(Important Standard -- 1 point)
Often textbooks come with supplemental materials from the publisher (videos, audio, chapter summaries, practice quizzes etc.). If you choose to use these, keep the following in mind:
Tailor the materials to fit your course:
The materials can be more in-depth than what you cover in class, so you should make sure that you utilize only the subject matter covered in your class.
Conversely, you may choose to cover a topic in more detail, so you may need to expand upon the supplemental material.
Visually, the materials may differ from your course, so you may want to change the appearance to match your course, so that the students experience continuity when moving from your materials to the supplemental materials.
Additionally, sample quizzes may also contain material you have not covered in your class, so before you place them in your course, make sure they stay within the realm of the subject matter you assign to your students.
Avoid the urge to use flashy animation or other visual gimmickry. While they may be interesting at first, they can quickly become annoying if not directly related to your subject material.
In most courses, students move through the content on a week-to-week basis, so consider organizing your content into weekly modules that correspond with the class schedule.
Instead of grouping content by type, organize it into topic modules. In other words, do not provide separate modules for lecture slides, materials, supplements, etc., group these into topic-based modules, so it is more clear to students how and why they are going to be used.