Create the Course You Want, with Instructional Design
Would you like assistance or feedback on the design of your course, whether it is face-to-face, online or HyFlex format? As instructional designers, we can work with you to address pedagogical as well as technical aspects of the following (and much more):
- your course’s assessments
- learning activities and content delivery
- interactions with or between students
- how all these pieces fit together
How can we help your course reach its desired outcomes and experiences for students, instructors and teaching assistants? Book a course consultation through the Jira Support Portal for help with a specific issue, or just to learn how we can help you.
Below are some examples of what we can discuss or build with you:
Overall and Cohesive Course Design
- Provide feedback on a course’s syllabus/outline and learning outcomes
- Align a course’s learning outcomes with the assessments, activities and content
- Align a course’s outcomes and content with program/departmental outcomes and curriculum map
- Support instructors’ work to materialize their course design within Brightspace and other TLS-supported educational technology tools
- Provide an inclusive course environment through
- designing a variety of ways for students to interact, be assessed, and consume course material (Universal Design for Learning or UDL)
- diversifying course content (and other EDI improvements)
- ensuring accessibility of a course’s PowerPoint or Word documents, videos, text, or Brightspace course
- Develop templates for Brightspace, content, PowerPoint slides etc.
- Optimize the organization of a course’s content and assessments in Brightspace
- Improve visual design and/or create a custom look/brand for a course
Course Assessments, Activities and Content
- Strengthen students’ engagement with course content, course instructor and each other
- Select or design effective assessments to
- monitor student learning and provide ongoing feedback
- evaluate student learning and performance at the end of a course or unit
- incorporate student media creation and other innovative strategies
- Design or improve multiple choice questions
- Design experiential learning activities
- Design student group work and peer assessment
- Create engaging course content and activities via lesson planning
- Integrate Collaborative Indigenous Learning Bundles, library support or FUSION modules into a course
- Incorporate student feedback checkpoints
- Create a communication plan
- Incorporate active and experiential learning activities
- Facilitate students’ academic skills development, and/or transition to university
- Select and maximize use of
- instructional digital tools within Brightspace including quizzes, discussion forums, gradebook, rubrics, and learning analytics
- a select group of instructional digital tools external to, or integrated with Brightspace, such as Zoom, Kaltura lecture recording tools, cuPortfolio, H5P, PollEverywhere)
Could you benefit from any of the above? Book a course consultation through the Jira Support Portal for help with a specific issue, or just to learn how we can help you.