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Course Design & Development
Course Design & Development material.
Content
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Canvas Syllabus
Upload your syllabus on the Syllabus page in your Canvas course. Make sure to include a message about new online components and expectations.
Course Content
Use Canvas Modules to organize things like pages, files, assignments, and discussions in one place. Add Canvas Pages to your module to present text, hyperlink to files, and embed videos.
- Files can be linked on a Canvas page or Module
- All files uploaded to your Canvas course can be seen via the file tab in the course navigation unless you hide this tab from your course navigation.
- Images , recorded videos, and YouTube videos and can also be embedded on a Canvas page.
- You can hyperlink to other webpages to direct students to external sites they read or use in their assignments.
- Contact UAB Libraries for assistance in linking library resources to your Canvas course. View their Teaching resources here.
NOTE: The UAB eLearning Online Course Template can provide structure for setting up your online course in Canvas. This template includes a homepage, Course Information module, UAB Policies and Resources module (with UAB policies, technical information, etc.), and weekly modules for weeks 1-15. This can be imported into your Canvas course shell and edited for your course. Request the eLearning template by filling out our eLearning request form.
Assessing
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Canvas Assignments
Add Canvas Assignments to your course modules so that you can collect students work and record grades in the gradebook.
- Choose online as the submission type
- Choose what you want students to submit (files, text, media, URL).
Canvas Discussions
Add graded Canvas Discussions to your course modules so that students can respond to a prompt with text, files, or video/audio.
- Allow threaded responses so that students can easily reply to other classmates.
- Check that students must post before seeing replies so that they do not copy their classmates.
Canvas Quizzes
Add Canvas Quizzes to your modules to provide formative or summative assessment. Multiple choice, true/false, matching, and fill in the blank question types can be automatically graded while short answer and essay can be graded in the Speedgrader. Instructors can utilize Online Proctoring services to increase academic integrity.
Respondus
Respondus Lockdown Browser & Monitor is great for low-stake exams as it requires students to use a webcam to record their test taking session.
- Enable Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor for the desired quizzes in Canvas
- Communicate to students they need to download Respondus LockDown Browser
ProctorU
ProctorU is good choice for high stakes exams as it requires students to schedule a session with a live online proctor. Please contact the Division of eLearning (select 'other' as the technology) to make arrangements for using ProctorU in a transitioned course.
- Create ProctorU account
- Schedule ProctorU Training
- Schedule Exam with ProctorU
- Communicate to students how to schedule their session
Course Delivery
Teaching Modalities
- On-campus: Courses that deliver all of the content 100% via on-campus face-to-face meetings.
- Web-Enhanced: Courses that deliver less than 25% of content/instruction online.
- Blended: Courses that deliver at least 50% of content/instruction online.
- Online: 85% or more content/instruction is delivered online. Most online classes do not have an in-person component; if they do, these components consist of events such as residency requirements, orientation sessions, or team-building activities.
Asynchronous
- No live components
- Self-paced – students complete coursework on their own time
- Format offers flexibility for students
- Weekly deadlines 14, 10, or 7 weeks sessions
Synchronous
- Virtual live lectures, discussions, group work via Zoom/Microsoft Teams
- Required attendance
- Weekly deadlines 14, 10, or 7 weeks sessions
- Model offered during the pandemic
Communication
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Canvas Announcements
Post announcements with written or recorded messages for your students. This is the fastest way to communicate with your entire class from within Canvas. Suggest to students that they check their notifications settings to allow for copies of announcements to be forwarded to their email address. You will need to make sure your course is published for your students to see the announcements.
Canvas Discussions
Setting up a Canvas discussion is an easy way to allow instructors to discuss course content or assignments with students, or for students to share work or ask questions.
Grading
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Canvas SpeedGrader
Most assignments can be graded using SpeedGrader. Or, you can navigate to the gradebook in your course space and enter scores directly by clicking on a cell and entering a number.
