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In the Creator+ Community Group, you can follow instructional designer, Joey Stapleton, as he shares his tips and tricks for the Creator+ suite in his Developer Diaries series. Even if you haven't started using Creator+ yet, many of the best practices he shares can be applied to your own design and build processes!…
In What I Learned from AI Failures Part 1: My Hapless Plan, I laid out the context of a project I recently had the pleasure of working on. It was an ambitious 32-course uplift aiming to augment existing video lectures with succinct summaries as well as a series of formative and summative assessments. To achieve these…
While many of us rely heavily on multiple choice questions to evaluate learning, not all quiz questions are created equal! In this article, we will walk through several examples to learn the key characteristics of a good multiple choice question. 1. Provide ample context The root of your question should provide enough…
If you’re an educator, you know that failure is not something to be feared but rather one of the most powerful teaching methods around. You also know that artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a wave that has been washing our shores but a presence as sure as the tide. With all the outstanding successes and advancements…
Our English department is trying to combat students cheating on written assignments. I was hoping we could use Respondus on Assignments, but that isn't an option. I know instructors could set up a quiz with a Written Response option, but by the time students write several drafts of each component of an essay, they won't…
We all want learners to have the best possible learning experiences in the courses we design. However, designing and maintaining the best content takes time and effort, which is often in short supply. Wherever we invest that time and effort, it must have an impact. Starting with “Quick Wins,” or low-effort changes with…
Would anyone be able to recommend an app that we can upload a script and it makes a training video? We've already looked at Synthesia and Speechify, but we're hoping to find another option. Thanks in advance for everyone's ideas!
Is there a seamless way to gauge student participation in Brightspace? It should be authentically meaningful to students and instructors.
The first year I planted a kitchen garden, my plan looked flawless: neat rows, companion charts, perfect spacing. Then reality happened, shade I hadn’t noticed, soil that held water unevenly, pests that loved my plants more than I did. What saved the season wasn’t more seed; it was changing how I looked. Systems thinking…
Expertise often grows through cross-disciplinary partnerships, which is something that was never more true for me than when I was creating a media-rich course with looming deadlines and a number of stakeholders in the project. Our work felt less like it was rooted in a classroom and more like it was anchored in a…
Most of us who work as instructional designers didn’t dream of this career path when we were kids. Many of us thought of being teachers, but there are a few members of the Learning Services ID team who came from somewhere other than the classroom: one from Lululemon (seriously. Yes, we all asked her how she could possibly…
