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Content Creation Best Practices: Plagiarism Do's and Don'ts
How to Create a Strong Lesson Format
1. Write a title and short description for each lesson. When learners enter your course, they will see all of the individual lessons listed (shown below). Use this space to summarize, explain the key points, or to highlight the benefits of the ...
Tips for Differentiating Content
As you build your lessons, keep in mind the following: “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” - Albert Einstein Whether Einstein actually said this or ...
Tips for Incorporating Videos
When it comes to videos, the thing is, there is no one video length to rule them all. However, the most recent research suggests that the optimal length of an online course video is 6 to 12 minutes. Additional data suggests that the majority of ...
Best Practices for Our Unique Audience
Appropriateness Is the content appropriate for consumption by an incarcerated audience? Does it contain nudity, violence, drug use that would not be suitable for an incarcerated population that stands at higher risk for relapse into ...
What is Spaced Learning and How Do I Use It?
Spaced repetition is the strategic repetition of past lessons in predetermined intervals after the learners learned it the first time. This helps combat the dreaded Forgetting Curve (it’s a real thing!) Think about trying to learn a new language. If ...
How to Create Strong Assessment Questions
As every course and learning objective is unique, different assessments can be used to determine whether or not a learner achieved the learning objectives and reached the desired goals. In some cases, an assessment may not even be necessary! Perhaps ...
How to Define Course Objectives
Let’s pretend you sift through all of your videos, PDFs, audios and images you have already created (pat yourself on the back, they’re fantastic!) You quickly realize that you created them with a purpose, now it’s just a matter of putting words to ...
Video: An Introduction to Edovo for Content Partners
Looking to learn more about how your content and curriculum can be made available to a national incarcerated audience? Start here to quickly learn more about the Edovo Learn app for incarcerated Learners, Edovo Editor for content creators, and the ...
Why can’t Edovo just link to my website where I have all of my content?
To ensure our platform can be used securely in correctional facilities nationwide, it's crucial that we prioritize high-level security measures. One way we achieve this is to ensure our platform doesn't connect to the external internet. Instead, all ...
What is considered an "item"?
If you are thinking about which publishing tier may be the right option for you, it's helpful to think about how many items you'd like to upload and how often you'd like to upload them to the platform. Edovo considers an item as: 1 course 1 ...
What is a publishing tier?
Edovo’s current agreements with tablet providers have provided us with the opportunity to reach over 1,100+ facilities and nearly 1 million incarcerated Learners. And those numbers are growing! However, these agreements only cover a fraction of the ...
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Edovo's Content Catalog
Edovo is dedicated to delivering quality, engaging and high demand programming to all incarcerated individuals in the nation. Edovo has always and will always maintain that quality programming should be available to everyone incarcerated at no cost ...
How to Access and Print Learner Certificates and Transcripts
There are three ways learners can request or receive their transcripts and certificates. Check out the attached flyer to hang in your facilities dorms! 1. When the learner is released, they are able to continue their education on Edovo Go. ...
Certificates and Transcripts Explained
Edovo tracks learner progress through certificates and transcripts, making it easy to celebrate and share their achievements with family and friends, attorneys, judges and anyone else. What are certificates and transcripts, and what's the difference? ...
How to Access a Transcript in Insight
Learners are always able to access certificates and transcripts upon release when accessing their Edovo Go account! What are transcripts and certificates on Edovo? Transcripts are a record of all courses a Learner completed on Edovo at your facility. ...
Video: An Introduction to Edovo for Content Partners
Looking to learn more about how your content and curriculum can be made available to a national incarcerated audience? Start here to quickly learn more about the Edovo Learn app for incarcerated Learners, Edovo Editor for content creators, and the ...