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Dynamic Agenda Template

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A more engaging, easily customizable agenda.

Jeremy Caplan

🔥 Warm-up

Start off with an interactive activity to liven up the first 5 minutes of a session with an opening poll, quick game, or brief challenge. Insert polls using Slido,

Poll Everywhere⁠

, or by typing /unbiased voting anywhere on a Coda page to ask students to

suggest and vote on topics/ideas⁠

. You can even embed a game from

genially⁠

(

example⁠

) directly into this page.

Learn more⁠

about why it's good to engage students at the start of every sessions.

🌳 Opener

Embed a link to a

YouTube⁠

video (

example⁠

) or Spotify podcast by pasting the link directly on this page so you’ll have access to media that can helps introduce topics, without switching between tabs and tools. Hover over

this⁠

to see a preview of what it’ll look like as an embed on this page.

🖥️ Presentation

Embed your slides here so you can easily preview and launch videos directly from here. Use

Pitch⁠

Canva⁠

, or for quicker alternatives for creating engaging slide decks. See

Make Terrific Slides — Wonder Tools⁠

for more.

🎤 Learning activity

Insert links to

FigJam⁠

Pear Deck⁠

Whimsical⁠

, or

Padlet⁠

(

example⁠

) for ways to engage students in active, collaborative learning. See

Ideas for Interactivity⁠

for more inspiration.

👉🏽 Next steps

Add information about final projects, checklists of things students still need to do, or links to follow-up courses or programs.

🎈 Feedback

Embed a

Google form⁠

Jotform⁠

, or

Coda form⁠

directly on this page for students to share their about our class, so we can continue to improve it.

🖌 Community discussion

Click on ‘Add a comment’ to post a comment, a word of encouragement, or an insight with everyone, or someone specific in your cohort on the

Our class roster⁠

page. You can aslo upvote others’ posts. Start by deleting the sample messages below:

Clear sample data

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Add a comment

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Group comments

Group comments

Kudos to Brian and Nick for helping to explain the complex issue in the workshop today.

Props to Ellen for her amazing presentations.

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✨ Useful resources

Add a list of links to helpful resources here as a bulleted list

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About this template

The template was created by me, Jeremy Caplan. It’s based on a resource I use for teaching classes and workshops online and in-person. In addition to teaching journalism and entrepreneurship, I also teach workshops on creative efficiency and music appreciation.

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