Author: Stephanie Boychuk
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5 Ways You Can Help Students Navigate Your Course in VIULearn
In 2020, Stephanie Boychuk and the Academic and Career Preparation department conducted a survey of their students to learn more about how course navigation and structure can be used to support student success in online and blended courses. In this blog post, Stephanie summarizes five “quick wins” anyone can use to help students navigate course…
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Serving VIU Better: Why The Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning adopted a Request Tracking System
In the Beginning The Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (the Centre) was a very different place in 2013. During Fall semester, some faculty members at Vancouver Island University […]
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What’s New in VIULearn this Month? (March-April 2016)
Every month, VIULearn is updated by our software provider D2L. Most of the time you won’t even notice the changes, because they are behind-the-scenes improvements. An example of a behind-the-scenes […]
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Exciting Ways to Use the New “Not” Release Conditions
You may have seen my previous blog post where I talked briefly about the new “not” release conditions. If you were wondering what these conditions could be used for, I’m […]
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What’s New in VIULearn this Month? (February-March 2016)
Every month, VIULearn is updated by our software provider D2L. Most of the time you won’t even notice the changes, because they are behind-the-scenes improvements. An example of a behind-the-scenes […]
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Self-Paced Fully-Online VIULearn Orientations for Learners
VIULearn is a learning management system. Some teaching faculty members use it to upload files for you (like your course syllabus or their PowerPoints), create Discussions or Quizzes, and have […]
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Orientation to VIULearn (D2L) for Students – Spring 2015
Many courses offered at VIU use our online learning management system, VIULearn. To help prepare you for your course, VIU is offering free orientation workshops to VIULearn. These are available either […]
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day – May 15th
May 15th was Global Accessibility Awareness Day. As someone who spends a lot of time in online courses personally and professionally, I decided to take advantage of a free webinar […]
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Wiggio: Online Group Collaborative Learning Tool Coming to Desire2Learn
In March, Desire2Learn acquired the company, Wiggio (http://wiggio.com/). Wiggio creates a product to help students self-organize campus groups. Desire2Learn is working on integrating Wiggio into their Learning Suite, and are […]
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Gamification – Article and Infographic
I came across a couple of interesting (and short) articles on gamification in education today. Although the language makes it seem like gamification is something only the K-12 sector is […]
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Group Restricted Content
Are you interested in using the Groups tool in to create project discussion areas for students? Perhaps you have readings that only certain students should have access to, or what […]