Students have varied experience with public speaking. Set your students up for success by providing them with a Presentation Outline Template to use for their next in-class presentation. Preparatory Questions This Presentation Outline Template created by the Instruction Design team contains essential preparatory questions to help students tailor their presentation…
Creating high-quality video lectures doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Follow these simple steps to plan, record, and share content that keeps your students engaged while ensuring accessibility for all learners. Step 1: Plan Your Content Need help identifying natural breakpoints? Contact the ID team! Step 2: Create Your Slides (Optional)…
Did you know? Did you know that as a faculty member at Daemen University, you have free access to JoVE, a world-leading provider of educational science videos, through the university library? This powerful resource offers over 21,000 videos across multiple disciplines, helping you bring complex concepts to life and enhance…
How to use the AI Design Assistant: The AI Design Assistant in Blackboard Ultra will soon be available to help faculty at Daemen University streamline course creation. This tool can assist in generating course structures, discussions, journals, rubrics, assignments, test questions, question banks, images, and AI-driven conversations. While this tool…
Student Support Resources: What are they and how do you use them? As faculty and staff we all take on the responsibility to provide students with the resources available to help them succeed and thrive at Daemen. When we work together to raise awareness of these resources and actively support…
Learning Management System: Blackboard Ultra A learning management system (LMS) is a software application that helps organize, create, manage, and track learning development programs or courses. The LMS we use at Daemen is Blackboard Ultra. There is a misconception that an LMS is only used for online or hybrid courses….
What are they and how do you request one? It can be time consuming and frustrating for faculty to rebuild the same course in Blackboard every semester. It can be equally frustrating and confusing for students when there is a lack of consistency in their courses in Blackboard. Master Course…
Did you know that Daemen is a Quality Matters University? Quality Matters (QM) is a voluntary, nationally recognized framework that helps universities improve the quality of courses. While not all courses have gone through the rigorous QM peer review process, the Instructional Design (ID) team has created resources to help…
Presentations can be tricky to grade, especially if the course content does not include public speaking skills. A presentation rubric provides clear guidelines and consistent evaluation with no ambiguity. If you are assigning presentations in your course, students will benefit from a rubric with clear expectations and feedback about the…
Learning Objectives: Why use them and how to design them. “By the end of this lesson/course, students will be able to…” When creating courses and lessons, we start at the end by defining what students will be able to do upon successful completion. Identifying clear learning objectives will allow you…