Course Design

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Design Your Course in Seven Easy Steps!

  1. Contact Cindy Yamaguchi (cynthiae@hawaii.edu) or Phineas Kelly (phineas@hawaii.edu) for hybrid and Distance Learning course design support.

  2. Login to Laulima at https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal and click the course's tab.

  3. To add components of a quality online course print out and use the UH Hilo Quality Online Course Design Guidelines.
  1. Add a Welcome page to your course to provide students with important information about course requirements, tool explanations, student resources, and more.
  1. Add a Syllabus, including contact and office hours information; disability statement; and information about how students should conduct themselves.

  2. Add Tools for course content, communication, assignments, exams, and more.
  3. Two week prior to the semester, send out an email to students with important information about your course:

For more assistance:

Laulima Fix-its and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

    • Access helpful solutions and FAQ's from your peers - Send Cindy Yamaguchi your questions and solutions.
      • Communications - Includes giving students access to Discussions on a specific date or time.
      • Grading - Covers how to fix Gradebook so dashes don't make student grades higher.
      • PowerPoints - Includes fixing problems with Impaticized versions not working and alternatives to using Impatica.
      • Syllabus - Covers how to get your online students to read your Syllabus.
      • Testing - Includes how to set an exam for just one student.
      • More Laulima FAQs

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