Use these resources to aid in online, as well as hybrid, course design and planning.
- Quality Course Design Rubric (PDF): Approved by Academic Council in Fall 2018, the rubric outlines specific standards adopted from Quality Matters (QM). This rubric will be used to conduct internal reviews of online courses.
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Choosing the Right Assessment (PDF): This is a useful tool for aligning the complexity of the assessment to that of the learning outcome.
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Bloom's Taxonomy of Action Verbs (PDF): Bloom’s Taxonomy provides a framework for designing instruction and learning outcomes through a hierarchy of knowledge levels.
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Best Practices in Distance Education (PDF): This article outlines 10 principles of effective online teaching.
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Online Teaching Essentials- FAQs (PDF): All faculty teaching online for the first time at CMU will be required to take the Online Teaching Essentials course. Read the FAQs to find out more.
- Seat Time Calculator (Excel): A simple spreadsheet that allows an instructor to determine "seat time" equivalents in online and hybrid courses.
- Quantifying Online Learning Contact Hours (PDF): This research article highlights the peer-reviewed literature which supports the seat time calculator.
- Feedback Options Comparison Chart (PDF): This chart offers a quick guide to the options available for providing feedback for learners on various online assessments.
- Collaboration & Groups Comparison Chart (PDF): This chart offers a quick guide to the options available for group creation and collaboration with students.
Check out these resources for designing accessible content.
- Guide to Creating Accessible Content in D2L (PDF): This guide walks you through building accessible web (HTML) content within D2L.
- Visual Adjustments for D2L (PDF): This guide walks you through options sizing adjustments in D2L and built-in accessibility options in Windows and Mac OS.
- Creating Accessible PDF Documents (PDF): This guide walks you through using Adobe Acrobat DC's Wizards to create more accessible PDF documents, including improved scanned documents.
- Creating Captions with YouTube (PDF): This guide walks you through how to create and edit captions with YouTube, as well as some basic information about captions and transcripts.
- Using Automatic Subtitles with Office 365 PowerPoint (PDF): This guide walks you through enabling automatic subtitles/caption in an Office 365 PPT presentation.
- Check out our Panopto, VoiceThread, and Video Note guides for additional captioning directions.
- Zoom Accessibility (PDF): This guide walks you through live transcription, captioning and other accessibility features in Zoom.
Check out these resources for guidance on video creation, virtual meetings, and/or storing and sharing videos.
- Video Tools (PDF): This guide will help you select a video tool for video creation, virtual meetings, and/or video repository based on features and uses. For a quick comparison, check out our Video Tools Comparison Chart (PDF).
Virtual Meetings
Virtual Meetings (PDF): Use this guide for tips on improving video and audio, screen sharing, scheduling, managing, recording, and captioning virtual meetings.Zoom
- Zoom Account Set Up (PDF): This guide walks you through creating an account.
- Zoom Meetings with D2L (PDF): This guide walks you through hosting and participating in Zoom meetings with D2L.
- Setting up Office Hours in Zoom: This approximately 6-minute Panopto video walks you through creating virtual office hours with Zoom.
- Linking Zoom to a D2L Shell (PDF): This guide walks you through linking previously scheduled meetings with your D2L shell.
- Live Proctoring with Zoom and Respondus LDB (PDF): This guide will show how to facilitate live proctoring for remote assessments in D2L using Zoom and Respondus LDB.
- Zoom Accessibility (PDF): This guide walks you through live transcription, captioning, and other accessibility features in Zoom.
- Zoom Advanced Polling & Quizzing (PDF): This guide shows you how to add and launch polls and quizzes during meetings and view/download results.
- Zoom Post Meeting Surveys (PDF): This guide will walk you through setting up a post-meeting survey in scheduled Zoom meetings.
MS Teams
- Communicating in Microsoft Teams (PDF): This guide will show you how to communicate using chat and/or video conferencing options in MS Teams.
- Microsoft Teams Recordings (PDF): This guide walks you through downloading recordings, uploading to Panopto, enabling captions, and sharing recordings.
Video Tools
Panopto
- Check out our Panopto page for guides on this too.
Video Note
- Check out our Video Note (PDF) guide for this D2L tool.
VoiceThread
- Check out our VoiceThread pages for guides on this tool.
Resources for Asynchronous Video from EDUCAUSE
- Authentic and Effective: Rescuing Video from Its Role as the Villain of Online Teaching
- The Handoff: Transitioning from Synchronous to Asynchronous Teaching
- Unbounded by Time: Understanding How Asynchronous Video Can Be Critical to Learning Success
- Putting Your Best Self Forward: 6 Keys for Filming Quality Videos
- Teacher, Are You There? Being "Present" in Online Learning
- Let's Discuss Discussions: Using Asynchronous Video to Improve Online Discussions
- Improving Problem-Based Learning with Asynchronous Video
- Back to Feedback Basics Using Video Recordings
- Asynchronous Video Conversations: 11 Tips and Best Practices
- Short and Sweet: The Educational Benefits of Microlectures and Active Learning