Category: Quality

All content in a course should be accessible by all students, and it is important to provide students information about the accessibility features of all technologies in an online course, including those that will be used outside the learning management system. This post shares strategies for providing accessibility information about third-party tools.

When expectations about online communication are laid out in the beginning of the course, it provides students a framework to guide them. This post shares strategies for clearly stating expectations for course communication.

When students perceive that they know the instructor in an online course, their satisfaction is higher. This post shares strategies for conveying your personality and presence in an online space.

An important component of supporting students to get started on the right foot is an explicit schedule that communicates the pace at which students will engage with all the course elements. This post shares strategies for providing a meaningful, accessible, easy-to-read schedule for your course and reminding students of important dates.

It is important to acknowledge academic integrity in the beginning of the course. This post shares some language you can use in your syllabus to frame the conversation.