Designing Your Course

Preparing for your Distance Course

Information on some things you should think about before beginning to design your course.

Planning for your Course

Tips on putting your course design down on paper before building your course. Information is provided on building a course outline and a course file map to help you get started.

Example Courses

Various course examples showing how others have designed courses.

Course Design - General Design Principles

Web design and course design tips.

Designing Your Course With Maintenance in Mind

Some useful tips to know as you are designing and/or refreshing your course.

Quick and Easy Techniques  - A set of techniques to use while putting together your course. Topics include Resizing Photographs, Images, Course Banners, Blackboard file sizes, Converting PowerPoint to PDF, ZIP files, and Course Cartridges.

Fair Use for Education - When creating your course it is a good idea to double check your classroom items to make sure that all the resources you have will pass the Fair Use test.

ADA for Distance Education - ADA guidelines for your web-based courses

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