1. Course Site Development
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Course Site Development
In this session we will use an audience response app called SOCRATIVE.
Please download the free app for your device from the relevant app store. Be sure to download the student version of the app.
If you are using a laptop, simply go to socrative.com and click on the student log-in button.

2. Learning outcomes: At the end of this course you will be able to:
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Learning outcomes:
At the end of this course you will be able to:
Identify key characteristics of an effective course site
Adapt the UON minimum presence template to suit your course requirements
Define the different roles for staff within a course site

3. Some stuff we won’t talk about
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Some stuff we won’t talk about
UI / UX design
The benefits of good UI design:
Increased usability
Eliminates confusion
Evokes an emotional response
UI design is concerned with making sure elements in a user interface are consistent and intuitive.
A good UI helps constantly prove a user’s assumptions about the interface right.
Increased Usability
Consistent design makes it easier for users to navigate don’t have to spend time learning the interface of every new course site – or page within a course site. Naturally, your students will feel more comfortable, and are more likely to remain engaged.
Eliminates Confusion
The way you lay out your course site tells students what’s important. If there’s content in front of them, with instructions on what they need to do, an explanation of why it’s important and it’s in context with other elements of the course – they know you want them to pay attention to that content. If you put a document two levels down, in a folder called Resources, with 50 other documents and no explanation of what that document is or why it’s there, it doesn’t seem important.
Evoke an Emotional Response
If students know what to do, they will become confident. If they don’t, they’ll become anxious. Emotion becomes important when we start to think about validity – when it comes to score = true score – error. Anxiety is a source of error.

4. Who has taught online before?
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Who has taught online before?
On the fly Socrative poll
Who here has taught online before?
Who has used Blackboard?
Any other LMS?
other platform?
Who has been a student online?
What did you do?
once?
Many years?
What worked? What didn’t work?

5. Student feedback on Blackboard 2016
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Student feedback on Blackboard 2016
“My experience with Blackboard has really not been very good. It's hard to find the "centre" of what the course is about”.
“I would like to see ONE TYPE of format for each lecturer to follow each subject when they load up all their content on the course. Each lecturer does it differently and it makes life hard to try and work out each lecturers preferred style”.
“As mentioned earlier, I think that it is easy to miss information on Blackboard, because of the amount of info that is placed there. Also, the way that courses are structured means that there are constant small assessments, that can be easy to miss in the crush of info”.
“My On Boarding experience (in Feb) was woeful. I didn't get a walk-through and I lost 2 weeks due to the ridiculous layout of blackboard. I'm still struggling to catch up”.
Anyone have anything to add here?
“At starting more info about how to navigate blackboard...not enough time spent showing how to do this...”
“Lecturers should be taught a standard for how they use blackboard. They make it misleading by having folders they don't use”.

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“…staff expect students have the skills and motivation to study in an online environment with minimal support, while students comment that they require more guidance, detail and for teachers to provide a staged, progressive learning experience for students.”

7. Minimum Standards A baseline for course sites:
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Minimum Standards
A baseline for course sites:
that manages student expectation
makes it easier for new students (and existing students) to navigate the site
makes it easier for staff to build their sites
Q: What should be in the course site at the very minimum?
To address the problems and feedback we’ve been talking about, numerous organisations have looked at the idea of minimum standards.

8. Introduction Course Outline Course Materials Assessment
Assessment 1 – Quiz 1
Week 1 - Insects
Week 2 - Birds
Assessment 2 - Podcast
Week 3 - Reptiles
Assessment 3 - Essay
Week 4 - Fish
Assessment 4 – Quiz 2
Week 5 – Mammals I
Week 6 – Mammals II

9. ACTIVITY 1a What elements would you add to your course site?
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ACTIVITY 1a
What elements would you add to your course site?
Use the post-its (or write) to add individual elements to the site template provided.

10. ACODE Thresholds
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11. Evaluate your course site against some of the ACODE thresholds
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ACTIVITY 2
Evaluate your course site against some of the ACODE thresholds
Make sure 1 group has acessibility.

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UON Minimum Presence
These changes are not intended to restrict a course coordinator’s creativity or ability to offer a unique and rich, discipline-relevant learning experience for their students, but rather to assure a consistent standard recognisable by all students, making interaction with their course sites as easy and intuitive as possible.

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15. What would you revise / add / remove from your course site?
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ACTIVITY 1b
What would you revise / add / remove from your course site?
Does this now look like your School site template?

16. Roles & Responsibilities in UONline
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Course Coordinator is responsible for:
Course Design/Content
Course outline
modules/weekly activities etc.
Assessment summary
Assessment submission areas
[Opportunity to submit to Turnitin]
Links to UONline ‘Help for Students’
Course Availability
Quality Assurance
Copied content
Modify/update content and/or dates
Continued compliance
Copyright
Privacy
Grading/feedback
Lecturer/Tutor knowledge/consistency for site

17. Roles & Responsibilities in UONline
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Sessional Staff:
Course Design/Content
Course outline
modules/weekly activities etc.
Assessment summary
Assessment submission areas
[Opportunity to submit to Turnitin]
Links to UONline ‘Help for Students’
Course Availability
Quality Assurance
Copied content
Modify/update content and/or dates
Continued compliance
Copyright
Privacy
Grading/feedback
Lecturer/Tutor knowledge/consistency for site

18. Blackboard Course Roles and Privileges
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19. Blackboard Course Roles and Privileges
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…and finally,
We’ve talked about Blackboard, but there are changes coming:
LMS review
BA Online prototype – FL
Open Learning
Platforms and authoring tools that can be plugged in to the LMS
“platform agnostic”
Site mapping