To avoid dumping your course materials into a virtual shoe box and having students sift through the materials, struggling to infer context and connections you may consider this quick guide to how we at the Distance Education Unit typically organize our materials within the Learning Management System. Templates, samples and checklists for these processes are linked to below the video.
- Step-by-step technical guide to building content in Blackboard – https://usask.libwizard.com/f/RemoteCourseSetUpGuideUsingBlackboard
- Course Design Plan and Learning Module templates in MS Word format – https://teaching.usask.ca/curriculum/online-delivery.php#CourseDevelopmentToolkit
- A more in-depth look at chunking and sequencing your online course materials
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Organizing Content Overview: Course Design Plan – https://youtu.be/FRGKPX9Yo8o
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Organizing Content Overview: Chunking Content – https://youtu.be/gLvxNOt-qA4
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Organizing Content Overview: Sequencing Content – https://youtu.be/2CRX_O3BafI
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