We are here to support your teaching! We offer:
- Course Design Assistance: Collaborate with our team to design engaging, effective courses—whether you’re building from scratch or enhancing existing content.
- Educational Technology Coaching: Need help using tools like Blackboard or another integrated tool? We provide one-on-one coaching to help you feel confident and supported.
Let us help you make online and hybrid teaching easier, more efficient, and more impactful! For either of these services, please complete our Contact Form, and we will reach out to schedule a meeting. From here, we recommend exploring our faculty resources to help acclimate to the Blackboard and our other tools. You will find more information about our course design process below.
Course Design Process
Getting prepared to teach online for the first time? Ready to revamp a course that’s gotten stale? It can certainly seem like a daunting task. That’s where the Online Learning Team can help! We aim to help you do what you do best – teach at a high level! We are happy to meet with anyone teaching a course at SAU to help design, develop, or improve their online course(s).
All faculty teaching hybrid or online classes at SAU must complete the Quality Matters Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR) Workshop within the first year of teaching hybrid or online classes.
The APPQMR workshop helps faculty become familiar with the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric, which was initially developed by online faculty across the United States. Now, QM is internationally recognized and continues to improve its standards based on best practices and research in online education.
This workshop is offered synchronously in a single-day or two-day format. The workshop is also offered asynchronously in a two-week format. The Online Learning Team will complete your workshop registration and payment on your behalf. Read more about the APPQMR workshop or view upcoming sessions on the Quality Matters website.
In this informal meeting, we will discuss your teaching style and preferences, what experiences you want for students, plan for regular and substantive interaction, and develop a course development timeline.
At this stage, we’ll schedule regular “check-ins” to see how the course development is progressing and collaborate to troubleshoot any issues. Throughout these meetings, we’ll also check the course with SAU’s Quality Assurance Rubric for Hybrid & Online Courses, establish opportunities for regular and substantive interaction with students, and review the content for accessibility concerns using Blackboard Ally.
Now it is “Go Time” for the course. As you teach the newly designed course for the first time, we’ll schedule a few check-ins to troubleshoot or plan revisions for upcoming semesters.
After a specific course design has been taught for two (2) semesters, the course will be eligible to pursue Quality Matters Course Certification.
