When teaching a class online, how do you ensure your students are able to find the information they need to be successful in the course? Portuguese Lecturer Schirlei Silveira tackled this challenge by creating a simple, effective homepage to help her students navigate their online learning experience.
“By using a template, you can focus on your course materials and assignments rather than messing around with small details to make your Carmen course look good,” Pairis-Garcia explains, “and your students will benefit from a more consistent experience across their courses.”
Prior to the most recent change in Ohio State's learning management system, faculty who wanted to share resources between Carmen courses had few ways of doing so. Further, if departments wanted to create branded pages or standard assignments across a general education course, the processes for...