eLearning - Step 4: Navigation
Description
The ability for your students to navigate your course site is critical. Being thoughtful about navigation can lead to student inspiration to dive into the online experience and engage in the course content. How do you build quality navigation into your course? We will discuss what considerations need to be included in your course design and build, as well as, how you can experience your own class as the student.
Criteria
- Use your Course Alignment Map to ensure you have reviewed each item in your course for clarity (context and directions). Sample Course Alignment Map. Write down in the next column, Step 4, all of the places that you have provided instructions for students that week.
- Finish adding any last content items into your course in Ultra
- In preparation for the final session’s activity in Step 5, take some time and review your course in the student view mode, and read through modules and items for context and clarity and directions for students
Deadline
- End of the semester following the semester in which the badge-worthy activity took place.
Coordinator
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Kelley Senkowski and Stephanie Webber
Learning Objectives
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Explain the importance of the Navigation step in the course design process.
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Recognize the contextual elements necessary for online course navigation.
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Create a course navigation video and add it to the LMS course.
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Utilizing your Course Alignment Map, review all student expectations and instructions for clarity, then check off each item on your Map.