In Practice: Unit-Level Chunking

From the Rubric

• Incomplete: Content is not presented in distinct learning units or modules. 

• Aligned: Content is meaningfully presented in distinct learning units or modules to aid learning.

• Exemplary: Learning units or modules are consistently structured and sequenced to reduce cognitive overload.

How to Implement

Use Canvas modules to consistently provide the relevant weekly content to students using clear and concise labels. Text headers can be used inside the module to provide added structure and organization to the different kinds of content, and those can be consistent for each module. Students shouldn't need to scroll through a bunch of different PDFs in Files, for example, hoping to locate the precise one they need for this week's assignment. Instead hide "Files," and provide the links to the necessary resources inside the corresponding week's module. This allows students to spend their time learning instead of searching.