Designing your blended course involves much more than "converting" the content of an existing online or face-to-face course. There are things for you to consider while you are adapting your course, but as always, please contact COLRS for assistance with any and all steps of this process.
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) legally requires digital accessibility for all web content, including Canvas course materials. All items used in courses must be accessible, including:
The Canvas Syllabus Template is an HTML version of of the UIS syllabus provided by Academic Affairs. It contains elements of both the on-campus and online/blended syllabus templates. The template was created using Design PLUS, a toolbar for creating advanced HTML pages without knowing how to write code. Learn more about enabling and using the Design PLUS toolbar.
As this semester winds down, it is a great time to think about preparing and updating your course materials! COLRS multimedia specialist, Scott Moomaw, is here to support you in recording and editing lightboard videos for your classes.
This month, we’ve been focused on using plus-one thinking to improve assessments and grading practices. In order to see the fruits of your labor, you’ll likely want to take a peek at your gradebook. But does your gradebook truly reflect the work you and your students are putting into these assessments?
Does your gradebook truly reflect the work you and your students are putting into these assessments? The Center for Professional Education of Teachers at Teachers College, Columbia University shares the “F.A.C.T.S. about grading,” an acronym that presents guiding principles for good gradebook practices.
Join COLRS staff on Zoom to customize your gradebook calculations, views, and use advanced tools. We will use breakout rooms to keep your student data private.
This presentation will briefly introduce participants to generative artificial intelligence. After that, we will explore several generative AI tools for research and teaching. We will discuss ways to effectively engage with these tools and how we might use them in the classroom and other professional activities.
