Instructional Design at Carleton

Would you like assistance or feedback on the design of your course, whether it is face-to-face, online or HyFlex? As instructional designers, we can work with you to address pedagogical as well as technical aspects of the following:

• Your course’s assessments
• Learning activities and content delivery
• Interactions with or between students
• How all these pieces fit together

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 AI-aware assessments to monitor student learning and provide ongoing feedback, evaluate student learning and performance at the end of a course/unit, and 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 digital tools within Brightspace (i.e., quizzes, discussion forums, gradebook, rubrics, learning analytics) and a select group of instructional digital tools external to, or integrated with, Brightspace (i.e., Zoom, Kaltura lecture recording tools, cuPortfolio, H5P, Wooclap, Feedback Fruits)