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Instructional Design

Course Building Tips for Commonly Missed Standards

Never worked in an LMS template before or worried about the course quality review process? Use our instructional designers’ favorite course building tips below to help prepare yourself for some

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Instructional Design

Risepoint Course Map

Why Course Map? A course map is a structured tool that is used to organize and reinforce the flow ideas and deliverables throughout a course, allowing ideas and deliverables to

Objectives

Quality Matters Standard 2.1

Quality Matters (QM) Specific Review Standard 2.1 can be one of the most challenging, but also one of the most rewarding, standards to meet in a quality review. Describing your 

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Instructional Design

Writing Effective Learning Objectives

SMART Objectives When you are writing course- or module-level objectives or outcomes, remember to always be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound.  Specific: The objective should be specific to

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Assessments and Assignments

Learning Objectives vs. Learning Activities

This page was adapted from Weber State’s “Learning Objective vs. Learning Activity” page in their ID Series: Learning Objectives course.  Definitions Learning Activity: An activity or set of activities a

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Instructional Design

Calculating Student Workload

The Federal Credit Hour “An amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that is an institutionally established equivalency that reasonably approximates not

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Course Facilitation

Three Course Design Strategies To “Stop the Drop”

As you design your online course, you may closely consider the quality of your resources, the relevance of your assessments, and the level of interaction between your students. However, are

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Accessibility

Revising Documents for Accessibility and Universal Design

Why It’s Important You may have heard the term “accessibility” in passing from your university administrators, or you might remember a colleague mentioning “Universal Design” or “UDL.” Did you ever

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Course Facilitation

Four Tips for Facilitation

Facilitation in an online course refers to the faculty’s ability to construct an environment where student discourse expands student knowledge and promotes the learning objectives.

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