What is UDL? Learn the key principles and philosophy of Universal Design for Learning crucial for applying UDL to your course design. Read More
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Course Schedule Design
The third item of your syllabus module is the course schedule. This document is designed to present your weekly topics, readings, resources and student deliverables. Instructors have different… Read More
Link, Embed, Attach – How to Add Resources
How to use hyperlinks, embedded media, file attachments, and other methods to connect websites, videos, documents, and more to your pages in Blackboard. Read More
Screen Level Chunking for Learning Content
Embrace the fact that online “readers” actually scan and skim. Build your content pages to strategically capitalize on this behavior. Long blocks of sentences are a sure-fire way… Read More
Screen Level Chunking for Instructions
Screen Level Chunking for Instructions Chunking is not only about making multiple pages or files. It also encompasses using formatting to organize content on the screen for optimized… Read More
Active Viewing Strategies
Viewing Technology and media have changed the way we teach and learn. To optimize students’ use of the media linked in your courses, you want to examine the… Read More
Reading Success Strategies
Reading One of the most common problems we encounter in online (and face-to-face classrooms!) is getting students to read the material. Poor reading results in a variety of… Read More
Vary Instructional Delivery
How we teach online is as important as what we’re teaching. When we vary instructional delivery and follow the principles of UDL, we get information across in a… Read More
Varying Assessments
To vary assessments simply means to offer different ways to measure your students’ achievements towards a goal or outcomes. Relying primarily on one form of assessment probably tells… Read More
How to Properly Add Nested Lists
If you have tried adding a sub-list (a nested list) inside of another list in the Haystack version of the accessible template, you may have run into some… Read More