December 2024 Introducing the Hybrid Course Reference Guide! Our new Hybrid Modality Reference Guide is here to support faculty in developing effective hybrid courses. Here’s what you'll find inside:  Comprehensive Overview: Understand hybrid learning, from definitions to federal guidelines.  Scheduling Tips: Learn strategies to balance in-person and online sessions, ensuring student engagement and workload balance.  [...]

November 2024 Bloom's Taxonomy Learning Activities and Assessments Bloom's Taxonomy is a widely-used framework that helps instructors design effective learning experiences. It outlines six levels of cognitive skills, progressing from basic to advanced: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create. By guiding students through these stages, we can promote deeper learning and critical thinking. Discover [...]

October 2024 HTML Templates: Chrome Extension! CCIT has developed Chrome extension to streamline the course build process. This tool allows course builders to quickly copy common HTML elements like accordions, tabs, and more! The Chrome extension makes it easier to maintain consistent formatting across your courses. Learn more in our short video tutorial below and [...]

September 2024 Faculty Five When we discuss making our courses accessible, it can sometimes feel like a daunting and abstract task. To make it more manageable, CCIT has organized our focus into five key areas: meaningful hyperlinks, pictures and images, documents & HTML pages, videos, and third-party resources.  By breaking digital accessibility down into these [...]

Welcome Back 2024 Welcome Week Trainings Welcome back! We hope you had a restful and rejuvenating summer. We're excited to collaborate with and support you as you prepare for another great semester! CCIT is pleased to kick off the semester with you! We are offering a dynamic series of professional development sessions designed to elevate [...]

Summer 2024 Inclusive Design   This resource from eLearning Industry, Breaking Barriers: The Inclusive Design Checklist, provides guidance through a framework to support inclusive approaches and foster diversity efforts. The framework is designed to be a holistic approach to support learning for all students.   The checklist includes: 1. Recognizing Diversity Remember the diverse demographics in [...]

May 2024 5 Teaching Tips Using Brain Science An article published in Tech & Learning explores the use of brain science when determining teaching strategies. This article applies to accessibility in a broader sense and refers to instructing all students regardless of identified disabilities. We proactively approach students to support their learning. Although this article [...]

April 2024 EdPuzzle Video Improvements! Faculty can allow students to control video speed in lessons—speeding up or slowing down! With this update, there is now a toggle option for on and off on Speed Accessibility when assigning lessons. If enabled, students will have the option to change the speed of the video.  When students are [...]

March 2024 Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone Book Focus By  Thomas J. Tobin & Kirsten T. Behling This book discusses Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is based upon neuroscience principles and extends these concepts to education. Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone is useful for educators, support staff, and academic leaders and provides tools for enhancing student [...]