Improving the Quality of Your Online Teaching

Improving the quality of your online course design, delivery and assessment can have a significant impact on student retention, engagement, and learning. Although not an exhaustive list, here are key checkpoints that you can implement in your course and that are informed in research and practice of online teaching such as Universal Design for Learning, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, Usability Principles, amongst others.

Note that McMaster University’s teaching community is encouraged to use Avenue to Learn as their course hub. This checklist refers you to the tools you can use in Avenue to implement the recommendations suggested by McMaster University’s Virtual Learning Task Force.

For more detailed information, please review the sources listed on the References page.