Amber Norwood, an Instructor from CSU Northridge, includes specific information in the syllabus about their role regarding participation in the course by including detailed Discussion Facilitation and Participation Guidelines.

Discussion

Discussion Board Rubric

QM General Standard 3: Assessment and Measurement

QM Standard 3.1, QM Standard 3.3, QM Standard 3.4

San Jose State University

Nik Tehrani, an Instructor at San Jose State University, developed a rubric used for all discussion board assignments. The rubric helps clarify any vague information and helps students understand the expectations. The goal of the rubric is to help students self-improve and inspire better student performance.

Discussion

Collaborative Jamboard Activity

QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction

QM Standard 5.2

QM General Standard 6: Course Technology

QM Standard 6.3

California State University, San Marcos

Kim McCarthy, an Instructor from CSU San Marcos, uses Google Jamboard for class collaboration. Students respond to the question prompt posted on the Jamboard. They then interact with each other by posting a picture, drawing, text, or a "stickie note" in response to the prompt.

Syllabus

HSU Template - Online Technical Skills & Requirements

QM General Standard 1: Course Overview and Introduction

QM Standard 1.6

California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt

Kim Vincent-Layton, an Instructional Designer at Cal Poly Humboldt, created a basic template for all online courses. The template provides 6 tips for success as an online learner, attitude and technical skills required, and minimum hardware and software requirements. This can be modified to fit any class.

Discussion

Structured Group Discussions Providing Roleplaying & Choice

QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction

QM Standard 5.4

California State University, Fresno

Ryan Ditchfield, an Instructor at Fresno State, creatively organizes group discussions providing students an opportunity to self-assign themselves to a group discussion topic that interest them in his "Eyewitness Identification-FTB 159T" class. In the group discussions they have the choice to pick a role - Researcher, Eyewitness, Defense Attorney, Police Officer, Suspect, and Timekeeper and throughout the semester the students will also be changing to a different group and also change their role. This example represents student choice and group roles in discussions.

Illustration / Graphic

Infographic of Communication Policy

QM General Standard 3: Assessment and Measurement

QM Standard 3.5

California State University, Fullerton

Greg Childers, an Associate Professor of Physics at CSU Fullerton, describes in his syllabus his communication policy. He breaks down his communication policy for his office hours, telephone calls and emails. He also shares his policy using an infographic.

Illustration / Graphic

Complex Infographic Description

QM General Standard 7: Learner Support

QM Standard 7.2

QM General Standard 8: Accessibility and Usability

QM Standard 8.3

California State University, Stanislaus

Glenn Pillsbury, an Instructional Designer at CSU Stanislaus, provided this resource as an example of an alternate description of a complex infographic. The infographic describes the interconnected pathways that comprise the health care system in the United States. A simple alt text description would be insufficient and so a more detailed long description was created.

Syllabus

Required Textbook Information

QM General Standard 4: Instructional Materials

QM Standard 4.2

California State University, Northridge

Nanci Carr, an Instructor at CSU Northridge, includes this language in the syllabus stating that a specific edition of the textbook is required. This language lets the students know that if this edition is not used the assignments in the course will not align. The price of the textbook along with the formats available is also included.

Illustration / Graphic

Instructor Learner Profile

QM General Standard 1: Course Overview and Introduction

QM Standard 1.8

California State University, Northridge

Instructor Carmen Saunders-Russell, from CSU Northridge, uses Canva to creatively share her instructor profile. It includes preferred pronouns, words that describe her as a learner, what motivates her to learn, her learning goals for the course, her experience about adult learning theories, and a fun fact about her that you won't find on her resume. Providing a detailed profile humanizes the instructor and creates a sense of belonging in the course.

Discussion

Group Annotation Discussion Using Perusall

QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction

QM Standard 5.2, QM Standard 5.4

QM General Standard 6: Course Technology

QM Standard 6.1, QM Standard 6.3

California State University, Bakersfield

Natalie Thompson, an Instructor from CSU Bakersfield, shares a peer to peer annotation activity using the tool Perusall where students read and annotate a scholarly article. Detailed instructions are provided for the students about the discussion requirements.

Other

Clear Organized HomePage

QM General Standard 1: Course Overview and Introduction

QM Standard 1.1

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Iman Hemmatian, an Instructor from Cal Poly Pomona, shares a homepage that is organized clearly with a college banner, instructor welcome video & transcript, instructions to begin the course including the syllabus, start here, and buttons to access all modules from the course home page.

Other

Course Home Page With Accessible Icons

QM General Standard 1: Course Overview and Introduction

QM Standard 1.1

QM General Standard 7: Learner Support

QM Standard 7.2

QM General Standard 8: Accessibility and Usability

QM Standard 8.3

California State University, Stanislaus

Kanwaljit Dulai, an Instructor from CSU Stanislaus, creates a home page with accessible button icons as evidenced by the green Ally gauge. The first five buttons link to important course pages with resources commonly visited by students. The last five buttons are proprietary to this course and link through to the five unit modules.

Other

Canvas Home Page

QM General Standard 1: Course Overview and Introduction

QM Standard 1.1

California State University, Fresno

Instructor Faith Sidlow from Fresno State, created a redesigned homepage in Canvas that includes 15 buttons along the bottom of the homepage for each week. A clear link to takes the user to the syllabus and also to the start here module. There is also a warm instructor welcome message in the middle of the page along with a graphic and course title.

Other

Clear Homepage Navigation with Accessible Icons

QM General Standard 1: Course Overview and Introduction

QM Standard 1.1

QM General Standard 7: Learner Support

QM Standard 7.2

QM General Standard 8: Accessibility and Usability

QM Standard 8.3

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Manuel Diaz, an Instructor from Cal Poly Pomona, shares a homepage that is clear and accessible with button icons as evidenced by the Ally "green" indicators in the bottom left of each image. Home page has a clear instructor welcome, followed by buttons to access the syllabus, scholar cafe, and weekly module buttons.

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