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Sarah Wendorf gives a quick 5-step tutorial on how to design great-looking header images for your Moodle course using PowerPoint as a graphic design tool.

Jessica O'Reilly discusses a Learner Preferences Survey that she administers to students at the start of each semester. In this post, she has made adjustments from a previous version of the survey.

In this post, Jess reviews Cambrian’s major contributions to eCampus Ontario’s Technology + Education Seminar + Showcase (#TESS2019) event, which took place from November 18 - 19 at the Globe and Mail Centre in Toronto.

Danielle, Graphics & Web TFEE Student in the Hub, shares her five favourite ways that faculty can connect with students from the first day onward.

Graphics & Web TFEE student Danielle reviews how balance and alignment can make all the difference in a document, slideshow, or other designed piece.

In this post, Jess introduces a progressive rating scale checklist format that describes the progressive actions that learners should take in order to achieve, for example, a passing grade, a “B” grade, or a perfect mark; sometimes referred to as

New to online teaching? Meet Tony.

Mel’s been introducing us to a variety of rubric formats (long-form, simple, single-point). In this short post, Jess talks about using checklists for assessment purposes. She explains the main differences between checklists and rubrics, along with some of the benefits

Strategic use of blank (empty) space might seem like a small thing, but as Jess states, is actually a hugely important design consideration that has an immediate impact on the readability, accessibility, and overall aesthetic of your instructional materials.

There are many benefits to using audio in online, hybrid, and HyFlex courses. In this post, Jess O'Reilly describes some of the advantages of combining audio with text and how she has incorporated audio into an online course.