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How This Tool Significantly Increases Student Engagement Online

Leveraging a tool to increase student engagement online in blended and distance learning courses helps improve student comprehension while supporting compliance. Engaging students is the biggest challenge for institutions administering online courses. Courses consisting solely of video conferencing presentations lack the group dynamics and calls to action necessary to keep students focused on, leading to… Continue reading How This Tool Significantly Increases Student Engagement Online

How To Create An Engaging Content Strategy For Blended Learning

Providing students with engaging content is the key to ensuring they can succeed in blended learning programs. Luckily, thanks to the abundance of information and content online, educators can think outside the box when creating engaging content for their students. In this post, we’ll cover methods for creating highly engaging content that you can provide… Continue reading How To Create An Engaging Content Strategy For Blended Learning

5 Ways To Use CourseKey Assessments

Assessments are a cornerstone of education. Not only do they provide an opportunity for students to showcase their learning, but they grant educators insight into student understanding of course material. While the education landscape has been permanently altered, the need for assessments remains unchanged. Within the CourseKey platform, schools have access to a versatile assessment… Continue reading 5 Ways To Use CourseKey Assessments

CourseKey + Canvas Integration: What You Need To Know

When schools adopt technology, they typically do so to improve their operational efficiency or alleviate the workload of faculty and staff. Often, schools end up with a menagerie of point solutions, and managing those various systems becomes time-consuming for faculty and staff. Luckily, integrating systems can help alleviate point solution overload. What is integration exactly?… Continue reading CourseKey + Canvas Integration: What You Need To Know

4 Tips For Retaining Your Top Performers In Online Courses

Retaining top performers becomes more difficult in online courses than in on-ground courses. Improve engagement and retain your performers with these four tips. Better engagement leads to better retention. This is not a new concept. Students who are engaged in their classes, programs, and with their schools are more likely to persist through to graduation… Continue reading 4 Tips For Retaining Your Top Performers In Online Courses

8 Tactics To Succeeding In Online Courses: A Guide For Students

Over 55 million students have been affected by widespread school closures in the United States due to the coronavirus pandemic. In response, many schools have asked their students to complete their programs online. While transitioning to online courses can be a big adjustment, there are a few tactics you can utilize to maximize your success… Continue reading 8 Tactics To Succeeding In Online Courses: A Guide For Students

Why Synchronous Courses Are Better Than Asynchronous Courses

When schools decide to move to online courses, they have two options they can choose from: synchronous courses or asynchronous courses. What’s The Difference? Synchronous courses are live online courses that are conducted in real-time. The instructor and students are together in the same session, which will begin and typically end at a fixed time.… Continue reading Why Synchronous Courses Are Better Than Asynchronous Courses

ED Guidance For Clock-Hour Offerings During COVID-19 Pandemic

On March 5, the Department of Education released guidance for postsecondary schools whose normal operations are disrupted by the COVID-19 outbreak, with a further update last week. While many schools prepped for the move to online assuming that delivering the content and working on a pseudo-credit hour system would suffice, the Department of Education has… Continue reading ED Guidance For Clock-Hour Offerings During COVID-19 Pandemic