This eLearning module has been developed for new students here at Meredith College. New students have access to this module through their FYE courses. If you have any questions or would like to have us add this module to your course, please reach out to us at idat@meredith.edu. The module and instructions Welcome to Meredith […]
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Layouts Layouts make configuring content easier, and faster, then ever. With this feature, creators have the option to arrange text, media, and even Creator+ Elements into panels. This opens your content pages to a new range of design possibilities. Instead of placing content into one long vertical page, you can now organize text and media
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Still Curious About Creator +? As the semester has successfully begun, we hope that your students are finding your course content to be engaging, interactive and as impactful as you designed it to be. If you attended the Creator + Sessions during Faculty Staff Planning Week, we learned about how the Creator + creation tools
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Welcome to Flip (renamed from Flipgrid)! To ignite your learners’ discussions, you will need to set up your Educator account, create a classroom (we call them Groups!), and share your first Topic. Topics are discussion prompts that you create and your students respond to that prompt with a short video. Video Intro Walkthrough the whole process for setting
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Around the world, instruction is increasingly delivered asynchronously online, with educators facing new challenges and searching for ways to maintain rigor and quality content. As online education has emerged across mainstream higher education, an increasing number of MPA programs are offering online courses, hybrid courses and entire degree programs online (Naylor and Wilson, 2009; Powell, 2007).
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Anonymous grading can help provide better outcomes for learners, instructors, and the organization because: Test-takers can receive results faster so they know the areas in which they’re excelling and areas where they can improve. A lot of logistical needs can be automatically taken care of for instructors and markers, enabling them to spend more time working with learners. The process
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The continuing rise in the cost of a college degree isn’t new news. Open Educational Resources are one of the tools that can be used to help students and their families. “Open Educational Resources (OER) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature
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Organize your assignments into categories to make it easier for users to navigate to the appropriate assignment. For example, you can create separate categories for course units, summative projects, bonus assignments, and individual submissions. Your new category will appear on the Assignments page only if there are assignments associated with it. Watch the video below to learn
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The Brightspace Content area is perfect for providing students with content but it can also be a perfectly boring list of links and text. Besides using images and videos to break up the text, you can also use this special method to embed a PDF preview right in the content area. You can see what
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