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COURSE ALIGNMENT MAP
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MAKE A COPY FOR YOUR USE. This tool promotes high quality design of an online course based on researched best practices and years of practical experience. It uses Backward Design principles, Quality Matters practices and Universal Design for Learning strategies.
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This is a summary of your complete course. This can easily be adapted to use as your course schedule if formatted for ADA compliance. It is a tool to use when making updates in one area of your course to see how all the other weeks are effected for consistency, balanced student workload, and alignment to outcomes. It can also be used in professional promotion and to show your overall course design for accreditation reviews.
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Add your course oblectives/outcomes here for easy reference to use on the map below.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES for reference{Objective 1]{Objective 2]{Objective 3]{Objective 4]
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Column B - D use BEFORE building in the LMS
Column E-F use AFTER building course in the LMS
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WEEK / UNIT STEP 1: FOUNDATION ITEMS, Course Learning Objective/Outcomes (Add the objective/s targeted this week)STEP 2: ASSESSMENTS, Assignments, EvaluationsSTEP 3 ACTIVITIES: Action items for students to do. Participation and Interaction: Student - Instructor (SI); Student - Student (SS); Student - Community (SC)STEP 4: NAVIGATION, Directions, Instructions, Steps, Where to find items STEP 5: TECH CHECK, Tech tools, links, ADA compliance checked in course
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SAMPLE WEEK 1
1. Explore basic pedagogy of designing a course. 2. Implement the use of a course alignment tool. 3. Design the beginning of a course (Step 1 of 5 steps)Add Course Objectives to the Course Alignment Map. (CO2) Create the Foundation Items: Learning Outcomes, Syllabus, Course Schedule. Create the Welcome Here section of your course in Ultra, and add the Foundational items (CO1,3)Attend the session or listen to the recording of the session and view the slides. (S-I) Ask questions, interact in the live session (S-I, S-S) Research a Course Alignment Map to use for course devleopment (S-C)Recording and slides are linked. One assignment: Instructions clear in the assignment to Try It. Module formated in order of work flow. Instructions in syllabus, module and assignments. Navigation video in Begin here.Link to Course Alignment Map tool works. Links to the session recording and slides work. Recording able to use CC.
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