PDF Syllabus Builder at Sloan-C Emerging Technologies for Online Learning

My colleague Max Longhurst and I were thrilled to be have our presentation for Sloan-C's upcoming ET4Online symposium accepted-- PDF Syllabus Builder: Open Source Tool for Online Instructors, Course Developers and Instructional Designers.

We are even more thrilled that we have been asked to submit the PDF Syllabus Builder as an Effective Practice! The Effective Practice award winners will be announced July 21st.

How to develop a Canvas Course in 7 Steps

I've posted a video to YouTube demonstrating a development sequence that uses a design blueprint to create a course in Canvas--the learning management system from Instructure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVnFpa6fUDQ.


The design blueprint was created with the PDF Course Schedule Builder.

Guest Post on elearningindustry.com Blog

Christopher Pappas invited me to post about the PDF Course Schedule Builder on his blog.

Here's the post: How to create a "design blueprint" with a flexible learning sequence for your online course?

Thanks Christopher!

Adobe Education Team tweets about the PDF Course Schedule Builder

Got a nice surprise today when I learned the Adobe Education Team had tweeted about my posting of the PDF Course Schedule Builder in the Adobe Education Exchange: https://twitter.com/AdobeEdu/status/206083730698280960.

Providing Audio Feedback for Online Assignments with Adobe Acrobat Pro X

Here's a great video by Dr. Kathryn Herbst-Damm, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Nevada State College: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=994JjPHHgiU.

Audio comments can be a great way to bridge the time/space separation inherent in online courses.

PDF Assignment Builder videos approach 12,000 views

Between version 1 and version 3, the PDF Assignment Builder videos have been viewed 11,888 times as of today.

I've had a request for a version that has more than 25 question and answer fields, but it's pretty far down the development queue. Anyone want to collaborate? :)

PDF Course Schedule Builder

The PDF Course Schedule Builder (PDFCSB) is an open-source tool that was developed at the Faculty Center for Teaching (FACT) at Utah State University (USU). The PDFCSB allows instructors to create a schedule for an online course in a native PDF environment--Adobe Reader.

Click here for a "how to" video.

Click here to download the file.