Online Course Peer Review

A big thank you to the participants of the Online Course Peer ReviewWorkshop and to Minnesota Online for their sponsorship! I enjoy being a part of presentationswhere suchuseful exchanges of information take place (you all asked such great questions!). A good learning experience for all!

I did hear from a number of participants who are interested in working on online course peer review at an inter-institutional level. I’ll be in touch with you sometime fall semester to discuss this possibility further. Until then, we can continue to learn from each other here…which leads me to today’s topic:

Rubric standard I.2 reads: Course layout, as designed by the instructor, is easy to navigate and understand. This 3-point item (an important one as all 3-point standards must be met in order for a course to meet overall expectations) assumes that the following are easy to locate, navigate and understand:

• a course syllabus
• a calendar with all course activities/deadlines included
• course activities
• grading system
• quizzing procedures (online, proctored, etc.)
• procedure for submission of assignments
• discussion instructions

As the designer of a course, it’s easy to think your online course is highly navigable. Having others enter your course for the first time to provide feedback to you about its navigability can be extremely valuable! Oftentimes, just a couple of small changes can make a confusing course a straightforward one.