- Course Map (PDF)
The course map is the scope and sequence of the course, broken down by module topics. These include the number of contact hours, topics, learning objectives, readings, and assignments. This is the first document you will complete in the course development process. Here you will decide on the scope and sequence of your course by delineating the objectives into specific modules and then topics. Additionally, you will implement a possible reading and assignment that tie to your module learning objectives.
- Module Document (PDF)
This document is used as a framework for developing a lesson using components of an effective lesson. These components include intended learning outcomes, concise expectations and instructions, engaging content, and quality assessments. Module buildingbegins after completing the course map. That information then expands into a robust lesson, including an introduction, objectives, guiding questions, teaching, student practice, assessments, and a conclusion.- Module Document Exemplar for Blackboard (DOC)
- Module Document Exemplar for Canvas (DOC)
These exemplars aim to give faculty an insight into what each module of their course will look like after instructional developers have taken the content from the module build document and built it out within a University Partner's LMS. It showcases how faculty should input readings, videos, and external resources for students utilizing student-facing language, how assignments and assessments should be added into the module build document, and how to provide interactive element build requests to an instructional developer.
- Course Audit Post-Scrub (PDF)
The purpose of this course audit post-scrub document is a:- high-level audit of objective, scope, and sequence of the finalized course per the accreditation requirements and the Quality Matters (QM) Higher Education Rubric.
- identify, document, and inform the Director of Curriculum (DoC) of any inconsistencies between the course content in the Learning Management System (LMS), the original course map, and the course syllabi.
- tracking document for the Self-study Report (SSR).
- dynamic living document in which faculty, the Curriculum Manager (CM), and DoC may document potential course corrections, tracking of student performance within the module, assessment, assignment outcomes, and faculty evaluations to aid in future course revision.