Developing Course Materials Overview
This self-paced and interactive course will help you to build course content. You will be given key workflows that you need to start building your course, tips and tricks to personalize your course content, and strategies for helping your learners succeed.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Identify areas of your course that you will modify
- Build widgets and sections
- Use Brightspace tools to bring your existing materials into a Learning Environment course
- Play with different tools to build new content in a course
- Develop strategies for editing, organizing, and tracking content
- Evaluate different tools and features that help to personalize learning
AUDIENCE
This course has been designed to benefit and appeal to both beginners and experienced Brightspace users.
Beginners: This course will guide you through the basics of setting up your course content. This course will walk you through key workflows needed to set up, build, and manage your course. Once you have completed the course requirements, you will receive a completion certificate.
Experienced: This course will validate your knowledge of how to set up Brightspace courses with a completion certificate. It will also provide experienced users with up-to-date information that reflects key changes to Brightspace Learning Environment.
DURATION
Expected effort: 9- 12 hours
What Should I Know About the Program Before I Begin?
- Participants are not required to be online at specific times and can work through the materials at their own pace.
- You have twelve months from your date of registration to complete the program.
- In order to earn your course completion certificates, you need to score 100% on all course assessments. Don't worry: you have unlimited attemps to pass the assessments succesfully.
Developing Course Materials with Brightspace Learning Environment Agenda
MODULE 1: SETTING UP YOUR COURSE
This module covers the workflows often used to set up a course. You will create sections, widgets, and learn how to update course offering information.
MODULE 2: WORKING WITH EXISTING CONTENT
This module explores how to import existing materials into your course. In addition, this module showcases different content tools and workflows that are helpful when working with content you’ve already created!
MODULE 3: BUILDING NEW CONTENT
This module demonstrates how to build new content with Learning Environment. You will build new content with the HTML editor, create and apply release conditions, and learn strategies to make your course accessible.
MODULE 4: ONGOING CONTENT MANAGEMENT
This module gives you strategies to keep your course materials updated. You will edit content, interpret content statistics, and set up completion tracking.
MODULE 5: PERSONALIZING CONTENT
This module is focused on creating content that connects with all your learners. You will learn how to create learning paths with release conditions, use awards to increase learner motivation, and work the groups tool to encourage collaboration.