eThink Academy

Summer 2021 Cohort

BEGINS JULY 14TH

This three-week course provides Moodle™ site administrators with an introduction to Moodle™ Site administration. This experience is designed to allow administrators to optimize their site, navigate plugin databases, troubleshoot Tier 1 support questions, as well as how to make use of site level settings, roles, and functionalities to keep your site running smoothly. Additionally, this course also features a module on site theme options (Boost, Clean, and Fordson), some of the unique options within each theme, as well as examples of how theme customization can be used to create an innovative, inviting, and easy to navigate experience for your users.

Summer 2021 Cohort

BEGINS JULY 26TH

Whether you are teaching synchronously or asynchronously, this four-week course is designed to provide you with the foundation to transform your face-to-face teaching practice to meet the needs and expectations of online learning. Together we will dive into topics including myths about online teaching and learning, developing an effective online instructional practice, needs of online learners, online course design practices, how to select and create activities in the online classroom, assessing online learners, and course management practices.

Summer 2021 Cohort

BEGINS AUGUST 17TH

As we design our courses and content, we must be vigilant in ensuring what we create is accessible for all learners, as well as inclusive of all learners. This course will focus on the fundamental aspects of inclusive and accessible design including an overview of what accessibility and inclusivity are, their importance, examples of accessible and inaccessible content, information about assistive technology, assessment considerations, differentiation, the Universal Design for Learning framework. A badge will be issued to learners who complete the required modules.