Moving Your Courses Online
Overview
In making the transition to online teaching, you will have many choices to make. Here, we offer you some resources to help guide your decision making. Deciding on what’s needed in your course should be guided by your course objectives and what you can reasonably expect of your students and yourself.
In planning your transition you will need to consider the following aspects of your course:
Pedagogical Considerations
Developing an Online Course: Resources
- Developing an Online Course
a tutorial by: Chantale Giguère the E-Learning Community of Practice Lead - Online Course Design Checklist
- Course Outline Considerations
- Best Practices for Teaching Online From Arizona State University
Accessibility: Design Your Course for All Types of Learners
- For students with accommodations through the Student AccessAbility Centre (SAAC):
- Online learning and accommodations from the Centre Collégial de Soutien à l’Intégration
- Visit the SAAC Virtual Campus website
- Universal Design for Learning Guidelines from CAST.org
- Resources for Ensuring Accessibility in Remote Learning
- Design Your Course for All Types of Learners
Additional Resources
- Advice from l’Association québécoise de pédagogie collégiale (AQPC)
- SALTISE – offers a collection of online teaching and learning resources
- Video on Asynchronous Teaching, from the Professional and Graduate Education Office at Mount Holyoke College
- Queens University: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Options for Content Delivery
- Best Practices: Create Engaging Educational Videos
- Using Microsoft Stream to store and distribute video files
- Using Microsoft Stream in Office 365 to convert video files to links By: Magda Mlek (Nursing)
- Online Course – Recording Consent Statement
- A series of webinars from APOP – Office 365: Teach, Learn, Assess and Collaborate with SharePoint, Teams and Planner
- Meeting your class on Zoom through Lea (Online Classes Module)
Engaging Students in Online Activities
Using Zoom to Facilitate Learning Activities
- Zoom Online Learning Checklist Credit: University of Texas at Austin
- Getting Started with Video Breakout Rooms
- Managing Video Breakout Rooms
- Polling for Meetings
- Zoom Tutorials and Live Training
- Online Course – Recording Consent Statement
Using Moodle to Facilitate Learning Activities
- Teaching with Moodle (When you click this link, you will be prompted to enter your username and password) is a self-paced online course developed by Madeleine Bazerghi (OAD)
- Using Moodle Assignments
- Using Moodle Discussion Forums
- Helpful resource: Example of a generic discussion board rubric
- Other Useful Moodle Activities
Using Lea to Facilitate Learning Activities
- Creating Assignments in LEA Courtesy: Vanier College
Using H5P to Create Interactive Content
H5P enables you to create richer content. With H5P, authors may create and edit interactive videos, presentations, games, and more. H5P integrates with Moodle.
- Use H5P to Create Interactive Videos in Moodle By: Selma Hamdani (Psychology) You will be prompted to log in to MS365 to view this video.
- Integrate Interactive PowerPoint videos and myDALITE into Moodle, using HP5 By: Yann Brouillette (Chemistry) and Carmen Leung (Chemistry)
- Add Interactivity to PowerPoint presentations in Moodle, using HP5 and YouTube By: Yann Brouillette (Chemistry) and Carmen Leung (Chemistry)
Other Resources for Engaging Students Online
- 10 Online Teaching Tips beyond Zoom: Teaching Without Walls Episode 1
- Perusall: An Over view By: Carmen Leung (Chemistry)
- Visual Classrooms Platform presentation By: Magdalena Mlek (Nursing) and Brendan Joyce (Concordia)
- myDALITE a peer-instruction platform developed at Dawson By: Yann Brouillette (Chemistry)
- Discussion Board Rubric – Example
The Dawson Active Learning Community (DALC) and SALTISE have developed scripts for teachers who want to engage students actively in an online environment:
Assessment
Evaluating student work with an online platform engenders many institution-wide challenges ranging from policy to technology. Changing the way in which we evaluate a student’s achievement of the competencies using an online platform is an opportunity to revisit and re-imagine, in creative ways, how we certify competencies.
This document offers alternative assessment ideas and includes an inventory of tools available for faculty according to the type of evaluation desired. You are invited to explore these tools to determine which is most suitable to the evaluation you would like to use with your students. These include the College-supported platforms and others which you may wish to explore to determine the pros and cons of each tool.
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Assessment in Moodle:
- Building quizzes
- Quizzes and assignments By: Rafael Scapin
- How to create questions using question bank
- How to create a quiz or exam in Moodle
- How to import questions from a word document into a Moodle question bank
- Example: creating biology discipline question using drag and drop
- Example: creating a drag and drop onto image question using text
- How to create a rubric
- Creating quizzes – Part 1 By: Magda Mlek (Nursing)
- Creating quizzes – Part 2 By: Magda Mlek (Nursing)
- Creating quizzes – Part 3 By: Magda Mlek (Nursing)
- Enter extra test time for an individual student By: Magda Mlek (Nursing)
- Using Workshops for Peer Assessment
Assessment in Lea:
Creating a gradebook in LEA-2020 Courtesy: Vanier College
Creating evaluation charts in LEA-2020 Courtesy: Vanier College
Join a Dawson Online Discussion Group!
A Yammer discussion group dedicated to online teaching and assessment has been started. It is a place where we can share our experiences (including assessment) and help each other find solutions to challenges. If you would like to join this online community of practice, please click here.
