Course Design Process

Steps for Designing with CODL

Step 1: Connect

Contact us to discuss your needs and schedule a consultation. We are available to meet in person at our offices on the Lawrence or Edwards campuses, virtually through Microsoft Teams or Zoom, or at your campus office.

Step 2: Discover

Advance your knowledge of learning objectives, assessments, activities, materials, and tools for online courses with our instructional designers.

Use Bloom's Taxonomy to structure your objectives. Low to high-level thinking skills:

1. Remember facts and basic concepts
2. Explain ideas and concepts
3. Apply information
4. Analyze ideas
5. Evaluate or justify a decision
6. Create

Step 3: Organize

The learning process is made more clear and measurable when objectives are clearly articulated and linked to content, activities, and assessments that engage. Whether contained within lessons, modules, units, or part of the overall course goals, solidifying learning objectives and structuring the process by which they will be achieved is a fundamental standard in online course design. Use the Course Design Matrix below as an exercise in organization.

Step 4: Build

We can build a course model in Canvas and design activities to accompany your content. At this stage many instructors also utilize our media production services to create welcome videos, introductions to modules or units, and work with our specialists to ensure fair use of other media used in the course.

Step 5: Assess

We support many forms of tests and quizzes in Canvas, and we will help you build them. We also offer rubrics to standardize grading, alternatives to traditional proctored exams, and in-person proctoring solutions if needed.

Step 6: Review

An instructional designer who has not worked with you to design your course will perform a Quality Matters review to ensure best practices and standards in course design are being met and will offer suggestions for improvement if applicable.