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    Accessibility as a quality standard

    Home / Course quality guides / Accessibility and improvement Course quality guide · Accessibility and improvement Accessibility as a quality standard Accessibility is a core quality standard in every major framework. Every major quality framework treats accessibility as a core standard, not an add-on. A quality course is usable by every student: real…

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    Make expectations clear and transparent

    Home / Teaching guides / Reaching every student Teaching guide · Reaching every student Make expectations clear and transparent Spell out the purpose, task, and criteria so every student can succeed. Students differ in how well they can read the unwritten rules of college. You can level that by being explicit. For each assignment, state its purpose, meaning …

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    Start with backward design

    Home / Teaching guides / Course design Teaching guide · Course design Start with backward design Plan your course from outcomes, not from the materials you happen to have. It is tempting to plan a course by gathering materials: last term’s slides, the readings, a few activities. A course built that way answers the question “what will we cover?” The question …

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    Social constructivism and the ZPD

    …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 development is the…

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    Cognitive load theory

    Home / Learning theories guides / Memory and attention Learning theories guide · Memory and attention Cognitive load theory Working memory is small, so how you present material matters. What it says. Cognitive load theory builds on the limits of working memory. Learning suffers when too much is presented at once or when the presentation adds needless…

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    Behaviorism

    Home / Learning theories guides / Behaviorist roots Learning theories guide · Behaviorist roots Behaviorism Learning shaped by consequences, and what it still offers teaching. What it says. Behaviorism focuses on observable behavior and how consequences shape it. Behavior that is reinforced tends to recur; behavior that is not tends to fade. It says little…

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    KSARN Brand & Style Guide

    01 · Color Core palette Sunflower Gold and Prairie Charcoal carry the identity. Bright gold is for fills, bars, and buttons, never as small text on white. For gold text or links on white, use Deep Gold. Sunflower Gold #F0BE00Buttons, accent bars, highlights Deep Gold #8A6B00Links & gold text on white (AA) Prairie Charcoal #211C17Body text, dark sections…

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    Student View and publishing

    Home / Canvas guides / Maintain across terms Canvas guide · Maintain across terms Student View and publishing See your course as a student, then make it visible with confidence. Student View, found in Settings, drops you into the course as a test student so you can see exactly what students see, submit assignments, and check that release conditions behave.…

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    Your course shell and navigation

    … 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 Settings, the Navigation tab lets…

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    Organize for your modality

    Home / Canvas guides / Build content Canvas guide · Build content Organize for your modality Choose how to organize your course based on how you teach it. The single biggest structural choice in your Canvas course is how you organize it. Your teaching modality is the deciding factor. By teaching modality we mean how the course is delivered: in person, online…

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    Build with Modules and Pages

    Home / Canvas guides / Build content Canvas guide · Build content Build with Modules and Pages Build your course body with structured units instead of decontextualized files. Modules are containers that hold content in order. Pages are flexible content pages that combine text, images, and embedded media. Build a module per unit, or per content type if that…

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    Images, color, and contrast

    Home / Canvas guides / Accessibility Canvas guide · Accessibility Images, color, and contrast Make images and color choices that work for every student. Every meaningful image needs alt text that conveys its point in a sentence. Purely decorative images can be marked as decorative so screen readers skip them. Never let color carry meaning by itself. “The…

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    Home page and syllabus

    …LMS Canvas guide · Set up your LMS Home page and syllabus Give students a clear front door and a syllabus they can use. The Home page is the first thing students see, so make it orient them: a short welcome, what to do first, and a link straight into the first module. Post your syllabus as a Canvas Page built with real headings, rather than only a PDF…

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    Choose your grading scheme

    … grades post. Decide your grade scheme early: straight points, or weighted Assignment Groups, for example exams 40 percent, projects 40 percent, and participation 20 percent. Set it before the first grades post, because changing it midstream confuses students and shifts totals they have already seen. Confirm that the running total students see matches what…

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    Set up announcements

    …up announcements Plan announcements in advance and schedule them to post on their own. A short weekly announcement that says what is happening, what is due, and links straight to it keeps students oriented and cuts down on email. You can write these while you build the course and schedule them to post on the right date, so the communication runs without you …

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    Routines and the physical room

    …after group work, and a consistent way of ending all reduce friction and free your attention for teaching. Students relax into a class whose rhythm they can predict. The room itself is a tool. Where you stand, how seats are arranged, and how you move all shape attention and participation. Moving around the room keeps students engaged and lets you notice …

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    Engagement as prevention

    …and applying, leaves far less room for problems than a long passive lecture. Engagement is the first and best classroom-management strategy. Break up stretches of delivery with regular active moments, as the teaching foundations and learning theories courses describe. When students are busy with meaningful work, attention stays where you want it and…

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    Canvas guides

    …to find exactly what you need. Want the full path and a certificate? Take the course. AllDesign your courseSet up your LMSBuild contentAssess and quizSet up the gradebookAccessibilitySet up communicationMaintain across terms Design your courseStart with backward designPlan your course from outcomes, not from the files you happen to have.Design your…

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    Blackboard guides

    …to find exactly what you need. Want the full path and a certificate? Take the course. AllDesign your courseSet up your LMSBuild contentAssess and quizSet up the gradebookAccessibilitySet up communicationMaintain across terms Design your courseStart with backward designPlan your course from outcomes, not from the files you happen to have.Design your…

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    Student Preview and availability

    Home / Blackboard guides / Maintain across terms Blackboard guide · Maintain across terms Student Preview and availability See your course as a student, then make it visible with confidence. Student Preview lets you enter the course as a test student and see exactly what students see, submit work, and confirm that release conditions behave as intended.…

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