Teaching Your Course 5 weekly modules 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'll be introduced to the technical and pedagogical skills necessary to be a successful, effective online instructor. Through interactive tutorials, hands-on activities, examples, and discussions, you'll learn how to keep students informed, promote a lively learning community, work with the Grade Book, control the release of content, and effectively manage your course throughout the semester. This workshop focuses exclusively on the section instructor role; building and design tasks are not covered. It covers the new features, including blog topics, journal topics, and peer review in Discussions, and Grading Forms. Your institution may not have this release or may have some of the features turned off. Learning Modules: Getting Started Explore the interface, learn how to access tools and content. Keeping Students Informed Learn how you can use course tools to provide students with eight pieces of information critical to success in an online course. Interacting with Students Learn how to use communication tools to facilitate quality interaction among course members. Managing Members and Grades Use the Grade Book tool to manage members and grades. Use the Tracking tool to view reports on student activity. Customizing Content Delivery with Selective Release Learn how to use the Selective Release tool to control the delivery of content. |