UM3D: Instructional Impact Blog
for Designing, Developing, and Delivering Courses
This week we’re highlighting ways to ensure your Canvas courses and materials are ready for your online, on ground and hybrid students. There’s nothing quite like facing an empty Canvas course shell, especially when you know you’ve created the course previously in Canvas. That’s why you need to watch: How Do I…Copy the Content…
Media production can be daunting, especially if you are not sure whether or not a certain media option fits your course. Perhaps you are wondering how to incorporate PowerPoint presentations in your online course or if it is possible to facilitate a guest lecture. While these are challenging questions, you are not tackling them alone.…
Assessments, whether in an on-ground course or online, are important tools that help instructors and students understand how content is being mastered and where there are gaps in understanding. As you think through the design of your course, consider how you might ask students to show their mastery of learning objectives and course goals. While…
A professor emailed us the other day: “My graduate students tell me there’s such a thing as cheating websites. What are the main ones so I can keep on top of them?” We don’t have a list. Cheat sites are like wack-a-mole– when one closes, another pops up in its place. So, it’s fairly difficult…
Delivery Mode: Hybrid Grappling with what type of teaching delivery mode will suit you best? While this is not an exhaustive list of the pros and cons associated with teaching a mixture of on ground and online (hybrid), it does highlight some of the common affordances and challenges. There is no “one size fits all”…