Instructional Design Interest Group
Spring Cleaning Part 2: Deep Clean Your Course
Interested in organizing your course material for the fall semester? There are many ways to do so with templates such as Quick Start Course Shell or creating module overviews and this article highlights several additional options. Implementing just one of these methods will make your course more accessible and sleek for fall.
DELTA Faculty Fellows Inspire Colleagues Across Campus
DELTA Faculty Fellows share experiences impacting and uniting colleagues campuswide. From publishing articles with practical best practices to presenting at conferences, they are dedicated to and embody teaching excellence.
Moodle 4: New Look and Feel
Moodle 4 enhances the user experience by simplifying workflow. The look is more streamlined and user friendly, even on mobile devices.
Digital Repositories: A Solution for Underrepresentation, Learning Challenges
Underrepresentation, a virtual gallery walk, and microscopic viewing ability are just a few instructional challenges that have been solved through digital repositories.
What’s New in Panopto?
Panopto's latest upgrade contains many new features including: audio description, student assignment submission (with Moodle plug-in for grading), reference copy and discussion notifications. All these new features enhance communications, accessibility and grading.
Alternatives to Alt Text
Alternative text (alt text) is an important tool to create equitable experiences for students. DELTA’s Accessibility Team shares best practices for creating alt text along with other tips to help with student engagement and success.
Metamorphosis Turns Into An Infestation
Extension Associate Terri Billeisen, Ph.D., provides updates on DELTA Grant work that created 3D interactive models of insects and how it has impacted student engagement and success. Also, it transformed her overall instructional mindset and made the transition to online teaching during the pandemic easier.
Closed Captioning: Not Just a Tool, a Legal Requirement
Save time while helping students succeed in your course by planning closed captioning for your class videos in advance. If one student is registered with the Disability Resource Office, an accuracy rate of 98% is mandated for closed captions. It’s not just a great idea, it’s the law!
NC State and DELTA Lead Group of Four Universities in Adaptive Learning Project
NC State Associate Professor Katherine Saul, Ph.D. shares her experience fully integrating Adaptive Learning (AL) and RealizeIt into her Engineering Dynamics course. This type of course design resulted in students completing five times more problems which fostered deeper understanding of concepts and individualized assistance.
Faculty Fellows Series: Perspectives from a HyFlex Classroom
In this story series, DELTA Faculty Fellows will explore the ways that they have implemented HyFlex this semester across a variety of subjects. The third installment is written by Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science Lina Battestilli.