- Instructors can view the files submitted by students and provide feedback in the form of annotations, rubrics, and/or comments
- Students can access this feedback in Canvas
- If your Canvas quizzes contain text-response questions where students write in an answer, you'll need to grade those questions in SpeedGrader.
- Instructors can pull their grades directly into the Banner Student Information System (SIS) from the Canvas Gradebook during the Grading window.
Course Technology
Enahnce your teaching and student learning experiences by utilizing technologies that support your course goals.
A full list of approved academic technologies is available on the eLearning Academic Technologies webpage.
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- Proctoring at UAB
- Video Conferencing (Teams & Zoom- to build)
- Polling at UAB
- Video Solutions
- Lecture Capture
- ePortfolio
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Who owns the copyright in materials created by faculty?
The copyright in materials created by an employee depends upon the nature of the employee’s efforts relative to UAB, specifically the extent of university resources used, whether the materials were assigned to be prepared by UAB, and whether the materials were developed with support from an outside sponsor, all as described in the Copyright Policy and in the questions and answers below.
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Does the term “materials” include distance learning materials?
Yes.
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Are there any circumstances under which I can require UAB not to use materials that I have created?
Yes, but not where you have been assigned or directed to create the materials by UAB. See “University assigned efforts” in the Copyright Policy. You also may not be able to stop UAB from using materials you created when you developed the materials during work supported partially or in full by an outside sponsor through a contract or grant with UAB. See “Sponsor supported efforts” in the Copyright Policy.
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What if I was not specifically assigned or directed to create the materials, but I used some UAB resources?
If your use of UAB resources was “substantial,” then you may not stop UAB from using the materials, and UAB would have “shop rights” to use them as described in the Copyright Policy. “Substantial use” is defined in the Copyright Policy to include the commitment of staff, faculty or material support in the creation of the materials, but does not include the ordinary use of the University’s libraries, faculty time, faculty offices, departmental office equipment, routine secretarial support or University owned personal computers.
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If I must share my rights in materials with UAB, what is the extent of UAB’s rights?
As described above, UAB has the right to use materials created by you where you were assigned or directed by UAB to create them, you created them as part of a grant or contract between UAB and an outside sponsor, or where you used substantial UAB resources. UAB’s rights here are called “shop rights.” As defined in the Copyright Policy, “shop rights” means a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or make derivative works of your materials, for educational or research purposes only. See “Shop Rights” in the Copyright Policy.
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What if I created materials in which UAB would not have shop rights, but used them in a UAB course?
UAB would have “shop rights” in the materials as described above.
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May I use materials I have created at another institution while still employed or otherwise engaged or teaching at UAB?
Generally, no, except for scholarly presentations. Consult with your supervisor.
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What about after I leave UAB?
Once a faculty-creator is no longer employed by UAB, he or she may make use of lectures that he or she created while employed at UAB for his or her own scholarly, non-profit, non-competing purposes.
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What are some examples of materials in distance learning in which UAB would have” shop rights” and be permitted to use as described above?
- Digital productions or reproductions of course lectures.
- Other course content (such as digital slides, digital presentations, class assignments).
- Materials prepared with significant assistance from eLearning or from UAB videographers.
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What are examples of course materials created by faculty that are likely to violate UAB’s conflict of interest or conflict of commitment policies?
- Accepting employment outside of UAB, for the purpose of creating online or other teaching materials without written approval of your chair or other supervisor.
- Creating online teaching materials (for example, course lectures) for a course intended to be taught outside of UAB that the faculty member might reasonably be expected to teach while at UAB, without written approval of the appropriate chair or other supervisor.
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Can faculty use the UAB brand on courses and/or course materials they own and, as permitted, teach elsewhere?
No. Faculty may not use UAB trademarks or other identifying designations without the prior written consent of the University on courses or course materials they teach elsewhere.
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When should faculty and the University sign an agreement or contract indicating ownership rights of a course, course module, or course materials intended to be distributed online?
Whenever there is any ambiguity regarding the ownership of intellectual property in which University resources are being used, a written agreement designating who will own the intellectual property must be entered into before the creation and/or development of the material in question.