Design Document for CBT: Managing Large Online Classes

By Karen Hunter

Purpose of the Course Promote faculty management of larger online class sizes through the provision of
tips and strategies to manage an increased workload

Audience Description The target audience for this project would be online facilitators who are assigned to
facilitate larger classes at the University of E-Learning. Staff members within
Academic Affairs would be a secondary audience as they would be able to
disseminate word of the training for the faculty population who are scheduled to
teach these sections.

Major Course  Faculty will examine existing course curriculum for opportunities for
Objectives (Terminal) scalability given the larger assigned classroom.

 Faculty will identify facilitation strategies that are effective in high volume
online classrooms.

 Faculty will apply a feedback approach to maximize efficiency in grading

practices for larger classes.

Course Enabling  List strategies for efficient course design.

Objectives
 Evaluate existing course curriculum for time savings opportunities.

 Identify university policies and procedures related to assignment

adaptability.

 Convert an existing piece of curriculum to reduce the time dedicated to

assessing the assignment

RLO Enabling Identify university policies and procedures related to assignment adaptability.
Objective

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Learning Assessment Learners will participate in a variety of assessments that will help to achieve the
for Course training goals. By using authentic assessments (e.g., graded discussions, quizzes,
and applied exercises), participants will engage in practical exercises that faculty
must complete to show a basic proficiency on key learning points. This will give
the faculty the opportunity to practice what they are learning and create strategies,
tools and resources that will be immediately applicable in their future classrooms.

Learning Assessment To measure the selected RLO, Learners will complete a multiple choice quiz that
for RLO tests their knowledge on the information learned in the corresponding presentation.
Learners will receive feedback upon the completion of the quiz for each response
and can take the quiz as many times as needed to achieve 100%. Learners will
receive a point for completion of the quiz with a final score of 100%.

Instructional Delivery The training would be delivered solely through an online asynchronous modality
method for Course that would combine the use of self-paced tutorials, facilitated discussions and
(overall) practical simulations and exercises. This delivery method would be the ideal fit as
the module itself is geared toward online faculty and the audience is most familiar
with receiving professional development in that format.

Instructional Strategy The specific instructional strategy that will be used for this RLO is a web-based
for RLO tutorial. This will allow for easy access and updates to the materials when
necessary. The tutorial will be designed to be dynamic to the learner, making use of
interactive and static graphics as possibly animations and video that make the
material more engaging.

Media The RLO will include the following media:

 Text

 Graphics: images, visual aids

 Audio narrative

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508 Accommodations The following 508 accommodations will be included when developing this RLO:

 A downloadable transcript will be provided to accompany the audio

narration.

 The user will be able to control the pace of progression through the
presentation.

 Alt + text descriptors will be used for any images.

 Descriptive hyperlinks will be used.

 Presentation design will use the appropriate colors to maximize visual

contrast and account for potential color deficiencies.

 Presentation design will adhere to a consistent theme from beginning to

end.

 Font type and size will follow standards.

Course Structure There will be 3 separate modules to align with the three core course objectives and
Description corresponding units within each of those modules to align with each enabling
objective.

Seat Time of Course 3 days/1 hour per day

Seat Time of RLO 5-7 minutes total

RLO Outline See Appendix A.

RLO Flowchart See Appendix B.

Screens/Pages in RLO Approximately 20 screens in this project. This is just an estimate.

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Knowledge Checks or See Appendix C. The knowledge check will contain 5 questions total:
Other Assessments or
Practices for RLO 1 Dichotomous (T/F, Y/N, etc.)
4 Multiple Choice

Rollovers/click events The estimated number of individual rollover or click event items/objects, outside of
navigation elements.
__4__Rollovers
__5_Click Events

RLO Navigation The authoring tool (Articulate Storyline) will allow for user to selectively progress
through presentation at the user’s own pace by building in paging buttons (e.g.,
next, back, home).

Screen Layouts for Title Interactive – the four guidelines will be

RLO shown with a click or hover over a button:

Content/Instructional Knowledge Check:

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Development Tools Articulate Storyline 360 will be used to complete this project. The storyboard
for RLO template used for the project is one that is commonly used at my place of work.

Ownership Karen Hunter will develop the initial course and will maintain the course. The
course is being developed for and will be delivered by the University of E-
Learning.

Development Time of The overall projected development time for the entire course is 4-6 weeks. For the
entire course and RLO, the specific projected time allotment is 50-75 hours of estimated development
RLO time dedicated to creating the web-based tutorial to include the following
components:

 Creation/editing/development of the content

 Creation/editing/development of the mastery quiz

 Creation/development of interactive tools, animations, graphics

 Creation of script and recording of audio narration

 Design of the presentation

Support requirements The instructional designer will act as the SME, editor and developer of all pieces of
for RLO and course the learning modules.

Project Please sign below indicating agreement with the proposed course plan and
Sign-off [optional] approving start-up of the storyboard and development phases.

Karen Hunter March 2, 2018

Instructional Designer Date

Project Manager/Sponsor Date

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