Transform Your Online Teaching into an Inspirational Learning Experience

At WIDS, we believe online teaching should do more than just deliver content - it should inspire and facilitate real learning. WIDS can help you build a comprehensive framework for your online courses by guiding you through key considerations such as how to:

• Provide clear guidance for lerners
• Create collaborative learning environments
• Ensure effective communication
• Easily publish to your Learning Management System 

Provide clear guidance for learners

In online learning, students often need to manage their own progress without direct oversight from an instructor.  

Empower students to do so by using our software features to easily provide them with critical roadmaps for their learning experience before it begins:

• WIDS Learning Plans empower learners by:
  • Providing a strategic blueprint for their learning journey
  • Offering a variety of learning activities for diverse needs and learning styles
  • Preparing learners to perform successfully in assessments
  • Equipping them with the tools to take charge of their own education
• WIDS Syllabi empower learners by providing valuable course information before class begins, including:
  • Course participation guidelines
  • Attendance policies
  • Grading policies
  • Course schedules

Our software makes empowering learners easy—educators can use our editable templates and comprehensive libraries of guidelines to create learning plans and syllabi with ease.

Create collaborative learning environments

Say goodbye to monotonous online classes!  Use the WIDS Learning Activity Library to provide innovative learning activities that:  

• Go beyond the typical “read, watch, test” approach.
• Engage your students in active participation.
• Support collaboration for various learning styles.  

Clearly communicate performance expectations

Enhance your learning outcomes and help your students achieve higher performance with Performance Assessment Tasks (PATs) that:

• Offer clear directions and realistic scenarios.
• Ensure students apply their knowledge inauthentic, real-world situations.
• Provide aligned, detailed scoring guides. 

Effortlessly Publish to Your Learning Management System

WIDS Publisher can easily create, share and integrate multiple documents, in multiple file formats, for multiple Learning Management Systems:

• Documents include Syllabi, Learning Plans, PATs, and more.
• File formats include HTML, PDF, and MS Word®.
• WIDS can integrate with Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas, D2L, and more. 

Our key considerations and software features can help your transform online learning into an inspirational learning experience as enriching as it is effective.  Contact us to discuss our services, including customized workshops tailored to your specific online learning environment.

WIDS (Worldwide Instructional Design System) is a nonprofit organization that provides curriculum design software, consulting, and training services.  Download the free WIDS Online Design Quality Standards.