Course Support
Instructional designers can assist instructors in a variety of ways including but not limited to:
- Ensuring course outcomes are effectively met
- Creating authentic and effective assessments
- Creating and facilitating engaging discussions
- Choosing or customizing a Sakai course template
- Building your Sakai course site
- Creating a sense of community and support
- Providing frequent and effective feedback
- Choosing and creating instructional materials
- Selecting technology tools based on course goals
- Creating an orientation to your course
Instructors can choose to work with OOL instructional designers through consultations, requests, or longer-term projects:
- Consultations: You meet with an instructional designer and ask questions about the design, construction, or delivery of your course leveraging the instructional designer’s online teaching expertise.
- Requests: You request a task be completed in your course. For example, you can request a course template be added to their Sakai site.
- Projects: You can initiate a longer-term project with an instructional designer. In these projects, the instructional designer will set goals for the project and a timeline for completion. Examples of projects include course design, course building, or a combination of the two:
- Course design: an instructional designer walks you through the backward design process for your course. This can include composing learning outcomes, creating authentic assessments, designing learning activities, and choosing or creating instructional materials.
- Course builds: an instructional designer uses your course materials, including your course syllabus, to build your course in Sakai.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can I begin working with an instructional designer?
Contact us at online@luc.edu with your name, academic unit, and a brief summary of your goals for working with an instructional designer.
How can I begin working with an instructional designer?
There is no fee to work with an instructional designer for part-time or full-time instructors at Loyola University Chicago.
I need support teaching online, but how do I know who to contact?
Contact us at online@luc.edu with your name, academic unit, and a brief description of the support you are looking for. If we cannot assist you we will put you in contact with another support unit at LUC.
Instructional designers can assist instructors in a variety of ways including but not limited to:
- Ensuring course outcomes are effectively met
- Creating authentic and effective assessments
- Creating and facilitating engaging discussions
- Choosing or customizing a Sakai course template
- Building your Sakai course site
- Creating a sense of community and support
- Providing frequent and effective feedback
- Choosing and creating instructional materials
- Selecting technology tools based on course goals
- Creating an orientation to your course
Instructors can choose to work with OOL instructional designers through consultations, requests, or longer-term projects:
- Consultations: You meet with an instructional designer and ask questions about the design, construction, or delivery of your course leveraging the instructional designer’s online teaching expertise.
- Requests: You request a task be completed in your course. For example, you can request a course template be added to their Sakai site.
- Projects: You can initiate a longer-term project with an instructional designer. In these projects, the instructional designer will set goals for the project and a timeline for completion. Examples of projects include course design, course building, or a combination of the two:
- Course design: an instructional designer walks you through the backward design process for your course. This can include composing learning outcomes, creating authentic assessments, designing learning activities, and choosing or creating instructional materials.
- Course builds: an instructional designer uses your course materials, including your course syllabus, to build your course in Sakai.