1. Course Overview
Wondering how to design a coherent and accessible course?
This page includes guidance documents, templates, and tutorials to support your work.
Backward Design
Backward Design: Alignment Mapping
In this workshop series, Eric Hill introduces the concept of alignment mapping and shares practical tools and approaches for leveraging this best practice. The slides accompany the videos below.
Backward Design in Context (11:13)
Using the Backward Design Model (24:02)
Instructional Design Support
What is instructional design, and what can our team do for you? The What Can ID Do for You? slide deck explores the work of an instructional designer and the value they can add to your work.
Use and share this flier with those who are interested in learning more about the services that the ID Team provides.
Pre-Semester and End-of-Semester Procedures
The Blackboard Course Request Form outlines the course request procedure.
Remote Instruction Checklist Request Form
Request your checklist here.
This guidance document will steer you through the process of requesting and developing your course.
This guidance document unpacks the procedure for wrapping up your Blackboard course.
Getting Acquainted with Blackboard
The Blackboard Course Request Form outlines the course request procedure.
This guidance document offers answers to frequently asked questions relevant to Blackboard.
This guidance document outlines the process for copying a course in Blackboard.
Use this guidance document to copy rubrics from existing courses.
This guidance document offers final tips for Blackboard users whose courses are about to go live.
Building a Syllabus
Eric Hill (Instructional Designer, Information Technology) and Martha Kershaw (Assistant Professor, Nursing) facilitate a webinar about a comprehensive Syllabus Template designed to incorporate institutional policies and align to Quality Matters (QM) standards.
In this brief video tutorial, will walk users through the process of adding a Google Doc--in this case, a syllabus--to Blackboard.
Use this Syllabus Template to build an informative and accessible course syllabus.