Since the shift to online learning during the pandemic, digital platforms have become a regular part of LINC programming. Literacy instructors continue to navigate how (and whether) the Moodle-based Avenue platform fits the needs of their learners. While some instructors find Avenue challenging and time-consuming, others have discovered practical ways to use it to support literacy development.This panel brings together instructors from different organizations across British Columbia who have used Avenue with literacy-level LINC learners. Panelists will draw on their classroom experience, focusing on the challenges they face, what they actually do in practice, and what has worked with their students. The session will showcase ready-to-use Avenue units and activities, as well as available supports, offering multiple perspectives shaped by different learner needs, program contexts, and levels of instructor comfort with technology.
Relevance to the BC TEAL CommunityThis session reflects the conference theme by grounding digital instruction in the realities of literacy classrooms while responding to a changing instructional landscape. By centering instructor experience and learner needs, the panel supports relevant, adaptable EAL practices that acknowledge both opportunities and limitations of digital platforms in LINC literacy programs across BC.
Focus of Each Presenter’s Portion
- Presenter 1: Moderator Literacy Materials on Avenue and Instructor Support
- Presenter 2: The use of Avenue in a Literacy/CLB 1 in-person course with 12-18 students as part of a weekly routine to enhance digital literacy and classroom material, as well as an exploration of constructive solutions to ease the login process, maintain a simple course design, and implement literacy-friendly activities through Avenue’s URL option.
- Presenter 3: Teaching LINC-Online for literacy learners in remote areas, focusing on accessibility to learning and practical strategies to engage with Avenue successfully.
- Presenter 4: Administrative supports and systems that reduce barriers for literacy learners accessing online language training, and on building digital capacity in ways that are practical, sustainable, and learner-centered.
Panelists are practicing LINC literacy instructors with hands-on experience using Avenue with literacy students. Their expertise is rooted in daily teaching practice and working directly with adult literacy learners in varied instructional contexts.
