Amelia Horsburgh, Barbara Phillips, Heather M. Ross and Tracie Risling of the University of Saskatchewan (2013) share their advice on creating a class syllabus.

Storyboarding

Dr. Power asked our class to build a pilot Module. He guided us through the same processes that we would use in an actual instructional development project and the first thing that he asked us to start with was a storyboard.

Storyboarding helped me visualize what my International Business (BBB4M) course would look like, helped me write scripts and with planning to ensure that course expectations were being met. It also made it easy for me to make quick changes to the script before I starting building the pilot Module without having to go back and fix the parts that I built.

As Adeboye (2014) explains, without preparing a map of what an online module should look like, it’s easy to go into the Learning Management System and start building and come up with many great ideas but ending up with too much content for students to handle in the amount of time that the course is designed for.

A map provides criteria to indicate what needs to be done, and when it is done. Without proper planning, it is also easy to get lost and start feeling over your head.