Practical guides, frameworks and free courses for people who design online learning, with plenty of Canvas along the way.
Students should never have to guess where they stand on AI. This post shows how to add a short, specific AI use statement to every assessment, with a worked example for a Canvas assignment brief.
Prepare sets the scene for each week of an online course. Here is what to include, how to build it in Canvas and how…
Students rarely disengage in the middle of a task. They drop away in the gaps. The Engagement Cycle gives you three stages and nine…
A one-page week, Pre-In-Post and PANDA each shape how students meet your content. This post compares their strengths and limits and shows how to…
Video works best when it has a clear job at each stage of a course, not when it is dropped in as a default.…
Five practical tips for HE academics on designing Canvas rubrics that make standards clear, speed up marking and give students feedback they can act…
See how the PANDA framework lines up with Gagné's nine events of instruction and Bloom's taxonomy, and how to build course sites in Canvas…
Start here: a free one-hour course on finding your way around, earning shareable badges and getting a sandbox ready for the other courses.
A free four-week course on structuring, sequencing and pacing online learning with PANDA, Gagné’s nine events, Bloom’s taxonomy and Salmon’s five stage model.
A free four-week course on marking in SpeedGrader, using rubrics, the Grades page and reusable quizzes with item banks.
