Setting Up Your Course
Overview
Setting up your course takes a lot of planning and building within the learning platform. This section will detail some of the elements we would suggest adding to your course. We will also provide guides on the functionality within the learning platform.
To enhance this discussion, we will leverage SUNY's OSCQR Rubric, more specifically the "Interaction" section, supplying us with a framework on why meeting these standards is important, as well as how to approach meeting those standards.
For those unable to attend the live session, we have pre-recorded a "mini-lecture" describing the main topics, themes and strategies. You can find the recording under the "Pre-Recorded Review" heading.
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Video Recording
Live sessions are not recorded but please feel free to watch and engage with the material, by watching this 10-15 min. recorded session.
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Resources
Pedagogical Approaches, Strategies, and Examples
This list of resources is to help guide you through some of the design, alignment, and building process when preparing your course.
- Where to Start: Backward Design. MIT Teaching and Learning Lab. Retrieved [Oct. 12, 2023].
- Online Course Template and Course Planning Document. Lehman College Office of Online Education. Retrieved [Oct. 12, 2023].
- Inclusive Teaching. Stony Brook University Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Retrieved [Oct. 12, 2023].
- Running Your Course. UC Berkley Center for Teaching and Learning. Retrieved [Oct. 12, 2023].
Blackboard "How-To" Guides
Leveraging the tools available to you is a great way of starting to foster community/discussion. This list of instructional guides from Blackboard Support, is our way of centralizing some of the Blackboard guides, related to discussions.
- Navigate the Template
- Course Style Options
- Making the Course Available
- Student Preview
- Course Readiness (Using the OSCQR Self-Review Rubric)