Course Content

General Tips

• Break down your content into clear and concise units of information. Smaller content chunks are easier for students to absorb.
• Switch between different mediums of content delivery to increase the engagement and accessibility of your course.
• Keep your content accessible for everyone by following accessibility best practices (e.g., adding closed-captioning and transcripts for video, being mindful of how you use colours, tables, and links).

What are the benefits? (Canvas)

• Since Canvas courses are automatically created each term, you can log in and immediately start filling your space with content-rich modules.
• You can organize the modules by weeks, days, topics, or whatever makes the most sense for your context.
•  Each module can contain text, multimedia, and files, as well as discussions, assignments, quizzes, and other interactive learning activities. This content can be dragged and dropped in the desired spot in your module sequence.
•  You can hide modules until a specified date or set up prerequisites that students need to complete before accessing the next module.

What are the benefits? (Kaltura)

• With Kaltura, you have unlimited file storage and can upload individual media files up to 5GB each.
• You can add in-video quizzes to engage students as they watch video lectures. Outcomes of these quizzes can count in your Canvas Gradebook as assignments, if you want to track student performance.
• You can improve accessibility for students using Kaltura’s auto-captioning, which streamlines adding closed-captioning and video transcripts to your media.

What are the benefits? (LOCR)

• You can add copyright-compliant articles, books, web links, and media resources to your course content.
•  Once the content is approved, you can directly link to it in or outside of Canvas, and only students registered in your course will be granted access.
•  You can also have PDFs of specific book chapters made to share with your students.

What are the benefits? (UBC Blogs)

• UBC Blogs allows content to be posted publicly, meaning that people outside the course can engage with it. Students can also continue accessing content after the course is over.
•  Content from other UBC tools can be embedded into UBC Blogs, such as pages from the UBC Wiki or videos from Kaltura.
•  You can provide direct access to UBC Blogs in Canvas through your Course Navigation or as part of a module.

What are the benefits? (UBC Wiki)

• You can enable quick collaboration on content for your students, without having to do much setup technical setup.
• Having students learn the markup language used in UBC Wiki provides an additional real-world skill, as this language is also used for other wiki platforms like Wikipedia.