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Harleen Singh, an Instructor from California State University Stanislaus, designed an in-class activity where students collaborate in small groups and explored two modalities for lesson planning: traditional manual methods and the utilization of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool of their preference. Through this process, they compared the effectiveness of these approaches and reflected on the role of AI in instructional design. The assignment’s objective was to collaborate and delve into the benefits and challenges associated with integrating AI into instructional design.

Juvenal Caporale, Instructor from California State University, Stanislaus, used Canvas announcements to share important goals, course topics, recorded lectures, materials, readings, resources, and reminders while also addressing common student questions. This approach ensured consistent communication, kept all students informed (including those who were absent), and provided helpful task reminders.

Stacey Aprile, an Instructor at CSU Stanislaus, developed an activity where students read about learning styles, take a self-assessment, and apply their learning to their future classroom. This activity provides students with the opportunity to connect with like-communication style peers for possible extension activities in the course.

Glenn Pillsbury, an Instructional Designer at CSU Stanislaus, provided this resource as an example of an alternate description of a complex infographic. The infographic describes the interconnected pathways that comprise the health care system in the United States. A simple alt text description would be insufficient and so a more detailed long description was created.

Instructor Grace Paradis from CSU Stanislaus, uses GoReact to help students learn about a topic that is not covered in depth during class. To strengthen the awareness of the topic, students are asked to further the GoReact discussion by asking critical thinking questions of their peers.

Kanwaljit Dulai, an Instructor from CSU Stanislaus, creates a home page with accessible button icons as evidenced by the green Ally gauge. The first five buttons link to important course pages with resources commonly visited by students. The last five buttons are proprietary to this course and link through to the five unit modules.

Kimy Liu, Instructor from California State University Stanislaus, created a homepage for her online Introduction to Special Education Program. The homepage included a recorded welcome message, nine buttons to help students navigate the Get Started Module. Within the homepage, there is a recorded Canvas Tour, and "Get to Know You" survey embedded.

Aprile Stacey, Instructor from CSU Stanislaus, starts each class session (module) with sharing about relevant/current world events related to the topics they are learning about in class. She also invites students to orally share or post in the "Course Questions Forum" if they have something to share.

Erin Hughes, an Instructor from CSU Stanislaus, provides a rubric to grade written essays and set clear grading standards/expectations for students. The point values can easily be added based on each writing assignment. The use of this rubric streamlines the grading process and allows for more comprehensive feedback on specific points addressed in the rubric.

Wura Jacobs, an Instructor from CSU Stanislaus, provides a visually interesting front page design that uses five header icons for easy access to course pages/content.

Heather Jarrell, an Instructor at CSU Stanislaus, designed a peer-to-peer engagement and active learning activity for use during a synchronous session. Working in groups, students identify distinguishing characteristics of periods of globalization throughout history. Students are placed in Breakout Rooms in Zoom, with each group completing one of five Jamboard pages containing sticky notes labeled “Fact” that they fill in with pertinent features of their globalization period, after which the entire class is quizzed on each globalization period using Zoom Polls based on the facts submitted by each group.

Yamini Bellare, Assistant Professor from California State University Stanislaus, created To Do Lists for each Module in the course. Each To Do List included direct links to the assignments to be submitted and their due dates. This page serves as a Welcome and Orientation page to each Module.

David Veloz, Assistant Professor from California State University Stanislaus, created a To-Do-List and discussion assignments for each module. Each To-Do-List included direct links to course lecture material, discussions, and assignments to be submitted with their due dates.

Julie Davidson, Instructor from California State University Stanislaus, created a logical, consistent, and efficient course navigation, making it easy for students to engage, stay on track, and contribute to the online learning community.

Danny Grimes, Instructor from California State University Stanislaus, created an online activity in Discussions Plus to help students interact while exploring the difference between correlation and causation. The activity requires students to create a post, reply to a peer, and respond to a reply. Using a humorous example, the activity encourages creativity and a lighthearted approach to problem-solving.