Using the Modules
The modules are ready to use, and learners can be directed to complete them in this Pressbooks site. Institutions can share the modules individually by copying and sharing the following links:
- Module 1: Understanding and Communicating Our Boundaries
- Module 2: Boundaries and Healthy Relationships
- Module 3: Talking About Consent
The complete set of modules can also be shared with this link:
Institutions also have the option to install the modules in a learning management system or on a website. Information on how to do that is provided in Obtaining, Installing and Editing the Modules.
These modules are open education resources, so any of the included materials can be edited or adapted in H5P or another medium. Suggestions for possible adaptations are provided below.
If new H5P activities are added, the H5P information on accessibility (Content types recommendations) should be reviewed. Any additional graphics or images should have alt text available for anyone using a screen reader.
Note: The training does not include graded assessments, such as a final quiz. Institutions may add formal assessments using H5P and incorporate them into the modules if desired.
Adapting the Modules
The modules can be adapted to reflect the needs of an institution. Areas that lend themselves to change include the following:
- Land acknowledgement: Each module starts with a land acknowledgement, which is a first step toward reconciliation and an important way to encourage learners to think about their own next steps for reconciliation. Institutions with approved territory acknowledgements are welcome to use them in the modules.
- Videos: Each module includes a video in which people discuss key ideas and themes. The questions and reflections that follow each video are closely tied to that material, so changing the video will require modifications to the entire module. However, the videos can be incorporated into other training, such as a workshop on boundaries and consent.
- Questions and reflections: Each module contains questions and reflection prompts to help learners deepen their knowledge. The questions focus less on right or wrong answers, and more on helping learners consider multiple viewpoints around healthy communication, relationships, and boundaries, as well as different strategies for giving and asking for consent. Institutions can edit or change any of the questions to better meet the needs of their learners.
- Handouts: Each module has two handouts, available for download, that provide guiding questions and prompts to help learners think about boundaries and consent. The second handout in each module provides additional questions and scenarios drawn from the Interrobang game. Institutions may edit the handouts, replace them with their own handouts, or add further handouts.
Opportunities for Extended Learning
The Communication, Healthy Relationships, and Consent modules include materials, such as scenarios and reflection questions, that could be used in small-group discussions, either in person or online. Institutions could offer peer-discussion sessions in which learners complete the modules and then gather to share their reflections and learnings. The modules can also be used as “pre-learning” for other training – for example, on setting boundaries or on consent.
In addition, since the training is designed to provide foundational information on healthy relationships, communication, boundaries, and consent, institutions may want to follow up with additional training on these topics or with training on sexualized violence, building on the topics found in this resource.
Attributions
Communication, Healthy Relationships, and Consent by Intersectional Sexualized Violence – International Student Resource Development Team is © 2024 Government of British Columbia and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
The Creative Commons licence permits you to retain, reuse, copy, redistribute, and revise the course – in whole or in part – for free, providing the creators are attributed. These attributions can be found in the References and Attributions section of the course. If you add to the content, you will need to update these attributions. If you use components of the course, please check the attribution carefully to ensure that you credit the correct creator.