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Badging your course as communication-intensive is a straightforward process that significantly impacts student learning outcomes. Successfully completing this certification demonstrates your commitment to teaching excellence while connecting you with a vibrant community of practice.

Clear frameworks and support systems are available to help you align your course design and assessments with key literacies—written, oral, visual, and digital.

Oral Literacy

The ability to communicate through spoken texts that are constructed with the appropriate content, structure and language features, fit for their intended academic or professional purpose and audience.

Written Literacy

The ability to communicate through written texts that are constructed with the appropriate content, structure and language features, fit for their intended academic or professional purpose and audience.

Visual Literacy

The ability to communicate in speech and writing through appropriate visual modes (e.g. diagrams, graphs, charts) and/or visual media (e.g. posters, 3-D printed objects, stage performances) fit for their intended purpose and audience.

Digital Literacy

The ability to use appropriate information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information in speech and writing fit for their intended purpose and audience (e.g. videos, wikis, websites, virtual reality projects).