D2L Brightspace Course Design Guidelines Instructor Name Semester Program Director Course This course review was completed by the campus Instructional Designer. The review was requested by your Division Director as a portion of the instructor evaluation process. The review contains the following sections: the general standard, the specific design standard, applicable annotation, a “Yes”, Improvement (NI)”, and Applicable (N/A)” column, and notes from the instructional “Needs “No”, “Not designer. The bottom of the document also contains a summary of the findings and recommendations for course improvement. You are encouraged to collaborate with the Instructional Designer, your Program Director, and/or your Division Director to work on the recommendations. I. Course Overview and Introduction General Standard: The overall design of the course, navigational information, as well as course, instructor, and student information are made available to students at the beginning of the course. Design Standards Annotation NI No Notes A I.1 Navigational Instructions provide a instructions make the general course organization of the overview, present the course easy to schedule for activities, understand. guide the new student to explore the course website and indicate what to do first. I.2 Course overview is The instructor's easily located: statement gives the statement introduces new student an idea of students to the how the learning course and to the process is structured, structure of the including schedule, student learning and, communication modes, in the case of a hybrid types of activities and course, clarifies the assessments. These relationship between features are often the face-to-face and found in the course online components. syllabus, but they should also be found in an introductory or welcome announcement. I.3 Instructor introduction and contact information is
D2L Brightspace Course Design Guidelines Instructor Name Semester Program Director Course This course review was completed by the campus Instructional Designer. The review was requested by your Division Director as a portion of the instructor evaluation process. The review contains the following sections: the general standard, the specific design standard, applicable annotation, a “Yes”, “Needs Improvement (NI)”, “No”, and “Not Applicable (N/A)” column, and notes from the instructional designer. The bottom of the document also contains a summary of the findings and recommendations for course improvement. You are encouraged to collaborate with the Instructional Designer, your Program Director, and/or your Division Director to work on the recommendations. I. Course Overview and Introduction General Standard: The overall design of the course, navigational information, as well as course, instructor, and student information are made available to students at the beginning of the course. Design Standards Annotation NI No Notes I.1 Navigational instructions make the organization of the course easy to understand. Instructions provide a general course overview, present the schedule for activities, guide the new student to explore the course website and indicate what to do first. I.2 Course overview is easily located: A statement introduces students to the course and to the structure of the student learning and, in the case of a hybrid course, clarifies the relationship between the face-to-face and online components. The instructor's statement gives the new student an idea of how the learning process is structured, including schedule, communication modes, types of activities and assessments. These features are often found in the course syllabus, but they should also be found in an introductory or welcome announcement. I.3 Instructor introduction and contact information is
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