Course Components

Introduction
How will you tell students how to get into your online course? How will you orient them to learning online and the tools you'll be using in your course? How will students know what do to in the course and where to start?

Final Touches

1. Develop an outline of necessary communication for your online course. For example, you might have an introductory email, a welcome email, a weekly "todo" email, or other such communication. You'll find examples you can use in Resources.

2. Decide what is in the week one orientation. You might build this into the learning activities for the first week. Or your institution might already have orientation materials. Decide what level of orientation your students need.

3. Finish syllabus and post. Tie up any loose ends for your syllabus. Check your work. Anything else you should include? See Course Syllabi for a list of components.

Then post (Word, HTML or PDF) your communication and orientation materials/plans and final syllabus in the Discussion Board for feedback (one message for each).

Timing: Work on Course Components Monday and Tuesday and post your work by Wednesday night each week. Thursday through Sunday we will participate in Community Feedback.

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