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Create an GREAT first impression
Create a meaningful first 5 minutes, 5 hours, and 5 days of your online course.
Download the free guide!
4 Tips for Variety in Discussion Boards
Discussion boards are an essential tool for online learning. They provide a platform for students to exchange ideas, collaborate, and engage in meaningful dialogue, so it’s important to have a variety of discussion board strategies to target different forms of learning.
Grab 4 simple strategies for diversifying the discussion board prompts and responses for FREE!
Habit Tracker
The scheduled interactions you maintain throughout the semester significantly impact how your learners engage with course materials and each another.
Download the FREE habit tracker to plan and track your scheduled interactions with your students.
Preparing for Dynamic Student Feedback
We talk a lot about how to give feedback to students, but what about how to receive it?
Encouraging student feedback effectively evaluates and improves teaching, course design, and student engagement efforts.
Download a FREE guide with strategies to collect and respond to dynamic student feedback.
Micro Habits to Support UDL
Make your online courses more inclusive and accessible for our students with a FREE Micro Habits guide!
LEveraging the LMS to Motivate Students
Build your online courses to include more fun, interactive materials. Discover how to leverage the LMS features to create social learning experiences, utilize mobile notifications, and automated feedback for your students.
Sample Mid-Semester Survey Questions
Download a sample set of 6 customizable, mid-semester survey questions in a few different formats…
An editable Google Doc
A Microsoft Word file
A fully-built Canvas survey file — if you use Canvas as your Learning Management System (LMS) that you can import directly into a Canvas course.
Layered Communication
Discover how to enhance student engagement by learning how to maximize course communication and layering it with your existing course schedule.
Download the FREE guide to help devise a plan for layering communication over that schedule through a series of phases.
Course Alignment Worksheet
Align your course to promote purposeful instruction, appropriate assessments, and meaningful student engagement techniques.
Download this FREE step-by-step course alignment worksheet.
Welcome Introduction Video Script
An introductory video is a great way to introduce your course and yourself to your students. However, those videos can be hard to make –especially if you're camera-shy, or tend to wander off-topic!
This guide is designed to help you prepare for your recording and organize your thoughts so that you have a workable outline that can be customized for any class. Download it now for FREE!
Actionable Feedback phrases
The art of giving clear, intentional, and valuable feedback can be challenging.
Download these FREE action phrases , which are intentionally designed to help you better envision the type of feedback to incorporate in your next assignment.
Feedback Action Words
It can be hard to find the right balance between giving positive feedback and providing constructive comments. Incorporating these action words can clarify students' next steps.
Download this FREE list of action words to help track progress and keep students accountable for what they should keep doing and what needs improvement.
Pause and Reflect Worksheet
This worksheet is designed to help you reflect on your UDL practices, grow your skills, and be confident that you're translating UDL best practices into practical course application.
Download it for FREE!
