You are happy about teaching this upcoming semester! You have your course content and feel good about the curriculum delivery. However, there is still something missing. Visually, the course could be more appealing, intriguing, and inviting for students but, how? You can work with an instructional designer to achieve the ideal visual enhancements for your […]
Category: Online Educators
Join the Fix Your Content Day Accessibility Challenge
In our continued commitment to providing students an inclusive learning environment, FIU is participating in the nationwide Fix Your Content Challenge on Thursday, May 20th, 2021. On that day, we are asking all faculty to use Ally to identify and fix course content to meet accessibility standards. Ally is an accessibility tool that is integrated […]
Improving Engagement in Discussions
Have you ever relied on a handful of students that you know will get the engagement in discussions started? It happens. While discussions are a great way of assessing knowledge, they target a certain type of student: the confident and talkative ones. These students aren’t afraid to be wrong, ask questions and speak up, but […]
3 Most Common Course Development Mistakes
The semester has started, and you are on your way to becoming a Canvas pro! In order to help you on this quest, we have put together a list of the three most common development mistakes instructors make while managing their course shells. Familiarize yourself with these development mistakes in order to avoid them! #1 […]
FERPA & Social Media: Protecting Student Records
When I first began teaching online, I considered using a social media hashtag for class activities and related content. To make it a simple and cohesive conversation, I thought to use the course prefix and number, i.e. #THE4400. When discussing with a colleague, it was suggested this could potentially violate FERPA. Unsure about this, I […]
6 Pro-tips for your Zoom Classroom
With so many FIU instructors using Zoom in their remote and online courses, we’ve decided to compile a list of helpful tips and tricks to add to your Zoom toolbox. Enabling Zoom in Your Canvas Course You’d like to use the Zoom integration in your Canvas course, but don’t see it in your left-hand course […]
Building Interactive Quizzes with H5P
As millions of educators are settling into virtual learning, they are exploring different strategies like interactive quizzes to engage students. Instead of attempting to fully re-create in-person teaching, remote learning challenges instructors to think creatively and build a virtual environment for students to thrive. This summer, I had the pleasure of collaborating with Professor Ines […]
Prepping for Fall 2020 Online
The Fall 2020 semester is just around the corner and FIU Online wants to make sure you’re aware of the steps you need to take to get your online course ready. If your course has been previously designed with the FIU Online team, you can take the following steps to complete course preparations for the […]
Introducing Inclusive Practices into Online Courses
One of FIU’s best qualities is its genuine way of bringing students from different cultures and backgrounds together every semester. These students bring their own perspectives, ideas, and experiences into our classrooms. Being able to empower these differences in the classroom can greatly benefit our students. It can help keep them engaged, as well as […]
Remote Teach Ready for All
In preparation for the Summer B 2020 & Fall 2020 terms and ongoing efforts to preserve academic continuity, we would like to inform you that the Remote Teach Ready (RTR) Micro-credential has been extended to the entire FIU instructor community. Remote Teach Ready Training By participating in the RTR Workshop, attendees will have the opportunity […]