Gοοgle coursebuilder

1. Before you start
2. Define your program
• Google: Plan before you start: What to do in the first 30 minutes
3. Plan structure and sequencing
4. Consider web-design factors (if you're not using Moodle)
5. Plan evauation
• Google: Plan your course evaluation Kinds of data to consider collecting and analyzing and general tips for doing so.
6. Draft your materials
1. Create a metaphor
2. Brainstorm activities and ideas
3. About drafting your information | Google: Develop content without technology Before you bog down writing code, flesh out all the details of what you want to create
4. Outline of what’s needed in a Moodle lesson
5. Interactivity: what doesn't work
6. Proof-reading
7. Implement
• Google: Implement the course with technology After you know what you want to deliver, implement it with code, documents, videos, and so on.
8. Field-testing | Google: Pilot with your target audience Try out your course with sample students before you release it.
9. Optional course material
• Google: Optional material
10. Training tutors
1. Google: Using tutors for a large online course and what it takes to support them
2. Google: Tutor essentials Basic information to provide your tutors.
11. Running courses
1. Google: Managing the student community
2. Google: Announcements
3. Google: Examples of emails to consider sending to students
4. Google: Creating and organizing a forum for student discussions
12. Evaluating your course
1. Google: Student satisfaction Data to evaluate student attitudes towards the material and their feelings of satisfaction.
2. Google: Student assessments Evaluations derived from student assessments.
3. Google: Reach and engagement Evaluate how many people you reached and how engaged they were.
4. Google: Combine assessment and reach data
13. Updating

Appendix 1 : Toolkit of activity ideas
Appendix 2 : Google: Comparing tools: When to use email, web forums, etc. in your course
Appendix 3 : Collation of Google course builder excerpts

See also University of Leicester's Learning Design Toolkit (Link opens new window)