Announcements: What’s your style?
One thing that stands out when we have the chance to look through subject sites is the many varied approaches to sending announcements. And that’s a good thing. We’re individuals, not robots,...
Category: Quick tips
Time to warm up your class?
Ice-breakers, or ‘warm ups’ are used widely when starting a workshop or group activity…but we often forget about them in online learning, and expect students to rush straight in and expose themselves...
Tips And Tricks live now for use in Subject Sites
Tips and Tricks are a collection of short video works providing current students accessible and useful information on: subject outlines, critical thinking, referencing, group work, asking questions, and residential school. Featuring insight...
Design approaches to I2 navigation
The navigation menu – content and layout design – is part of the landing/welcome when students enter a subject in Interact 2. Schools and subject coordinators have various approaches to this. Let’s...
Quick tip: Images in announcements – what’s the catch?
Announcements in Interact2 are a critical form of communication. There are some obvious steps to follow in planning your regular announcements, such as a greeting, a clear form of organization that makes...
Quick tip: Embed Twitter into Interact 2
Yes, there are quite a few subjects that are using Twitter as a rapid means of communication and information sharing. Once you have determined that this external tool is right for your...
Splash some Creative Commons onto your landing page!
Today I was asked how to find GOOD and FREE TO USE images to brighten up the landing page of a subject. A focus of the QLT work at CSU is supporting...
Discussion board structure – or getting the message out!
As you already know, Interact2 allows you to create a forum in which everyone in the subject can post threads and respond to other threads. You may well be creating several forums...
Quick tip: Helping students access CSUOutreach
CSU has so many services on offer for students…but they don’t always know about them. Many academics are now using ‘dynamic’ (or regularly updated) landing pages. If that’s you, you might want...
Quick tip: Online meeting in your navigation
Are you using online meetings in your subject? This quick tip might be just the thing you’re after to save your students some valuable time. A quick search across Interact2 sites shows...
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