TOP TIPS FOR PREPARING ONLINE CLASSES

1. UPDATE YOUR COURSES AND PREPARE FOR THE FALL TERM IN DEVELOPMENT SECTIONS.

Development courses serve as your course template, where you can update materials and due dates prior to the start of the term. Once the course is ready, copy the Development course into your live section.

Copy your course using these simple steps:

Start in the course where the materials are located. Click Packages & Utilities under Course Management, then click

Course Copy.

Choose the course you want to copy materials TO. Click

Select All.

De-select Announcements, and select the 2nd option under

Discussion Board.

Submit. You will receive an email when the copy is complete.

If you submit a course course will go into the copy copy close to the queue. It is start of the important term, your that you do not copy your course more than once.

Once the materials have copied into your Fall course, adjust the course menu back to the appropriate order. You can do so by dragging and dropping the course menu link up or down the menu, or by clicking on the Keyboard Accessible Re-ordering button, located at the top of the course menu.

2. CHANGE DUE DATES AND AVAILABILITY WITH DATE MANAGEMENT.

If you have not updated due dates prior to copying your course, or you are working on updates in a Development course, try the Date Management tool. Click Course Tools under Course Management, then click Date Management. Check the last box on the page to list all activities for review. Once the report is complete, you will see all graded activities listed on the page. Here, you can update the due date or date availability by clicking on the Edit (pencil icon) button to the right of the activity. Once you have made a change to a date, wait for the screen to refresh before you move on to the next activity.

3. UPDATE THE START HERE SECTION.

A Spring 2021 importance of survey of ecampus students having an up-to-date Start reiterated the Here section with instructions that not have a Start are specific to the course. Here section, or you want If to your course does inquire as to whether your course is using the most current version, contact the Design Center.

The Start Here section contains components that meet Standard 1 of Quality Students responded Here components in Matters ’ Standards for Course Design rubric. to the presence and usefulness of Start their distance education courses, and overwhelmingly agreed that the course the Start Here section are crucial elements in to getting started on the right foot in the course. These include such elements as instructions on where to go to get started in the course, the opportunity for students to introduce themselves to each other and to you, preferred method of communication for students, and the overall purpose and structure of the course.