Course Design
Providing this is a good way to establish a welcoming environment in your online course.
What is a welcoming statement?
These should be relevant and support the learning outcomes, content, activities and assessments of the course.
What are course materials?
This is the adjective used to describe the structure of the "Blueprint" site.
What is modular?
This professional learning program is grounded in the belief that the impact of learning should be the primary motivator for creating technology-enabled and online learning experiences.
What is "Ontario Extend Program (eCampusOntario)"?
All videos in the course should provide captions, or have these available.
What are transcripts?
As in a face-to-face classroom, this person has the responsibilty to manage class conduct.
Who is the instructor?
Supplying materials in this provides access to all learners at all times.
What are multiple modalities?
To find the Course Blueprint Site, you need to log on to mycourselink and select this link from the Support menu on the right of the page.
What is "Self-Registration: Academic Support and Training"?
You have access to the “Learning to Teach Online” course, which is an example of this type of course.
What is a a massive open online course (MOOC)?
These principles are important for online teaching and learning.
What are Universal Design principles?
Diversity of teaching approaches and this will create an effective course.
What is assessment?
This is the protection that is given to materials and their owners or creators.
What is copyright?
This space on the Blueprint site enables learners to pose questions about the course.
What is "Ask the Instructor/Ask a Peer?
This mini-course presents best practices for online teaching course development.
What is "How to Teach Online 101"?
This is an imporant part of a syllabus to ensure that learners know how to request assistance if needed.
What is an accommodation or accessibility statement?
These clearly describe the competencies that learners should be able to demonstrate at the end of the course.
What are learning outcomes?
This is an online application to create, share, and reuse interactive content that can be embedded in an online course site, posted on a website or shared by a weblink.
What is H5P?
Directly in the course site are these, to help you with designing, editing, and incorporating new content and tools.
What are a comprehensive guide and videos?
CoP is short for this.
What is Community of Practice?
The staff of this department are committed to working collaboratively with students, staff and faculty to provide a successful learning experience.
What is Student Accessibility Services?
Continuity and timeliness of this will support student learning.
What is feedback?
Before submitting any course reserve material, you must set up a course site by logging on to this page first.
What is MyInfo?
The Blueprint site uses these, which are completely customizable to suit individual needs and requirements.
What are sample placeholders?
This is the adjective describing on line courses in which instructors and learners don't have to be present in real time.
What is asynchronous?
These describe how a product or service features meet accessibility criteria of Section 508.
What are VPAT's, or Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates?