Content Creation & Upload for Correctional Staff
(CORRECTIONAL STAFF) Creating and issuing surveys to your population
Edovo can be used for creating and publishing surveys for your incarcerated residents. Prior to beginning, please review the following: Surveys can be made available to your entire agency (County Jail or DOC) or specific facilities (Prison A or ...
(CORRECTIONAL STAFF) Adding Quiz and Survey Questions to Content
Multiple Choice To add a graded multiple choice question: On the desired content page, click the “Multiple Choice” option from the Quiz Items menu on the bottom left of your screen. You will see the multiple choice input field added to the bottom of ...
(CORRECTIONAL STAFF) Content Creation Best Practices: Plagiarism Do's and Don'ts
(CORRECTIONAL STAFF) 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 ...
(CORRECTIONAL STAFF) 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 ...
(CORRECTIONAL STAFF) 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 ...
(CORRECTIONAL STAFF) 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 ...
(CORRECTIONAL STAFF) 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 ...
(CORRECTIONAL STAFF) 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 ...
(CORRECTIONAL STAFF) 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 ...
(CORRECTIONAL STAFF) What Criteria is Used in Reviewing Content?
Edovo serves a wide audience of learners, from youth to elderly, to all types of backgrounds, cultures, and beliefs. We strive to provide relevant content and curriculum to each person who utilizes our platform, knowing that the diversity of needs is ...
(CORRECTIONAL STAFF) How to Upload a Learning Resource to Edovo?
What is a learning resource? For content partners or facilities that have materials they wish to upload that are Learning Resources, such as books, podcasts, inspirational videos, flyers, or other materials of the like, these Learning Resources can ...
(CORRECTIONAL STAFF) What Content Types are available on Edovo?
Edovo offers four main content types: Course: An interactive resource with a focused learning objective and mechanism through which a Learner can demonstrate learning Resource: Content that a Learner can revisit and review as needed Assessment: Use ...
(CORRECTIONAL STAFF) Submitting a Course to Edovo for Publishing
Once your course is created in Editor, inform us by creating a support request with the following: Choose "I am ready to publish content I made in Editor" List the content title Your name & facility name Email associated with your account Subject: ...
(CORRECTIONAL STAFF) Course Editor File Upload Restrictions & Compression Standards
All video files must be compressed before uploading for optimal streaming on the limited networks found in jails and prisons. In the attachments of this article, you can find a compression standard that you can upload into your favorite compression ...