This Week in the LEC

The Learning and Educational Center recently released three new Canvas course templates that support effective online teaching practices for faculty and students. Each template can save faculty valuable development time while bolstering their effort to ensure that courses are quality-focused and accessible to all learners. Now that you are aware of the new template options, you may be wondering how to use one or more of these templates in your course.  Well, no wondering necessary! Let us help you navigate importing and taking advantage of the templates to suit your needs in our upcoming workshop on the New LEC 2021 Templates. 

On the first day of class, students are often intimidated by a syllabus that looks more like legal documents than an invitation to learn. This leads to students just ignoring its contents and instructors constantly saying, “it’s in the syllabus”. Infographics offer a visual option for communicating key course content in a way that is engaging and more memorable. Participants in this hands-on session will learn how to create infographics using Piktochart (Canva can also be used) to communicate course content and share ways to use infographics for learning.