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DesignPLUS Video Training Series
Below you will find videos you can watch about DesignPLUS from the vendor, Cidilabs.
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DesignPLUS Training
This series of videos will take you through the process of getting to know DesignPLUS. This comes from our Train-the-Trainer series, and is aimed to cover a lot of the basics in a short amount of time.
DesignPLUS Summer School for Educators
This series of five 1-hour webinars is aimed to help educators learn how to use DesignPLUS in their own courses.
DesignPLUS Tutorials
These are stand-alone video tutorials for individual tools, elements, and processes in DesignPLUS.
Accordions, Expanders, & Tabs
With Accordions, Expanders, and Tabs, you can present content in a streamlined, clutter-free, and interactive way.
Callouts
Callouts spotlight important concepts and reduce your viewers’ cognitive load.
Columns
The Columns tool lets you design pages in an accessible and mobile-device friendly way.
Fill-in-the-Blank
The interactive DesignPLUS Fill-in-the-Blank tool provides formative learning experiences. They can help your learners practice concepts you're teaching and gauge their current understanding.
Flip Cards
DesignPLUS Flip Cards are a fully accessible way to promote learning through active thinking and recall. They allow you to create purposeful pauses for your learners through interactivity. Use Flip Cards for:
- flashcards
- vocabulary terms
- language learning
- deeper dives into concepts
- and more
Module Lists
DesignPLUS Module Lists provide your students with aesthetic link lists of your existing Canvas Modules, or interactive module content displays. You can embed them anywhere in your Canvas content where the Sidebar is available.
Order Items
The DesignPLUS Order Items tool encourages analysis, higher order thinking, and application of knowledge. Learners can drag and drop items into their correct order and receive immediate feedback, leading to better long-term retention of information.
Progress Indicators
Progress Indicators help students understand how much of the module they’ve already completed, and how much is left.
Quick Checks
Quick Checks are ungraded quiz questions that you can add to pages, announcements, etc., to provide students with an opportunity for informal self-assessment and immediate feedback.
QuickStart Wizard
The DesignPLUS QuickStart Wizard provides templates and content blocks which help you create Canvas home pages, syllabi, and assignments that are polished, accessible, and engaging.
Style Editor
The Style Editor helps you perform advanced editing of colors, borders, margins, etc. in your content. You can also build, save, and edit your own unique Quick Styles, for ease of use in the future.
Themes
Themes add an aesthetic boost to your Canvas content. This video will show you how to add a theme to your page, and select from the different themes available to you. You'll also learn how to mix and match themes for different components on the page, and how to create a Home page with the Front Page theme option.
You can find a complete listing of all these videos on the Cidilabs Video Hub.