Updating Your Newly Restored Course - START HERE

• Course outlines are the College's contract with the students taking a course and were identified as a mandatory component of a course page (as per Doug McLachlan, VP Academic, 2014).
  
  
• To avoid problems in the event of a grade challenge, the Evaluation and Assessment in the course outline should provide the basic structure for a course grade book.
  
  
• The course outline is linked to the official version on SharePoint. If the link is broken, this is the URL https://outlines.cotr.bc.ca/pdf/courses/course-outline-AAAA-123-Fall-2024.pdf; update the highlighted part of the URL with the course ID information.
• You can locate your Course Outline here: https://cotr.bc.ca/courses

• The announcements forum appears automatically in all courses - it is a guaranteed mass-announcement tool which alerts students automatically
• You are encouraged to leave it in place in the Welcome area, but if you have a clear alternative for announcements - ie. in Microsoft Teams or via Email you may consider one of the two following options:
• To Hide when not in use;
  
  • move the element to the bottom of your course and hide it from students if you will not be using this forum to communicate with students
  • remove the block element from the course so it is not visible to students
• To permanently remove:
• • go into your Settings and adjust course Appearance settings. 
  • set number of announcements available to 0
  • delete the element from your course

• Instructor information including name, office hours, preferred contact methods and times, etc. are key elements of the course Welcome 
• Ensure this information is up--to-date for the new semester, including any date or time changes
• This is particularly important if you are changing instructors for a course! 

Location, Location, Location

• Your instructor information should be presented in detail in a document format, whether a Moodle Page or Book element or an uploaded PDF. However, you can also display the essential elements of this info in short form in other locations on the course page.
• See our "Meet your Instructor" block setup for more details.

• Ensure the Course Syllabus is up-to-date and relevant to the course design you are presenting to students. 
• You might want to create "Course Info" block or element that summarizes key highlights outside the core Syllabus document
  • ie. Class location or Teams link, class hours, short-link to syllabus document
• Additionally, consider developing a virtual resource such as a Graphic Syllabus. 
  • Powerpoint Template
    
  • Canva Template 1
    
  • Canva Template 2