Updated 10/30/24 Research and articles about artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots such as Chat GPT have exploded onto the higher education scene, along with much concern and fascination. ATUS instructional designers developed the following considerations based...
Building a Wiki Page in Canvas
by Rebecca Borowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, WWU Getting bored with Discussion boards? Consider having students post to a wiki! A wiki is a website that can be edited by multiple users. Rather than discussion boards, where students reply...
Canvas: Annotation Option for Assignments
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of how to use the "annotated submission" option on Canvas assignments. For assistance with Canvas, see: Canvas Help at WWU.
Canvas: Office 365 Collaboration Option
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of how to add collaborations to Canvas through the Office 365 Canvas app. For assistance with Canvas, see: Canvas Help at WWU. See also: Getting Started with Teams - ATUS Using Microsoft...
First Steps: How to Begin Decolonizing Your Content
By Jennifer Riepl, Education Leadership & Inclusive Teaching Overview Working with Indigenous youth has opened my eyes to the many disparities in education, from elementary through university. As a math and history teacher, I’ve used many different textbooks and...
Getting Started with UDL
by Deborah Hanuscin, Professor, SMATE and Elementary Education, WWU Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that is designed to give all students an equal opportunity to succeed. The UDL framework offers flexibility in ways students access material...
Heuristic for Inclusive Instructional Design (HIID)
The Heuristic for Inclusive Instructional Design (HIID) was created by staff at the Center for Instructional Innovation & Assessment and Outreach & Continuing Education as a questioning tool that could be layered with other instructional design methods to help...
Making Group Assignments Manageable
by Rebecca Borowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, WWU Group assignments offer one way for students to engage with course content and demonstrate their learning. Collaboration offers an opportunity to students to refine their ideas and receive...
Panopto: Setting Up Student Video Assignments
Teaching Handbook: Open Educational Practices Toolkit
Explore this collection of ideas for using open educational resources in the practice of teaching, activities, assignments, as well as materials. Learn more about Open Educational Practices: WWU Teaching Handbook: Open Educational Practices Toolkit See also:...
Using Big Ideas for Course Design
What's the Big Idea? “Assuming for the moment that this course is the LAST course the students will ever take in the area (as opposed to the first in a series of courses), what core discipline-specific ideas/concepts do you want ALL students taking the course to...