Planning your site
The first step in putting your Unit of Study online is to plan it. This enables you to look at the course as a whole and how the various parts relate to each other.
Your map of the course can be as general as an overall sketch or as detailed as a sketch of each page.
Below is an example plan of a unit of study:
Why is planning important?
Planning helps you establish the hierarchical relationship between elments and to find the right balance between the number of clicks and importance of information
Planning enables you to apply some organising principles to the elements which you are going to include in your site (e.g. putting communication tools together etc)
Planning enables you to align what you are doing in the face-to-face classroom with what you plan to do online.
Questions to ask yourself in the planning stage
What do I want my students to learn?
What am I going to use to help them learn?
| Example | Action at planning stage |
|---|---|
| One of your learning outcomes is for students to be able to recall and apply chemical formulae. | Put a quiz into your site for formative assessment revision purposes |
| One of your learning outcomes is for students to be able to work collaboratively to present a topic to the class. | Put the student presentations tool into your site so students can work collaboratively online |
| One of your learning outcomes is for students to be able to identify works of art as belonging to various schools or "isms". |
Put a quiz into your site for summative assessment with an image in each question.
Put an image database into your site to present a range of grouped images. |
| One of your learning outcomes is for students to have an understanding of the analytical tools and conceptual grammar needed to discuss modern art. |
Put a discussion into your site with instructions. Invite the students to participate in a discussion topic and post an image with a critique |
