After your course has concluded, use this checklist to review your course. Prepare for the next course offering by making important tweaks and adjustments that help avoid curriculum drift. You’ve
What is Quality Feedback? Feedback is key for student learning and must be prompt and meaningful so to correct issues and reinforce strengths (Ericsson, Krampe, &Tesch-Römer, 1993). Effective faculty use
Review some of the checklists, templates, and examples to learn more about how you can impact student melt.
With the proliferation of AI tools, it can often feel overwhelming as new ones seem to emerge daily. Determining where to begin when integrating these tools into your course development,
During this session, you’ll learn more about what causes melt rate and collect strategies and practical tips to engage with students in weeks zero and one of your online courses.
In the online, constructivist learning environment, rich and robust collaborative knowledge construction occurs on the discussion board. The constructivist approach shifts the focus from the instructor to the students, and
Here are some strategies you can consider when planning for how you’ll communicate with your students on discussion boards.
Good Grading! A Guide to Giving Great Feedback This special edition webinar series provides guidance to faculty seeking to improve their course retention rates and student persistence. By the end
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Making Meaningful Connections With Students This special edition webinar series provides guidance to faculty seeking to improve their course retention rates and student persistence. By the end of this webinar,
Personalized interventions can be sent to students in Week 1 of a course. These recommendations assume that students are asked to complete a personal introduction in the first few days of the semester so that you can begin to track their progress.
This recorded webinar series provides supplementary guidance to faculty working with Risepoint’s instructional designers and those seeking professional development opportunities to improve their online teaching and learning skill sets. By
Online learners are navigating a rapidly evolving professional and educational landscape. In the 2025 Risepoint Voice of the Online Learner
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Time on task is the amount of time that learners spend, with both direct and indirect instruction, engaged with learning
Whether you’re exploring Microsoft Copilot for the first time or refining how you use it across workstreams, this article breaks
Alt text, short for alternative text, is a simple but powerful way to make your online course more accessible for
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