Learn.UQ Course Site Design Guideline Resources

To support course coordinators adopt a new Blackboard template and course design guidelines, a number of resources were produced.

Available resources

• Course Site Design tool page
• UQ Course Site Design Guidelines - Summary (PowerPoint)
• Learn.UQ template overview (YouTube, 11m 42s)
• UQ Course Site Design - Required (YouTube, 4m 02s)
• UQ Course Site Design - Enhanced & Required (YouTube, 5m 44s)
  • Welcome and Menu (YouTube, 57s)
  • Course Staff (YouTube, 57s)
  • Course Help (YouTube, 1m 12s)
  • Learning Resources (YouTube, 2m 34s)
  • Assessment (YouTube, 1m 56s)
• Top 7 Course Design tips (PDF)
• Top 7 Course Design tips (interactive PDF)
• Course Site Design Exemplar
  • ​This exemplar course was created with the kind permission of Dr Josephine Previte, UQ Business School, who allowed us to use the framework of the MKTG2501 Consumer Behaviour course as its foundation. 
  • Note: The exemplar course was used as the basis for the Learn.UQ Basic workshop training courses and the student Introductions to Learn.UQ (Blackboard) workshop training courses.
• Instructional videos - step-by-step videos on all the skills need to implement the new Course Site Design guidelines
  • Create a Banner (YouTube, 2m 36s)
  • Add an Announcement (YouTube, 3m 40s)
  • Add Course Staff (YouTube, 2m 39s)
  • Make a Course Available (YouTube, 2m 18s)
  • Set up Learning Resources (YouTube, 3m 23s)
• Course Coordinator Site Checklist (online and handout versions)
  • Online Self-Assessment Survey
  • Checklist Handout
• Learn.UQ Course Site Navigation student guide and video
• Updated Learn.UQ Basics workshop participants guide
• Online Learn.UQ Basics workshop

Best Practice Guidelines for Online Learning Delivery

This project was funded by the DVC(A) as an initiative to implement the Best Practice Guidelines for Online Learning Delivery at The University of Queensland as endorsed by the Teaching and Learning Committee and Developed by the working party: 

• Associate Professor Susan Rowland (Chair from 20 June 2016*) 
  Deputy Director, Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation and School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences 
• Associate Professor Peter Newcombe (Chair until 20 June 2016*) School of Psychology 
• Dr Simon Collyer
  Manager, Teaching and Learning Support, Information Technology Services 
• Mr Christopher Frost
  eLearning Coordinator, Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty 
• Ms Ailsa Dickie
  eLearning Training Coordinator, Teaching and Learning Support, Information Technology Services 
• Mr Dominic McGrath
  Learning Designer Team Leader, Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation 

View the Working Party Interim Report for further information.