Category: Course Overview & Introduction

Quality Review Showcase The Quality and High Quality online course reviews explore components proven to be best practices in online course design. This post showcases High Quality item, “The course provides students with information on protecting their data and privacy related to tools that are provided by vendors external to UCF (e.g. links to privacy …

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Quality Review Showcase The Quality and High Quality online course reviews explore components proven to be best practices in online course design. This post showcases High Quality item, “An introduction to the university’s services and resources that support student success and well-being (e.g., Student Care Services, Health Services) is provided.” There are numerous university services …

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Quality Review Showcase The Quality and High Quality online course reviews explore components proven to be best practices in online course design. This post showcases Quality item 2p, “Required hardware and/or software and how students can access them is stated in the syllabus.” Students taking online courses are going to be using technologies to participate. …

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A module introduction provides students an overview of what they will learn and do in that unit.

Every online course is unique, so it is important to orient new students to your course at the beginning with introductory information and experiences to help them get started.

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.