Improve your online teaching, build something new, and use technology to engage students.
The Ideas Library
Check out our YouTube channel where we explore emerging elearning tools, and offer quick tutorials on tools and techniques that you can integrate into your own classroom.
Our team can help you leverage technology to ensure that your courses ares accessible, engaging, and effective.
Check out the services we offer to Simmons faculty and reach out to get the conversation started. If you get in touch, someone will respond to your request within 2 business days.
Accessibility audit
In the context of online courses, accessibility means ensuring that all students are able to use course materials and participate in course activities. Every student should be able to perceive and navigate course content, submit assignments, and successfully use course tools. As part of our accessibility audit, we will evaluate your instructional materials, generate an accessibility report, and provide you with specific tips and strategies for enhancing accessibility in your course.
Course cleanup
As courses grow and evolve over time, things can become a bit...messy. Outdated documents can pile up, and assignments that are no longer being used can take up space. The general flow of the course can lose its organization. As part of our “Course Cleanup” review, we will take a look at everything in your course -- from overall organization, to auditing documents and assignments, and visual neatness. We can help to make these changes, and provide tips and best practices to help you maintain your course.
Instructional design project
Have an idea for an elearning or multimedia asset for your course? Let us know what you’re interested in creating by submitting a request form for instructional design project assistance. We will set up a meeting to discuss the scope and timeline of your proposed project, and determine how we can best meet your project needs and objectives.
Not sure where to start? Check out our Ideas Library or sign up for an Instructional Design Consultation to get the ball rolling. This service request is open to all instructors (full time faculty or adjuncts) and is applicable to online, hybrid, or face-to-face courses.
Instructional design consultations
Interested in learning more about the possibilities for your course, but don’t know where to start? Request a one-on-one consultation with an instructional designer. Whether you are developing a new course, or looking for a way to enhance an existing course, we will work with you to develop a plan that fits your needs. Topics for these consults might include, but are not limited to:
Examining your current course and content organization
Creating an online course “blueprint”
Moodle course site design and development
Brainstorming activity ideas
Developing a plan for an instructional design project request
Identifying elearning tools to meet your educational needs
Discussing engagement strategies for an online environment
Additional resources
Online teaching toolkit
Need to teach online and not sure where to begin? The Online Teaching Toolkit is designed to help you jump right into the online course development process. In this self-paced course, you will learn some best practices for teaching online; how to migrate your existing course materials to fit within an online environment; and how to create opportunities for authentic student engagement.
If you are interested in being enrolled in the Toolkit, watch the course trailer and request enrollment. The course is offered through Simmons Moodle. It is completely self-paced, self-guided, and free.