Spring Clean into Blended Learning

While you convert your class into a blended learning experience is the perfect time to spring clean.

Broken links are a show stopper for any online portion of a course. Consider investigating if your Learning Management System (LMS) has a link checker, such as the one Canvas has. If you are working of a self-hosted WordPress site there are a selection of tools to use; I use Broken Link Checker.

Now is a good time to look through your text with fresh eyes. Typos stand out better after some time away from the text. You might also read it with that one student in mind this year – clarifying language is always an upgrade, especially if it shortens the text.

Also consider your chunking of text and/or directions. You want to avoid a scroll-fest yet provide logical chunks of information to each page. Check out