Cidi Labs Webinars

Design Matters LIVE! Monthly Webinar Series

Introducing our new monthly webinar series, focused on bringing research and action together for better online courses – brought to you in conjunction with our very popular Design Matters Digest. Register now!

Conquer Canvas Course Clutter

July 23rd at 1pm MT

Are your Canvas courses full to the brim with file and content clutter? Never-fear: Cidi Labs has tools to help you put on your cape and combat course clutter that easily accumulates from term to term. Don’t let the villain of limited-time stop you! Come learn about the importance of clearing the clutter and watch Cidi Labs instructional designers employ TidyUP’s task-shrinking superpowers to quickly identify and remove unused course files, streamline remaining files, and develop organizational systems that makes maintenance a breeze.  

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Be a Student Support Superhero

August 20th at 12pm MT

Ever received learner questions and thought to yourself “I covered this in the Syllabus!”? Join us to learn how to use tools from Cidi Labs to engage your task-shrinking superpowers and embed just-in-time support for your learners. Our instructional designers will show you easy ways to be the student support hero you hope to be, helping learners navigate the course seamlessly, equip themselves with resources they need, and check their understanding. Together, these tools from DesignPLUS may reduce the number of distress signals you receive and boost your learner’s own superpower–their agency!

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Designing for a Sense of Belonging

September 24th at 1pm MT

Have you ever felt limited in your ability to create an inclusive, empowering learning environment in a digital course? Then join us to discover how to wield the power of Cidi Labs tools to support a sense of student belonging and combat stereotype threat lurking behind every corner. Whether you’re an administrator, instructional designer, or educator–DesignPLUS has the tools to unleash your barrier-blasting powers. With a league of expert research to draw from, Cidi Labs instructional designers will show you how a few simple actions in DesignPLUS can launch your course into a realm of inclusivity by promoting ambient-belonging.

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Scaling Course Design Best-Practices

October 22nd at 12pm MT

Do you daydream about what design feats you could accomplish if there were only more of you or your team? Then we’ve got a session for you! Enter the vortex of possibility to learn how to achieve course design feats in terms of speed and course quality that you didn’t know were possible. Scaffold an entire course in minutes? ZIP! Embed instructions for using templates or meeting quality course standards exactly where needed? BAM! Easily monitor course quality and readiness? POW! Join Cidi Labs instructional designers to see game-changing tools in action that can give you super-stretching reach to scale best practices from right inside Canvas.

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Templates to the Rescue!

November 19th @ 1pm MT

Have you been hoping to unlock the secrets of designing effective templates for your institution and users? We’ve heard your call! Cidi Labs instructional designers are here to walk through research-backed design and implementation considerations to help you tailor templates to your needs. Of course, they’ll also show you how to use DesignPLUS tools to give you the superpowers needed to support instructor use, scale with speed, and streamline nearly-endless customization. Join us to learn how a well-designed template solution could be the hero your courses need!

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Additional Webinars:

Are you finding your accessibility journey daunting? Hoping to accelerate your progress but feel limited by existing staffing and resources? Imagine if you had the right tools to guide your way and smooth your path to accessible Canvas courses! Join Cidi Labs as we showcase ways our clever tools can dramatically reduce your accessibility workload, give you the data you need to assess and manage that work, and accelerate your content remediation and accessible design processes. Plus–our tools document your journey so you can demonstrate your progress toward accessibility milestones! Whether you’re just beginning to map out a new accessibility strategy or you’re well on your way, this session will help you trek back to your institution with practical solutions for easily navigating the terrain to accessible courses–for all learners!

In Case You Missed It:

We’ve got quite a stockpile of awesome webinars full of inspirational stories, best practices, and hands-on demonstrations. There’s no need for FOMO, because you can view all the recordings!

Capturing and Scaling Canvas Course Design:
Boston College's Story

In this webinar,  Tim Lindgren and John FitzGibbon from Boston College’s Center for Digital Innovation in Learning (CDIL) shared their best practices for scaling effective course design practices beyond online programs to on-campus courses.  Kenneth Larsen, co-founder and Chief Instructional Designer of Cidi Labs, joined them to show how DesignPLUS has offered Boston College a flexible and affordable framework for developing a library of custom themes and content blocks for the BC community. They shared about getting faculty buy-in, rolling tools out to different colleges, and how DesignPLUS continues to evolve to help faculty design more accessible, engaging courses at scale.  

Extreme Makeover: Canvas Course Edition

Our most entertaining webinar by far, this fun session features the “renovation” of 3 real Canvas courses leading to jaw-dropping reveals. Get inspired for your own DIY Canvas course makeover!

Unlocking Course-Ray Vision: Designing Like a Superhero!

Educause Demo Day: Accessibility Solutions

Cidi Spotlight: Homepage First Impressions

Upcoming Events

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November 17, 2024
  • OLC Accelerate- Orlando

    Dates: November 17, 2024 - November 21, 2024  

November 19, 2024
  • CITE Conference, California- https://www.cite.org/

    Dates: November 19, 2024 - November 21, 2024  

  • Templates to the Rescue! Webinar- https://cidilabs.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wAxWJqjNQw-caVei5B4VFw

    Dates: November 19, 2024  1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

December 3, 2024
  • DET/CHE, California- https://detche.com/

    Dates: December 3, 2024 - December 6, 2024  

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