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Engaging Students and Building Community Through Announcements

Posted: May 9, 2025 | Last Modified: May 9, 2025

With the bulk of the course content prepared before the term begins, announcements are your best opportunity to personally coach students, to motivate them through the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Online Teaching, Tools & Technology Tagged With: Announcements, Canvas, Instructor, Instructor Presence, Social Presence

Saving Announcements as a Page in Canvas

Posted: May 22, 2023 | Last Modified: January 25, 2024

As a policy, iDocs instructional designers do not copy announcements when we copy your courses from term to term. We've found that this often leads to confusion for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Online Teaching, Tools & Technology Tagged With: Announcements, Canvas, Instructor, Instructor Presence, Multimedia, Social Presence

Reusing Old Announcements

Posted: December 21, 2020 | Last Modified: January 25, 2024

One great way to build social presence is through announcements. An original announcement (one created in the course and not copied over from a previous course) has the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Online Teaching, Tools & Technology Tagged With: Announcements, Canvas, Instructor, Instructor Presence, Social Presence

Adding Videos in Canvas

Posted: October 1, 2020 | Last Modified: November 5, 2024

Students and instructors have a few options for how to record videos for their courses. Those options are below, but first let’s cover a few terms to get oriented to our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Course Design, Online Teaching, Tools & Technology Tagged With: Accessibility, Announcements, Canvas, Instructor, Instructor Presence, Kaltura, Multimedia, Social Presence, Student

Quick Tip: Delaying (and “Undelaying”) Announcements

Posted: September 23, 2019 | Last Modified: January 25, 2024

We've discovered a few things about how Canvas handles announcements that are vital in organizing your course and getting information to students in the way you mean to. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tools & Technology Tagged With: Announcements, Canvas, Instructor Presence, Quick Tips

Academic Integrity by Design

Posted: May 10, 2017 | Last Modified: January 25, 2024

The article “The New Cheating Economy,” published in The Chronicle of Higher Education (2016), tells the story of two Western Carolina University professors who set up a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Course Design Tagged With: Academic Integrity, Announcements, Assessment, Grades, Instructor, Social Presence, Turnitin

The Course Wrap Up

Posted: November 20, 2016 | Last Modified: January 25, 2024

You’ve spent weeks teaching a course, and the final week is here. You figure your students are busy preparing for their final project or exam, and the last thing they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Online Teaching Tagged With: Announcements, Fundamentals, Instructor, Instructor Presence, Social Presence

Elements of Meaningful Feedback

Posted: November 12, 2016 | Last Modified: January 25, 2024

One of the most important learner-instructor interactions occurs when instructors leave feedback. Online students need communication and feedback on their assignments. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Online Teaching, Standards, Tools & Technology Tagged With: Announcements, Feedback, Fundamentals, Grades, Instructor, Multimedia, Rubrics

Welcome them with a Note

Posted: October 3, 2016 | Last Modified: February 6, 2024

Imagine you are taking an online course for the very first time. You get logged in and you enter the course, now what do you do? When you logged into this course for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Course Design, Online Teaching, Standards Tagged With: Announcements, Fundamentals, Instructor, Instructor Presence, Social Presence

The Importance of Announcements

Posted: October 3, 2016 | Last Modified: January 25, 2024

Announcements are a primary means of establishing instructor presence in a course. This is the place where you can bring in your teaching expertise--your personal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Online Teaching Tagged With: Announcements, Fundamentals, Instructor, Instructor Presence, Social Presence

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Through the partnerships we form with our instructors, we develop engaging and interactive online courses. Here you’ll find ideas on course design informed by the latest research and teaching strategies that build community and instructor presence. We’ll also we share our experiences with technology, with Canvas, and with administering our online educational programs.

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