Online Course Development / Course Redesign Process
Faculty members who are interested in developing or redesigning an online course need to read through the checklist below, fill out and submit a Course Development / Course Redesign Proposal and Employee Work Made for Hire Agreement, and collaborate with the AEI Department to create the course. Below are the resources that you need to start the process:
Course Development / Course Redesign Checklist
Meet with Division Dean to discuss course needs.
Upon dean’s approval, develop overall student learning outcomes for the course. This, along with the Course Description in the college catalog, will be submitted with the Course Proposal Contract.
If publisher textbook or materials are to be used in the course, request and review the VPAT report from the publisher to assess the suitability of the materials. This will also be submitted with the Course Proposal Contract.
RECOMMENDED: To understand how to read a VPAT, view the TBR Accessibility Training video On “Reviewing Publisher VPAT Reports,” found on the Columbia State Center for Teaching and Learning website.
If the VPAT has not been previously shared with the Chair of the Accessibility Committee, please also forward that for the committee’s records. The email is accessibility@columbiastate.edu.
Complete and submit the Course Development / Course Redesign Proposal and Employee Work for Hire Agreement. Submit the supporting documents: course description, overall student learning outcomes, and VPAT report.
Once the signed contract has been routed through the complete workflow, meet with Glenna Winters, Professional and Instructional Development Specialist, for the initial Course Design meeting. In this meeting, the course developer will receive a copy of the Quality Assurance document which will be used to evaluate the finalized course before payment will be made. The course developer will also be provided a schedule for required check-in meetings with Glenna during the development process.
Continue to meet with Glenna throughout the development of the course to ensure that all SACSCOC, TBR, and Columbia State quality measures are met and that all state and federal guidelines for accessibility requirements are also met.
RECOMMENDED: Tutorials and helpful information about making course materials accessible are available in the Accessibility section of the CTL site.
Submit the completed course for review by the Instructional Designer and Dean of Academic Engagement and Innovation.
Receive payment.
Post-development, maintain and update the course prior to each semester, monitor and update content as needed, and support sectional faculty for a period of three years.
When an instructor is building an online course, one of the first things that needs to be reviewed is the textbook which will be used for the class. All course materials are required to meet accessibility requirements. For example, videos need to be captioned, images need to have alt text, pdfs and other text need to be readable by screen readers. Information about making these types of materials accessible can be found in the Accessibility section of the CTL website. In addition, textbooks need to be reviewed for accessibility, and for this, publishers will provide a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) report. This video, created by the Accessibility team at TBR, will help instructors understand how to evaluate that report.