NEW: Online Learning Resource Center
Introducing the Online Learning Resource Center (OLRC) for Career and Technical Education, a collaboration between the Minnesota State Career and Technical Education office, the eight Minnesota State Centers of Excellence, and the Minnesota Department of Education.
The OLRC is a consolidated source of instructional materials to help secondary and postsecondary educators adapt to the need for ongoing remote or blended instruction. Learn more under Minnesota State System Resources.
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Faculty Resource Bulletin
Highlights of this week’s Bulletin include: From Your Colleagues: Don Cassidy: Course Organizer Amy Matthys: VoiceThread Demonstration Christine Petrich: Open Educational Resources FlipGrid Access New Course Design Template Zoom Security Refresher IHCC Peer Review Program Mentoring Groups: Course Design Instructional Technology Council Annual Conference – eLearning WeTeach Equity and Inclusion Free Virtual Training Series More […]
Help students monitor their progress with the Class Progress Tool
The Class Progress tool is beneficial through the way that it facilitates transparency with grading and monitoring progress. This tool allows students to view details of their progress with Grades, Content, Discussions, Assignments, Quizzes, Checklist(s), Surveys, Course Access, and Login History. 1. Click on the drop down arrow next to the Assessments tab. Then […]
The Usefulness of Checklists
Checklists in a course can be very useful in organizations for both the instructor and the student. Checklists provide a list of items that students can check off to ensure they completed certain steps of a task, instructions or even assignments. You can have multiple checklists in your course. An example of this is you […]
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