Designing Your Course

4 weekly modules
10 - 12 hours total
Facilitator: TBA
Next session begins August 5; course closes Nov. 1.

Multi-participant enrollment; participants can interact with each other; the training is self-paced, with facilitator moderation.

To enroll, email or call the Center for Academic Excellence at caestaff@pdx.edu, or 503-725-5642. Please indicate your name, ODIN email address, phone extension, academic unit and the training course for which you would like to register.

In this workshop, you are introduced to the design skills necessary to create effective, engaging online courses. Through interactive tutorials, structured activities, examples, and discussions, you'll gain experience with key design tools and features as well as completiing some preliminary planning for your actual course. A variety of tools are used to build and organize your Practice Course.

This workshop focuses on the designer role; teaching and management tasks are not covered.

Learning Modules:

Basic Course Design
Explore the interface, and learn to add tools and create content items.

Your Course Home Page
Add files, content items, and folders to the Home Page.

Creating and Presenting Content
Discover how to set course goals, present content through learning modules and media library collections, and use File Manager to manage your course files.

Going Further
Modify the look of your course, and customize content delivery with Selective Release.