Engaging, interactive materials are at the heart of effective online and hybrid learning experiences. Whether learners participate in hybrid courses or exclusively online learning, these types of activities create understanding and increase course participation.
SoftChalk makes it easy to build courses that appeal to students and professors alike — below are ways that SoftChalk activities can be incorporated into modern teaching strategies.
SoftChalk offers a variety of activities that instructors can use the lessons to build their lessons.
Interactive Lessons
Distance education is a popular alternative to traditional in-person courses, and it’s seemingly not going anywhere. However, maintaining student engagement in an online environment can be challenging. SoftChalk offers a variety of solutions to this problem, emphasizing active learning strategies that encourage participation.
Rather than relying solely on traditional lectures, today’s instructors leverage interactive and multimedia-rich content to reinforce key concepts before, during, and after course sessions. Interactive lessons play a crucial role in supporting student engagement and comprehension.
SoftChalk offers a variety of activities that instructors can use the lessons to create their lessons including:
- Crossword puzzles
- Sorting activities
- Image matching challenges
- True/false quizzes
- Ordering activities
- Timelines
- Slideshows
- And more
Digital Learning Resources
Using interactive resources as part of your online or hybrid courses can help increase student engagement and course attendance. Empowering students to listen to course lectures or complete interactive quizzes when and where they’re most comfortable is essential to success in distance education. Resources such as videos, interactive outlines, and self-paced quizzes help make this possible.
During face-to-face class time, you can reference the resources students viewed online. In a distance learning setting, you can even ask students to add their own contributions to image maps or timelines. These strategies foster engagement and help students master course material instead of passively absorbing it.
Hybrid classrooms built on digital interactives allow you to address the needs of all students without a significant impact on your workload.
Addressing Diverse Learning Needs
Students have diverse learning styles, and instructors strive to support student success by offering adaptable resources. Digital interactives provide a flexible solution to meet these varied needs without significantly increasing instructor workload.
SoftChalk allows educators to create a range of activities and assessments based on course materials. For example:
- Visual learners can explore materials through accordion activities.
- Students who prefer reading independently benefit from connections activities.
- Interactive assessments allow for immediate feedback and reinforcement.
By incorporating these tools, instructors can create a more inclusive and dynamic learning environment that supports all students.
Formative Assessments
Assessments are an important part of any course. Traditional pop quizzes can be useful for evaluating what students have learned, but digital tools offer a way to assess learning before a course even begins. With digital tools, you can use the same types of quizzes before face-to-face courses to improve learning outcomes.
But how can you assess learning before class begins?
Instead of waiting to quiz students during a session, instructors can post pre-class assessments that gauge student understanding in advance. With SoftChalk, instructors can review results instantly to adjust lesson plans accordingly.
Additionally, quizzes can be designed to offer immediate feedback, prompting students to try again if they select the wrong answer or providing hints to guide them toward the correct response. Delivering these interactive assessments before class helps students prepare more effectively and fosters meaningful discussions during live sessions.
Progress Tracking and Analytics
As an instructor, you want to encourage student engagement and improve learning outcomes. But you also have to dedicate time to tracking student progress. SoftChalk’s digital tools make it much easier to stay on top of quiz grading and progress tracking.
Quizzes and other interactives are automatically graded so you can assess student needs and meet them where they are. With this instant feedback, you’re empowered to plan face-to-face class time that focuses on areas where students are struggling. SoftChalk is designed to save instructors time while supporting excellent learning outcomes.
Improved Accessibility
Making education accessible to all students is essential. It can be challenging to meet the needs of different learning styles or students with disabilities in a traditional classroom setting. In a hybrid classroom, you have the opportunity to offer a variety of activities that meet diverse student needs.
Offering these activities is a great way to ensure that all your students can master course material. SoftChalk can also help you build an equitable, inclusive classroom environment. Students who are able to access study materials and work on mastery with interactives that appeal to them will feel like they truly belong in your courses — and their learning outcomes will improve too.
Experience SoftChalk Today
SoftChalk is packed with flexible, engaging, and customizable activities to jumpstart student learning. Start your 14-day trial today to see how SoftChalk can impact student engagement at your institution. You’ll find easy-to-use templates and resources to guide your institution’s learning journey.
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