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This course is designed to support you with creating an accessible, equity-minded "Liquid Syllabus" using a Google Site.

Why is a Liquid Syllabus Important to Achieving Equity?

A Liquid Syllabus is an element of Humanized Online Teaching. To understand how Humanizing and a Liquid Syllabus support the affective dimensions of learning online and examine why this is important for achieving equity, we encouraged to view the following webinar archives.

The Anatomy of Learning: Sending Cues of Trust and Belonging from the First Click

Presented by Michelle Pacansky-Brock.

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Description: To navigate through these unknown and traumatic times, educators must be knowledgeable about how learning happens (and why it often does not). Recognizing the affective and cognitive dimensions of learning illuminates the need to understand our students as humans with rich, complicated stories and foster positive instructor-student relationships at a distance to ensure all students are poised for success. This session will illuminate how humanized online teaching provides a foundation of trust you can build upon in your course and foster rigor through empathy.

Humanizing Pre-Course Contact with a Liquid Syllabus

Presented by Michelle Pacansky-Brock

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Description: The weeks and days leading up to the start of a new term are filled with anxiety and nerves for many students. This term, your students will have even more questions about what to expect and how to get started. An equity-minded strategy to improve these barriers is to transform your syllabus into a Liquid Syllabus! A Liquid Syllabus is a mobile-friendly, public website with a friendly welcome video that is written with welcoming, validating language. While you may create a Liquid Syllabus using any website tool of your choice, this session will prepare you to create your own Liquid Syllabus with Google Sites!