Online Course Design Essentials: A support resource
A basic checklist
Please find linked a document titled, Online Course Design Essentials. The Office of Online Learning synthesized practices from the instructional design community to create a quick, one-page reference guide for faculty as they begin to consider teaching summer and, potentially, fall courses online.
This checklist contains basic building blocks and does not serve as a comprehensive approach to successful online course design and facilitation. Suggested techniques for foundational course design address the following topics:
- Course navigation
- D2L Brightspace utilization
- Emerging elements of Universal Design
- Course facilitation
Online Essentials D2L Brightspace Course: Learn the essentials at your own pace
The Office of Online Learning developed a short, asynchronous course for faculty as a support for learning how to implement any of the suggested checklist items. Please email onlinelearning@mnstate.edu to gain access to this D2L Brightspace course.