Tech Flex a Step by Step Guide for Planning Your Course

A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE for Planning
Once you are ready to begin planning out a hybrid course, make sure that you have plenty of time to
build and refine it – for the planning process, creating content, and (if possible), piloting the course. As
stated above, creating a successful hybrid course requires a lot more thought than simply taking half of
your existing class sessions and converting them into online activities. Think of a hybrid course not as a
twin of the on-campus version, but a cousin.
Step 1: Start at the Foundation
Every course, regardless of format, has a course description, goals, and objectives. These comprise the
overall picture of the course, and should drive the course’s entire development process, from why it
exists to what students should be able to know and do by end of it. An Introduction to Hybrid Teaching -
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Step 2: Plan Assessments
Determine what major assessments you will use to allow students to demonstrate mastery of the
learning objectives. These should be both the major, summative assessments (projects, portfolios, etc.),
as well as smaller, formative ones (homework, discussions, etc.). You do not need to actually create
them yet; you can simply plan out what they will be and what students will be asked to do. Taken
together, your assessments should address everything in step 1.
Step 3: Create a Course Map
You are now familiar with what the overall goals of the course are, and how you will be assessing for
student learning. Now you can begin laying out how students will get from the beginning of the course
to ultimately achieving its end goals. Create a chart (course map, table, etc.) that sequences what the
units/modules will be, the order they should go in, and what resources and activities you plan to provide
along the way within each module.
Step 4: Plan Activities
Identify activities that capitalize on the strengths of each type of environment (online or on-campus),
and include those in your course map. (Note: While the following activities may work better in one
environment versus another, several can be adapted to both environments.)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. This work is an adaptation of the Introduction to
Hybrid Learning developed by College of DuPage (retrieved on July 16, 2020) from
https://www.codlearningtech.org/PDF/hybridteachingworkbook.pdf.
Step 5: Create/Find Content
Developing online content is the most time-consuming aspect of designing a hybrid course. Plan to carve
out the majority of your course development time on this step. It is here that you will be creating
assignments, finding resources, deciding on readings, writing the syllabus, etc. You have already done
the planning for what all of these things are, and the order in which they will go, so once they’re
completed, just put them in their appropriate place in the course. You may be able to use or adapt parts
activities and resources that you have previously used in other courses. If you decide to do this, be very
careful that it integrates well with the rest of what you are doing; don’t force the foot into the wrong-
sized shoe.
Step 6: Ensure for Quality
At this point, you should have an entire “draft” of your course complete. Now it needs some editing and
refinement.
Consider the following options for this step:
• Have faculty colleagues (preferably, those who have taught online and/or hybrid courses in the
past) and ask them to look at your course.
• Go online and find some quality checklists that apply specifically to hybrid courses and use them
to “grade” your course.
• Talk to some of your current students and ask them to give you feedback on your description of
the course.
• If possible, pilot the course with some willing students or fellow faculty members, and ask them
to provide you with written feedback. Whatever the case, don’t skip this step! Especially if this is
the first or second time that you’re developing a hybrid course, it is extremely important that
you go through some kind of quality review process.
Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. This work is an adaptation of the Introduction to
Hybrid Learning developed by College of DuPage (retrieved on July 16, 2020) from
https://www.codlearningtech.org/PDF/hybridteachingworkbook.pdf.

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A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE for Planning

Step 1: Start at the Foundation

Step 2: Plan Assessments

Step 3: Create a Course Map

Step 4: Plan Activities

Step 6: Ensure for Quality

Consider the following options for this step:

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