June 25, 2024

Teaching Tool: Using Intelligent Agents to Foster Student Success

Reading Time: 2 minutesLearn how you can use the eConestoga tool Intelligent Agents to support your teaching.

Categories Effective Teaching/Student Engagement & Communication/Teaching for Learning Comments: 0

November 22, 2023

Utilizing eConestoga with your In-Person and Synchronous Teaching 

Reading Time: 3 minutesExplore your teaching approach and engage your students from the very beginning by unlocking the full potential of your eConestoga course shell – not just as a digital extension but as a dynamic tool that enhances your student’s learning experiences.

Categories Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching Comments: 0

January 6, 2023

Access and Use eConestoga

Reading Time: 2 minutesAccess and learn about eConestoga, the LMS used to provide the Essential Elements for all courses.

Categories Effective Teaching/New Faculty

June 23, 2022

What is Asynchronous (Online) Teaching 

Reading Time: 5 minutesReflect on your teaching activities for a fully or partly asynchronous course.

Categories Effective Teaching/Online Asynchronous/Reflective Practice

May 10, 2022

Options for Delivering Feedback

Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Joel Beaupre and Jesslyn Wilkinson Try some of these strategies to effectively create and share feedback online. Many of these strategies can be used for peer feedback activities as well. Summative Feedback Using Quick Eval in eConestoga Use highlighters, markers, inline comments and text, or other features to add feedback directly to a submission in eConestoga. You can also...

Categories Grading & Grading Tools/Quality Assessment

August 19, 2021

Engaging Students as Fully Online Learners

Reading Time: 4 minutesCommunicate and interact with students regularly, even when you never meet for scheduled class lessons in real time.

Categories Effective Teaching/Modes of Delivery/Online Asynchronous/Teaching for Learning

May 27, 2021

Making the Essential Elements Work for Students

Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Sherri Steele and Joel Beaupré, Teaching & Learning Consultants At Conestoga, students are supported in their courses through the use of a Learning Management System (LMS) which has been branded as “eConestoga” and is built within the Desire2Learn (D2L) platform called Brightspace. The organization and structure of courses within eConestoga create a foundation for the overall learning experience for...

Categories Effective Teaching/Lesson & Course Planning/Online Synchronous/Teaching for Learning

April 29, 2021

Overview of the Essential Elements

Reading Time: 3 minutesAll courses must provide Essential Elements to students. Learn more about the Essential Elements for your course.

Categories Effective Teaching/Lesson & Course Planning

July 15, 2019

Tour eConestoga

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMany students are brand new to eConestoga, especially in their first semester. International students usually have limited experience in using a Learning Management Systems (LMS), and domestic students may be more accustomed to using other versions of one. Show students how to navigate your eConestoga course.  Below, Laura demonstrates how. Encourage students to download and install the D2L Brightspace Pulse...

Categories Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching