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Six Google Drive Add-ons to Enhance your Teaching Experience

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Arizona State University offers Google Apps for Education to all students, faculty and staff. Google Apps for Education is a suite of free, secure tools which include Gmail, Calendar, Documents and Sites. Recently, Google launched the “Add-ons” featu ...

Dynamic Design: Visual Elements of a Course

By: Matt Robinson

April 30, 2025

Co-writers; Lucy Wolski, is the Instructional Design Specialist for the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. Mary Loder is an Instructional Design Specialist at EdPlus at Arizona State University. Special thanks to Alisha Mendez and Bi ...

Best Practices for Large-Enrollment Online Courses, Part I: Managing student expectations, leveraging quizzes, and reducing grading load

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Whenever student enrollment capacity dramatically increases for an instructor, there are a number of common questions and concerns: How will the increased grading load be managed? How can instructors facilitate a discussion among 100+ students? ...

A Brief Guide to Producing Videos from Your Home or Office

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Written by Jessica Cole and Robert Behnke.The benefits of instructor-created video in online courses include increased student engagement and learning, increased instructor presence, and a greater student-to-instructor connection.[1-3] If you teach o ...

iPad Apps for Content Creation: Skitch

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

One of the things that I always hear people say about iPads is that it is great for “consuming” content, but not for “creating” content. I disagree that an iPad cannot be use for creating content and one of these apps that I use to create content is ...

Five ways to utilize ASU Libraries in online courses

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Check out these helpful tips on how you can leverage the powerful resources from the ASU Libraries in your courses. 1. Provide a Back-Up Plan For Books That Ship LateHave you come across the student who ordered a textbook, and through no f ...

Understanding WhatsApp as a Resource for Online Learning

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Written by Judith Dembaremba, Project Assistant with Global Academic Initiatives with help from Kim Welch, Instructional Designer, EdPlus Innovations and Emerging Initiatives.Please note: Arizona State University has not approved the usage of WhatsAp ...

From Confusion to Clarity: Crafting instructions that draw out students’ best work

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

August 11, 2023

From Confusion to Clarity outlines a simple design strategy for crafting instructions in which requirements, the process, and grading criteria are clearly communicated, student buy-in is strong, and performance exceeds expectations.“Clear instruction ...

Approaches to Online Office Hours

By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

March 1, 2023

In the last few years due to several factors, more and more students are taking to online courses. This is often exciting for many faculty and students as it can mean more flexibility, less commuting, and more work time spent in pajamas. However, man ...

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