What is the course content?
How is the content organized? by the week? in units?
What do students do? assignments, readings, discussion, fieldtrips, projects, journals, quizzes, tests.
Where and when do they do it? online, offline - course calendar, weekly To Do List.
What are the course features and what happens where? (See features matrix)
Course communication:
How will you communicate with each student 1 to 1? email, phone, message area private folder.How will you communicate with the whole class? course website - instructiions, directions, models, lectures; message area - announcements, questions
When will you communicate?
How are you going to do assessment? written assignments, discussion, journals, projects, quizzes, tests.
How will you keep track and how will you give feedback?
Course management:
Who is enrolled?How do students get access and when?
Team assignments
Site maintenance:
When do you put stuff up and take stuff down?What is your weekly To Do list?
- announcement
- discussion topic
- post weekly To Do list
- upload new pages and changes to existing pages
- activate / deactivate quizzes and tests
- post grades, hand back assignments
- answer questions, reply to student messages