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Don't Leave Your Learners Behind: Start Tackling Web Accessibility Now!
October 17, 2022
If you’re an educator, you're probably familiar with the concept of accessibility, which often manifests in the classroom in the form of accommodation requests to meet specific students' needs. If you're an online educator, you've hopefully heard about web accessibility, which requires adhering to specific guidelines when designing and providing materials via the web, reducing the need for student accommodations by anticipating and removing potential barriers to learning.
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From Mapping to Refining: Prompting Techniques for Generative AI
July 31, 2025
This piece builds on a previous piece where we explored the importance of keeping your desired outcome in mind when working with generative AI (genAI). We also highlighted the value of including specific data and contextual details in your prompt to align with your goals. If you haven’t read that piece, we recommend starting there:
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Generative AI: A Guide to Course Integration  
January 27, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) makes regular headlines, from debates about whether it will create or destroy jobs, to conversations about the ethics of its use in hiring or medicine, to its impact on higher education. The role and impact of AI in our lives is up for debate. One aspect, however, is not: employers are looking for graduates who know how to utilize AI to improve productivity in their roles. According to a recent article, 91 percent of hiring companies are looking for candidates with ChatGPT experience (Blum, 2023). Given the demand for AI experience in the job market, many educators are looking to integrate AI into their courses. But now comes the hard part—how do you do that? It is important to note that you will want to review your university’s policies on AI usage, especially as it pertains to the use of specific tools, prior to integrating AI into your course.
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Quiz Writing Best Practices
March 21, 2025
Quizzes are one of the most common forms of assessment. Instructors can use quizzes to not only test students but also check on their students’ progress throughout a course. When used effectively, quizzes can assess students in a variety of ways. This piece will provide recommendations and best practices for enhancing the quality of quiz content.
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Using Synchrony and Asynchrony to Support A Guest Speaker
May 10, 2024
Hosting a guest speaker is not only a great pedagogical tool; it’s also a vivid example of the ways one mode of interaction can enrich the other in a multimodal course. Guest speakers can participate in a class synchronously (e.g., by participating in a synchronous session via online conferencing tools or in person) and/or asynchronously (e.g., by recording video or participating in asynchronous discussion boards). Students find asynchronous guest speakers easier to access, while synchronous speakers offer more opportunities for back-and-forth interaction between students and the guest (Alebaikan, 2016).
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Engagement Series: Introduction
April 26, 2024
There are many components to consider when developing an online course; a key framework to inform course development is student engagement. The Glossary of Education Reform defines student engagement as “the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning or being taught, which extends to the level of motivation they have to learn and progress in their education” (Great Schools Partnership, 2016, para. 1). Developing and evaluating course content through the lens of engagement can help instructors create an environment that is conducive to learning and mastery of course outcomes.
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Accessible PDFs
June 14, 2024
Developing and delivering accessible instructional content—meaning content that students with and without disabilities can readily engage with and use—is essential to the success of an online course. While many accessibility standards and guidelines are broadly applicable, there are also specific considerations unique to different content formats and delivery modes. In this piece, we present recommendations for enhancing the accessibility of PDFs for students.
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Hyperlink Dos and Don'ts
December 12, 2022
When designing a course, you want to ensure that all students can access the websites and documents that you link to. Accessible hyperlinks are particularly important for students with screen readers, which read the links out loud. This piece contains best practices for writing and formatting accessible hyperlinks so that all learners can access the content that you have curated for your course.
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The Need to Rethink Assessments in the Age of Generative AI
January 27, 2025
The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) technologies has sent shockwaves through the education sector, sparking intense debates about academic integrity, assessment practices, and student learning (Roe et al., 2023; Rudolph et al., 2023; Susnjak & McIntosh, 2024; Swiecki et al., 2022; Yeo, 2023). Since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, educators have grappled with concerns about cheating and the potential erosion of traditional academic values (Gorichanaz, 2023; Sullivan et al., 2023). However, as our understanding of genAI capabilities evolves, so too must our approach to assessment and teaching (Lodge et al., 2023).
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Canvas Grading and Feedback: What Students See
January 29, 2025
Did you know that some forms of assignment feedback in Canvas are more obvious to students than others? Canvas has a Student View option for instructors to get a sense of what students are seeing in most general areas of their courses, but it can be challenging to determine what your actual students are experiencing when accessing your comments on their work or the rubric you’ve filled out for their submission.
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