The College of Science (CoS) Brightspace course template offers several modifiable, pre-loaded common components to get your next course started, or to enhance an existing one. This template is a ...

A team of educational developers created a model course site design and structure, specifically for new online courses or courses being built in Brightspace for the first time. Framed around the ...

Our instructional experts at the Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE) and Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT) support the mission of Innovative Learning by exploring course design with Purdue ...

Faculty at CU Boulder can now streamline their course development by selecting from two specialized Learning Design Group's Canvas course templates or utilizing the new campus-wide Canvas template.

Once the ideation and design phases of the Course Development Process have been completed, course development can begin in earnest. This next phase begins with the drafting of the course syllabus and ...

Creating a course map is like planning a road trip—you start with your destination (learning outcomes) and chart the best route to get there (instruction, activities, and assessments). A ...

Courses exist within larger contexts that influence their design and facilitation. Determining which factors are most important for the context of your course can be very helpful. These factors may ...

Support students in adhering to academic integrity through communicating clear expectations, reiterating campus guidelines, and giving students opportunities to ask questions. You should strive to ...

The Course Design Template will be used throughout each of these steps.

One of the most robust backward design models developed for higher education is L. Dee Fink’s integrated course design. Fink outlines a streamlined process for designing academic courses, divided into ...