Building Your Online Course: A Blueprint for Success
Confidently create your most successful online course without the constant overwhelm, crippling tech hangups or distressing frustrations of not knowing what to do or where to begin. Check out these course details and awesome bonuses below!
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Building Your Online Course: A Blueprint for Success
Introducing your step-by-step guide to creating a fun, engaging and successful online course in just 6 weeks! The "Building Your Online Course" program brings together everything I've learned about teaching online over the past 8 years including all of the strategies and resources that have proven successful for me AND MY STUDENTS over time. You will learn all my tips and tricks for designing, teaching and managing an online course, but even more importantly, you will receive a comprehensive, meticulous, step-by-step blueprint that you can follow to create your own successful course. The "Building Your Online Course" program will help you to...
Design
Develop the confidence and commitment it will take to design, teach and manage an online course successfully.
Prepare
Create a preparation and time management plan so you can teach online with ease
Innovate
Design innovative, creative and engaging content that will excite and appeal to your students
Module 1
Introduction and Overview
Module 1 provides an overview of this course, why it was created and how to be successful.
Module Highlights:
- Become familiar with the layout of the program
- Orient yourself to the Modules and Resources included in the program
- Formulate a few goals you have for yourself including what you hope to accomplish by completing this program
- This Module includes a handy Goal Planning Worksheet that you can use to stay centered on the goals you hope to accomplish throughout this program.
Module 2
Course Organization
Module 2 will provide a description of the essential elements that should be included in your course to ensure it is well organized.
Module Highlights:
- How your course should be organized for optimal success.
- How to arrange your Course Menu in a way that is convenient for you and your students
- Create a clear starting point for your students with key information that will ensure they start off on the right foot
- This Module includes a Course Prep Task List, an Agenda and Overview Section Template and Learning Activities Template that you can use to properly organize your course
Module 3
Instructional Design
Module 3 provides essential information on how to develop learning objectives, how to develop and curate course content and how to design engaging online assignments.
Module Highlights:
- Formulate course, module, and/or weekly learning objectives
- Describe different types of reading materials, video and interactive content that can be used in the online classroom
- Reframe assignments into alternative, more creative activities hands-on assignments that can be used in the online class
- Identify different types of group projects that lend themselves to the online learning environment and some tips for managing online group work.
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This Module includes a Course Prep Task List, and an Instructional Design Worksheet that you can use to ensure your learning objectives, course content and course activities are all well aligned.
Module 4
Communication and Community Building
Module 4 will present an overview of the different ways online educators can enhance communication in their online courses.
Module Highlights:
- Craft a clear plan to communicate regularly with students throughout the academic semester
- Identify a plan for implementing various options for enhancing communication and community building ranging from the use of course announcements, online office hours and the One-on-One meeting.
- Identify additional tips that can be used to enhance communication in an online course such as sending a welcome message, using student names in communications, reaching out to struggling students, setting clear expectations and developing standard communication forums.
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This Module includes a Course Prep Task List and a Welcome Message Template that you can use to formulate a warm, informative message to your incoming students.
Module 5
Preparation and Time Management
Module 5 provides a description of different ways to manage your time effectively when teaching an online course including tips on how to prep your course in an organized way, how to manage grading and how to follow-up with students effectively.
Module Highlights:
- Design a Course Syllabus tailored to the online mode of instruction
- Summarize the steps you can take to best manage your time and prepare your online course both before the semester begins and during the semester.
- Develop a schedule and plan for course prep and time management before the semester begins and during the semester
- Create a schedule and plan for grading during the semester using various types of strategies to manage the workload of grading in an online course.
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This Module includes a Course Prep Task List and a Course Prep Calendar Template that you will use to layout all of your course prep and teaching activities that must be completed before and during the semester.
Module 6
Infusing Ed Tech Tools to Enhance Your Online Course
Module 6 will provide an overview of what Ed Tech Tools are, how you can use them to enhance your course activities and instructor communication and how to select the right ones.
Module Highlights:
- Select Ed Tech Tools that can be used in your online course to enhance your course learning content
- Select Ed Tech Tools that can be used in your online course to enhance your course activities and best practices around their use
- Create a communication plan that includes, video messages and overviews, virtual office hours and meetings and providing audio/visual feedback.
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This Module includes a Course Prep Task List and a special Ed Tech Tool Resource Library that identifies different Ed Tech Tools you may want to explore to enhance your online course.
Module 7
Putting it All Together
Module 7 puts all the pieces of our journey together and provides an opportunity to finalize your course prep and teaching schedule.
