Instructional Design

Assessment Methods

Assessments are used to check and evaluate students’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Assessment results enable students to check their own progress and performance and inform instructors on students’ progress toward achieving learning objectives and course […]
Instructional Design

Assessment Design and Development

When designing and developing a course, instructors need to create assessments that directly relate to the course’s learning outcomes. Also, instructors need to create a thoughtful and systematic grading structure that weights and distributes the […]
Instructional Design

Regular & Substantive Interaction

This blog post will explore new federal US Department of Education (DoE) regulatory definitions of distance education that require institutions to ensure regular and substantive interaction (RSI) between a student and an instructor(s).* We are […]
Faculty Development

FHSU Syllabus Template

Please see the updated 07/2023 FHSU Syllabus Template.   The slides below demonstrate the important components that should be included in a well-structured syllabus. White Yellow Geometric Business Plan Presentation by Dani Reilley
Blackboard

SafeAssign Review

SafeAssign is a plagiarism detection tool that is built into our Blackboard LMS. When you have students submit their assignments through Blackboard you can choose to have those assignments checked for plagiarism using SafeAssign (click […]