Margaret discussed ideas, strategies and sample activities that can help learners develop accuracy and fluency in speaking, and demonstrate how various Avenue resources can be used as a springboard for synchronous and asynchronous speaking practice exercises. The focus of the webinar is on teaching in virtual classrooms, Stage 1 learners. This webinar is part of a series focused on better practices in teaching with Avenue.

Margaret discussed ideas, strategies and sample activities that can help learners develop accuracy and fluency in speaking, and demonstrate how various Avenue resources can be used as a springboard for synchronous and asynchronous speaking practice exercises. The focus of the webinar is on teaching in virtual classrooms, Stage 1 learners. This webinar is part of a series focused on better practices in teaching with Avenue.

Marijke Geurts and Dori Tarjan, Avenue project mentors and developers, provided a demonstration of tips and ideas for planning and creating engaging videoconferencing sessions in Avenue. they also presented best practices for structuring lessons, using breakout rooms, whiteboards, shared notes and the chat features of BBB. Join us to learn practical strategies to enhance engagement, increase learner participation and tackle common challenges.

A template is a pre-designed framework for a course that allows instructors to quickly build new courses with a consistent structure and appearance. A well-designed template will enhance the look and feel of the course and improve student navigation. In the webinar, Margaret demonstrated Avenue’s templates available in CourseBuilder (in the course request form) and discuss how an organizational template can be built by modifying

In the Help! New Avenue Support webinar, Nancy Van Dorp, John Allan & Paul Carter, demonstrated features on the new Avenue online supports for instructors. This included the new searchable knowledge base, link to live assistance, a digital suggestions box, a report an issue tool, and suggestions to acquire assistance more efficiently with their mentors. The aim of this session was to assist instructors to

Marijke Geurts and Dori Tarjan, project mentors and developers, demonstrated various strategies, ideas, and tips for teaching LINC 7-8 learners. Dori and Marijke also shared ways both those with an Instructor (non-editing) and Teacher (editing) role on Avenue can adapt and add resources for the higher levels, when teaching a blended or online program.

In this session, Chayan Mallick, Avenue instructor mentor, instructor and developer, shared some tips and tricks with some suggestions to customize and energize a blended or online course so that it makes the course page more user friendly and motivating.

In this session, Marijke Geurts, TBLV project lead and developer, shared ideas and suggestions on how a volunteer can support you in the LINC classroom. These suggestions have been collected over the past three years from ESL instructors and volunteer coaches. Instructors were also encouraged to share their experiences..

In this session, Marijke Geurts and Dori Tarjan, Avenue mentors and developers, looked at seven modules for CLB 5-8 under the theme ‘Post-Secondary Education’ with specific attention to the latest module, CLB 7-8: Exploring Pathways to Regulated Professions.

In this webinar, CanAvenue (and Avenue) developers, Nancy Van Dorp and Sepideh Alavi, provided an introduction to CanAvenue.ca, a new self-directed language learning resource from New Language Solutions, In addition to providing a tour of the new platform, the presenters explained:
what CanAvenue is exactly
who CanAvenue is for, and
what you need to know about CanAvenue.

Creating H5P and Moodle quizzes are not easy. In this webinar, Avenue-LearnIT2teach mentor and developer John Allan, built on the techniques introduced in the ChatGPT Prompting to Streamline H5P Development (Part 1) These included:

fill in the Blanks and Mark the Words from a generic prompt
taking this further to create an H5P Columns activity
a simple Moodle quiz with the assistance of

Creating H5Ps is not an easy task. It is time consuming and involves a lot of steps. In this webinar, Avenue-LearnIT2teach mentor and developer John Allan, introduced and demonstrated ChatGPT prompts that will speed up H5P development for your learners and streamline the development of H5P Single Choice set, Summary, Drag the Word and Question Sets with multiple choice questions. John also included fill in