Module Highlights:
- Provide an overview of what you have learned in the program
- Finalize and implement your course prep plan
- Develop and finalize a schedule for all teaching-related tasks for the upcoming semester
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In this Module you will also revisit your Goal Planning Worksheet to ensure that you accomplished your initial goals and are well on your way to accomplishing your overall goal of designing, teaching and managing a successful online course.
Bonus 1
Wrapping Up The Semester And Preparing For The Next
You will also have access to a special bonus module that will show you how to wrap up the semester in a way that will help you to prepare for the next semester (or the next time you teach this course). With this bonus you can continue developing and enhancing your course by changing the things that didn’t work out so well and adding some things that will make it even better. So the next time you teach this course, 90% of your course prep will have already been done!
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Bonus 2
Creative and Engaging Assignment Packet
The Creative and Engaging Assignment Packet is chock full of examples of innovative and engaging online assignments including the full instructions, overviews and links to the related resources for each assignment.
These are assignments that I have used in my own online classes and they are great to use for sparking ideas of your own and tweaking them to meet your own needs.
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Creating A Mini-Lecture For Your Online Course
Of course, we don’t want to have a 2 hour online lecture, but why not create small mini-lectures of your content that can be delivered online? So I created this short workshop on how to create and deliver a mini-lecture for your online course.
You can get your hands on this bonus simply by enrolling in the Building Your Online Course program!
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Don't forget about all of these supplements, templates and downloadable files
In addition to the full course and all these awesome bonuses, you also have access to the following additional features...
Here’s what you’re getting when you enroll today:
Building Your Online Course- A Blueprint for Success - A $1,497 Value
Module 1: Introduction and Overview
Module 2: Course Organization
Module 3: Instructional Design
Module 4: Communication and Community Building
Module 5: Preparation and Time Management
Module 6: Infusing Ed Tech Tools to Enhance Your Online Course
Module 7: Putting it All Together
PLUS all the corresponding Audio Files, PDF Guide of the Course Slides, Full Transcripts, Templates and Step-By-Step Video instruction including...
- A Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) Tech Library that provides step-by-step video instructions of how to set up your course using the Blackboard LMS
- A Creative and Engaging Assignment sample at the end of each lesson.
- A Course Prep Task List for Modules 2-6 that lays out all the essential tasks you must accomplish in order to successfully complete that respective module
- A handy Goal Planning Worksheet that you can use to stay centered on the goals you hope to accomplish throughout this program
- An Agenda and Overview Section Template and Learning Activities Template that you can use to properly organize your layout in the Blackboard Learning Management System.
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A Welcome Message Template that you can use to formulate a warm, informative message to your incoming students.
- A Course Prep Calendar Template that you will use to layout all of your course prep and teaching activities that must be completed before and during the academic semester.
- An Instructional Design Worksheet that you can use to ensure your learning objectives, course content and course activities are all well aligned.
- A special Ed Tech Tool Resource Library that identifies different Ed Tech Tools you may want to explore to enhance your online course.
As a bonus all students will also receive...
- Bonus Module- Wrapping Up The Semester And Preparing For The Next-tips on how to effectively wrap up the semester in a way that keeps you prepared for the next semester. A $97 Value
- Creative and Engaging Assignment Packet- chock full of examples of innovative and engaging online assignments including the full instructions, overviews and links to related resources - A $47 Value
- Bonus Module- Creating A Mini-Lecture For Your Online Course- This is a short workshop on how to create and deliver a mini-lecture for your online course. A $47 Value
When you add it all up that's a real world value of $1,688.
But when you enroll today, you’ll get access to everything for just:
$497
$297
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Frequently Asked Questions
This training program was made for educators in the area of higher education who teach fully online for an academic institution. Since most of the examples and sample assignments come from my own online classes, nurse educators would get the most out of this course, but educators in any field can also find value in this program.
This program was tailor-made for educators who teach using the Blackboard Learning Management System. Educators who use different Learning Management Systems may still find value in the program, HOWEVER, many of the step-by-step videos that will walk you through your course set-up will not be applicable to you. If you require assistance with the technical aspects of course set-up and do not teach using the Blackboard LMS, I DO NOT recommend using this program.
Not to worry. If you teach using the Blackboard Learning Management System, you can refer to the tailor-made Tech Library for assistance with all your tech needs from course set-up to course management.
Hi, I'm Natasha Nurse-Clarke
I've been teaching online courses since 2012 but I've been taking online classes as a student for a much longer period of time. I remember being frustrated as a student in an online class where I did not understand what was going on and I have also experienced being frustrated as an educator teaching an online class where I still did not understand what was going on!
I am hoping to spare both you and your students some of that frustration. I know all too well the consequences of a poorly designed course for a student and the the effects of a poorly managed course for an instructor.
If you're committed to teaching, designing and managing your most successful online course, I can't wait to help you get there faster and with more ease.
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