BC TEAL 2025 Annual Conference

Effectively managing Avenue.ca resources within your organization is crucial for optimizing educational outcomes and ensuring a seamless experience for both instructors and learners. This workshop covers these areas:
1. Startup Strategies: Initiating the use of Avenue.ca requires thoughtful planning and knowledge of all of avenue’s features. It's important to familiarize your team with the platform's capabilities and inform all staff through initial training sessions can help new educators establish courses more efficiently.  
 
2. Organizing Materials: A structured approach to content management enhances accessibility and learning efficiency. Develop a content naming convention for files and modules, categorize materials logically, and utilize Avenue.ca's folder systems to keep resources organized.  
3. Leveraging the Content Bank: The Content Bank sees as a repository of reusable H5P learning objects. Encourage educators to and utilize this resource to ensure that future updates or augmentation can be resolved with less effort through the Content Bank.
 
4. End-of-Term Best practices: Concluding each  term effectively involves several steps. Archiving completed course  records for future reference is an option. Collecting and analyzing feedback from learners provides insights into course effectiveness and areas for improvement. Additionally, reflecting on term's successes and challenges can inform strategies for subsequent sessions. Resetting courses is also an important practice.
5. Avenue Manager Roles: Defining the roles and responsibilities of Avenue managers is vital. Determine user permissions and ensure that the platform operates smoothly while protecting course and student data.
6. Completion Tracking and ePortfolio: Utilizing Avenue's completion tracking  features allows managers to monitor learner progress systematically and discretely. The ePortfolio tool enables students work to be measured for potential suggestions of improvement or promotion.
7. Reporting Options: Avenue.ca offers various reporting tools that provide insights into course participation, completion rates, and learner performance.
8. Organizational Collaboration Courses: Creating collaborative courses allows for professional development, resource sharing, and collaborative planning, leading to a more cohesive and supportive teaching environment.
9. Professional Development Pathways: Investing in ongoing professional development is essential for instructors to stay abreast of educational technologies and pedagogical advancements. Offering workshops, seminars, and courses focused on effect Avenue.ca utilization and other relevant topics ensures that educators are well-equipped to deliver high-quality instruction.
By focusing on these areas, organizations can maximize the potential of Avenue.ca, leading to enhanced educational experiences and outcomes.

Real-time, live support has been a feature of Avenue.ca since its inception. However, technology has advanced such that we can provide additional help and support. Through the new, state-of-the-art Live Help and Support system, help has been streamlined for instructors. 


No more looking back to find training files in various stages of training, or even waiting for Live Help to be staffed. No more looking through the YouTube channel because you would prefer to see a demonstration. No more searching for an email to find the Avenue Standards for Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL). No more looking for the most recent copy of requests forms. No more looking for current publications and brochures, or the regularly-updated Annotated Bibliography of Adult Settlement Blended Language Learning.  

Live Help and Support has been transformed to be a One Stop Help Shop, and is available just-in-time when instructors need it.  

This session will explain how, where, when and why to access all these resources in one place.  

By the end of this session, instructors will:
~ be informed on how to access all available help and resources on the Avenue Project
~ be confident in their ability to access live help and support
~ understand how to make the most of all the resources they find

This session supports administrators to distinguish between placing a learner in a level for learning, and progressing a learner to a level based on completed CLBs, in order to reduce confusion for clients and teachers.

This session aims to support practitioners to make an informed judgment around student movement in programs.  Using different scenarios, this session will provide participants the opportunity to practice making evidence-based decisions about placement and progression in programs.

On January 1^st The Avenue Project celebrated its 15^th birthday. Neither the project nor the learning technology landscape has stayed still during all this time. The project constantly innovates to incorporate new technology and refine our services to newcomers, educators and the settlement language training sector. Participants in this session will learn about our plans and strategies for the 2025 - 28 IRCC LINC/CLIC funding cycle. 
 
As of January 23^rd 2025 there were 416 BC LINC courses and 3703 BC users active on the Avenue platform in the previous 30 days. Avenue is IRCC’s recommended platform for learning and teaching in LINC and CLIC programs across the province and the country. The LMS has been customized extensively to address the needs of LINC and CLIC professionals and the sector. It features an ePortfolio solution that supports effective PBLA, and a Course Builder that allows teachers to readily build custom courses to meet their learner’s needs from a collection of over 400 eUnits.
 
In this session, the presenters will discuss plans for:

• Addressing policy shifts in immigrant language training
• New PBLA-aligned eModules
• The evolution of the teacher training stages
• In-service supports like Live Help
• AI integration in Avenue and bot-mediated access to support files
• Evaluation and constant improvement in all we do

 
The session will provide opportunities for participants to ask questions and provide feedback on the opportunities and challenges they encounter to learning technology innovation. Participants will be asked to share the local solutions they’ve developed to resolve barriers and better address the needs of newcomer clients.