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Professional Writing Series: Researching Grants that Apply to You

Cost: $100 This badge explores how to successfully research and identify grants that apply to your professional career. Using open educational learning materials, students will learn about different resources available to them for grant research. Students will also learn about how to identify the most applicable grants for them or their company. At the…

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Human Resource Management: Managing Employee Performance

Cost: $100 This badge will provide students with essential information about employee performance management. They will be exposed to ways to appraise performance. Students will also learn about performance appraisal, 360-appraisal, appraisers, evaluation biases, ways to evaluated employee behaviors, competences, and contributions on the job. Activities in…

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Course availability and key settings

Home / Blackboard guides / Set up your LMS Blackboard guide · Set up your LMS Course availability and key settings The handful of settings important to set before students arrive. Two things cause most early-term trouble: availability and dates. Make the course available to students when you are ready, and set the start and end so students get access exactly…

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Communicate and model expectations

Home / AI literacy guides / Course AI policy AI literacy guide · Course AI policy Communicate and model expectations A policy only works if students understand and trust it. Putting a policy in the syllabus is the start, not the end. Talk through it early, explain the reasoning, and connect it to what students are here to learn rather than to a threat.…

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Course settings that matter

Home / Canvas guides / Set up your LMS Canvas guide · Set up your LMS Course settings that matter The handful of settings important to set before students arrive. In Settings, set the course start and end dates and the participation option so students can enter the course exactly when you intend, and not before or after. Confirm the time zone so due dates…

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Learning and using names

Home / First Day of Class guides / Setting the tone First Day of Class guide · Setting the tone Learning and using names Knowing students' names is one of the simplest, most powerful first-day moves. Few things signal that students matter to you as clearly as learning their names. It tells each student they are seen as a person, not a seat number, and it…

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Questioning and participation

Home / Teaching guides / Active learning Teaching guide · Active learning Questioning and participation Get more students thinking and talking, not just the usual few. The way you ask questions shapes who thinks. After posing a question, wait several seconds before taking an answer. That silence feels long, but it lets more students form a response rather…

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A first-day activity that sets the pattern

Home / First Day of Class guides / Engage and end well First Day of Class guide · Engage and end well A first-day activity that sets the pattern Do something active on day one so students learn how the class will work. If your first day is all you talking, students learn that the course is something done to them. If it includes a short activity where they do…

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Make the syllabus useful, not a recitation

Home / First Day of Class guides / Clarity and expectations First Day of Class guide · Clarity and expectations Make the syllabus useful, not a recitation Cover what students truly need, and let them read the rest. Reading the syllabus aloud, line by line, is the classic first-day mistake. Students tune out, and you spend a precious hour on something they…

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A clear overview and starting point

Home / Course quality guides / Clarity and usability Course quality guide · Clarity and usability A clear overview and starting point A quality course tells students clearly where to begin and how it works. One of the strongest predictors of a course feeling high-quality is a clear start. Students should be able to tell, immediately, where to begin, what to …

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Constructivism

Home / Learning theories guides / Constructing knowledge Learning theories guide · Constructing knowledge Constructivism Students build understanding; they do not simply receive it. What it says. Constructivism holds that learners actively build their own understanding by connecting new information to what they already know. Knowledge is constructed, not…

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Your course and its navigation

Home / Blackboard guides / Set up your LMS Blackboard guide · Set up your LMS Your course and its navigation Get oriented in an empty course and decide what students see. A Blackboard course opens to the Course Content page, where you build and arrange everything students use. Along the side you also find course areas such as Content, Calendar,…

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The three UDL principles

…guides / Universal Design for Learning Teaching guide · Universal Design for Learning The three UDL principles A practical framework for designing a course that works for more students. Universal Design for Learning is a framework for planning a course so it works for the widest range of students from the start, rather than retrofitting later. It rests on…

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Social constructivism and the ZPD

…guides / Constructing knowledge Learning theories guide · Constructing knowledge Social constructivism and the ZPD Learning is social, and the right support stretches what students can do. What it says. Building on constructivism, Vygotsky emphasized that learning is social and that students can do more with guidance than alone. The zone of proximal…

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Your course shell and navigation

Home / Canvas guides / Set up your LMS Canvas guide · Set up your LMS Your course shell and navigation Get oriented in an empty course and decide what students see. A new Canvas course opens to a blank Home page with a left-hand Course Navigation menu: Home, Announcements, Modules, Grades, and more. Students see a simpler version of that menu than you do. In…

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Pace with release conditions

Home / Blackboard guides / Build content Blackboard guide · Build content Pace with release conditions Decide what students can see and when, and guide them through it in order. Start with visibility. New content is hidden from students until you show it, which is useful while you build. One caution: set visibility before you set release conditions, because …

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Reset & Refocus

…modi ut aut quidem in. Quod reiciendis omnis qui nemo molestiae. Temporibus voluptatum ullam voluptate eveniet laudantium. Our Innovative Approach Learn to ask for help Successful students recognize that they do not need to do it all alone. Seek out guidance and help from staff, faculty, advisors, and your peers. "When the instructor offers you office hours,…

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Human Resource Management: Gender at Work

Cost: $100 This 0.5 credit hour course will provide students with essential information about gender issues in the workplace. Students will also learn differences between men and women, issues of masculinity and femininity, challenges for women in the workplace, legal and ethical issues related to gender identity, organizational responses to gender issues.…

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Professional Writing Series: Presenting Online

Cost: $100 This badge emphasizes how to successfully complete an online presentation. Using open educational learning materials, students will learn prepare presentation materials. Students will also learn about the proper etiquette of online presentations, discuss etiquette with their peers, and ultimately complete a successful online presentation for their…

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Professional Writing Series: Writing for Social Media

Cost: $100 This badge emphasizes how to successfully write for various social media mediums. Using open educational learning materials, students will learn how to develop a unique and professional social media tone that is directly applicable to their field of business. Students will also learn about the proper written composition for social media, discuss…

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