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 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, and Eon-XR (virtual reality)
Could you benefit from any of the above? Book a course consultation for help with a specific issue, or just to learn how we can help you.