The Great Online Course workshop series is designed to save you time with practical suggestions and planning resources for your online course development. You’ll start your course creation as you go through these workshops.

If you’re teaching an online course that has already been created, you may move directly to the Teach a Great Online Course workshop.

Design a Great Online Course

This workshop will walk you through the planning stages of creating an online course. Practical how-to guidance coupled with “create-your-course” worksheets will help you move through your course development efficiently.

While the Design workshop is at your own pace, your facilitator is available through Zoom, email, or discussion forum to answer questions and provide feedback.

Coupled with the strategies from the Build and Teach workshops, this course will guide you towards earning Quality, High Quality or Exemplary recognition for you and your course

By completing this workshop and submitting a reflection in the Passport Portal, you will earn 150 miles towards your Passport to Great Teaching certificate.

When you complete this workshop, you will be able to:

1. Plan your online course using “backward design.”
2. Identify features of standards-based quality course design.
3. Align your course objectives, assessments, content and learning activities to create a course map.
4. Experience an online course from the student’s perspective.
5. Estimate the time it will take you to create the content for one module.

Time Commitment

This workshop is required for instructors who are developing or revising an online course for UF Online. Expect to spend approximately eight hours reviewing the materials and completing the worksheets

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Build a Great Online Course

This workshop picks up where Design a Great Online Course left off and continues through the initial stages of building online course materials and selecting digital tools that will help students meet online course goals.

Coupled with the strategies from the Design and Teach workshops, this course will help you implement standards-based best practices that can guide you towards earning Quality, High Quality or Exemplary recognition for you and your course.

By completing this workshop and submitting a reflection in the Passport Portal, you will earn 200 miles towards your Passport to Great Teaching certificate.

When you complete this workshop, you will be able to:

1. Identify technology needs to support your course objectives and activities.
2. Describe and implement good practice for technology usage.
3. Identify the features of a quality online course using the UF Quality standards (canvas login required) in the following areas:

Time Commitment

This workshop is designed to be completed in approximately eight hours.

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Teach a Great Online Course

This workshop will provide you with useful, data-driven, and time-saving strategies for launching and teaching your online course.

Coupled with the strategies from Design and Build workshops, this course will help you implement standards-based best practices that can guide you towards earning Quality, High Quality or Exemplary recognition for you and your course.

This workshop is also designed as standalone support for instructors who are taking over a course that was previously developed by another faculty member.

When you complete the workshop, you will be able to:

1. Demonstrate instructor team presence through the creation of a personal introduction message.
2. Create a communication plan that demonstrates instructor team presence in your course.
3. Organize course design and launch tasks with a semester-long checklist.
4. Identify the features of a quality online course using the UF Quality standards (canvas login required) in these areas:
   a. Instructor Team Presence
   b. Community and Relationships
   c. Feedback

Time Commitment

This workshop is designed to be completed in approximately nine hours.

Great Online Teaching Certificate By completing this workshop and submitting a reflection in the Passport Portal, you will earn 150 miles towards your Passport to Great Teaching certificate.

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This workshop series will familiarize you with standards-based online teaching practices, with specific emphasis on the UF Quality standards. These research-based practices are part of the University of Florida Quality Online Course Review process. After completing this workshop series, and teaching an online course for at least one semester, instructors can begin the Online Course Review process. Upon institutional review, online courses may earn a Quality, High Quality, or Exemplary designation.

This workshop is required for instructors who are developing or revising an online course for UF Online.