Building better digital course content

A new package has been launched to make it easier for educators to build engaging digital courses for learners.

The D2L Brightspace Creator+ Package enables anyone to create course content using workflows integrated into Brightspace — saving course creators time, effort and money.

“We’ve listened closely to our customers, and we understand that educators want to create content independently, with no software coding experience. Administrators and instructional designers want a solution that is more budget-friendly, scalable without seat limits and simpler for learners,” said John Baker, President and CEO of D2L.

According to a study by The Grattan Institute, teachers in Australia worked longer than the standard 40-hour week, with the respondents working about 44 hours a week on average. Based on a 40-week school year, this equates to about 160 extra hours. In the same study, 92% of teachers also said they don’t have enough time to prepare effectively for classroom teaching, and 86% of teachers reported they didn’t have time for high-quality lesson planning.

With Creator+, the need to buy and train on expensive, interactive content authoring software is reduced, helping users to cut back on administrative work.

With Creator+, users can more easily:

• use ready-made templates to quickly build content that is highly accessible and mobile friendly;
• enhance comprehension with the Practices tool, keeping learners engaged with a wide variety of practice exercises and question types;
• create a consistent visual experience with the Content Styling tool;
• insert flexible and highly accessible interactive elements in courses without any coding skills;
• help reduce complexity with seamless screen recordings through the video Capture App.
   

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