Module 3
Structuring the Online Experience and Managing Expectations

 

2. Assignments & Resources

 

Assignment 1

Compose a welcome letter for your prospective online course and use this letter and your webcam to create a video introduction. Post the video on Viddler, and embed it into your personal DOTS Blackboard course (you should already have a Viddler account).
Use your own menu-design judgment to create an appropriate area to enter this information. The facilitators will be looking through your course and sending you their suggestions during a later module.

 

Resources

Timeline

  • Start: Saturday, 5/9
  • End: Tuesday, 5/12, 11:59 p.m.
     

Assignment 2

Use the assignment resources to draft Syllabus, Orientation, and Schedule documents for your prospective online course. You may modify your existing course materials and/or create new ones. Feel free to use the samples provided in this module as needed.
Enter the information in your personal DOTS Blackboard course. You will keep building this course throughout DOTS and will be fine-tuning it for presentation during Module 6. 

 

Resources

Timeline

  • Start: Monday, 5/11
  • End: Thursday, 5/14, noon
     

Assignment 3

Use the assignment resources to draft assignment and discussion rubrics (i.e. evaluation and grading criteria) for your prospective online course. You may modify your existing course materials and/or create new ones. Feel free to use the samples provided in this module as needed. Tailor your Assignment rubrics to the course objectives and assignments you created during Module 2.
Enter the information in your personal DOTS Blackboard course. You will keep building this course throughout DOTS and will be fine-tuning it for presentation during Module 6.
 

Resources

Timeline

  • Start: Tuesday, 5/12
  • End: Friday, 5/15, 11:59 p.m.
     

References and Additional Resources

Review these optional additional resources for more information on the module's topics
 

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