Reading a Medicine Label
This course helps learners identify their personal information on a medicine label, theinformation of their doctor and pharmacy, and how to interpret instructions fortaking the medicine. Not all labels are the same, but this unit simplifies reading amedicine label by grouping the common information found on a label into commoncategories. This course is filled with […]
Communicating with Healthcare Providers
This course helps learners prepare for and communicate with their healthcareprovider during medical appointments. Learners are introduced to vocabulary theycan use to express their symptoms and concerns in detail. They are also providedwith a script template and practice scenarios to experience how this language canhelp when speaking with providers. Learners are also given a list […]
Financing Your Education (STEPS)
This course provides learners with information on how to pay for education. Byreviewing real-world scenarios, learners understand the different financial aid options(grants, loans, work study), identify common terms and steps to complete the FAFSA, review resources and steps when applying for scholarships, examine key vocabulary related to student loans, and evaluate the risks and benefits […]
Introduction to Educational Pathways (STEPS)
STEPS (Steps Toward Educational Pathways and Success) is a suite of short coursesdesigned for underserved and underrepresented learners in higher learning,including parent learners, first-gen students, and those from low-resourcecommunities. These courses include key information on the various pathwaysavailable, how to pay for higher ed, as well as the skills required to identify andovercome challenges. Course […]
Communicating with Educators
This course helps parents prepare for meetings with their child’s educator. Receivequestions to ask a child and the child’s educator about their progress. Reviewdifferent ways to communicate with educators and a school. Identify communicationtools that work best. Course is available in English and Spanish. This course takes about 1 hour to complete Each unit is […]
Building Future Readers: Tips for Parents and Caregivers
This is a course for parents, caregivers, and early childcare providers looking toexplore and engage with high-yield literacy strategies to support the literacydevelopment of children ages 3-8. The course uses self-reflection questions andscenario-based learning to help learners visualize and plan how they can applystrategies in a way that honors the adult and the child’s experiences. […]
Preparing to Vote
This course helps learners identify reliable information they may encounter whenpreparing to vote. Using real world examples, learners are shown how to recognize asafe government website based on the URL. After learning the meaning of bias,learners evaluate the quality of both print and digital messaging based on theirsources. Course is available in English and Spanish. […]
Problem-Solving Tech Issues
This collection of courses helps learners to build knowledge around using andproblem-solving with digital tools in different areas of daily life, as well as developstrategies to find, use, and analyze reliable information from the internet and socialmedia. Courses available in English, Spanish, and for English Language Learners inthe English for Digital Skills Program. Learners can […]
How to Use a Computer Mouse
This collection of courses helps learners to build knowledge around using andproblem-solving with digital tools in different areas of daily life, as well as developstrategies to find, use, and analyze reliable information from the internet and socialmedia. Courses available in English, Spanish, and for English Language Learners inthe English for Digital Skills Program. Learners can […]
Digital Skills for Social Media
This collection of courses helps learners to build knowledge around using andproblem-solving with digital tools in different areas of daily life, as well as developstrategies to find, use, and analyze reliable information from the internet and socialmedia. Courses available in English, Spanish, and for English Language Learners inthe English for Digital Skills Program. Learners can […]