Title: Accessing Your Development Course
Course: TOPkit Sample Course Lite > Section: Module 0 - Getting Started

Notes for Course Facilitator

Summary:

This page describes the development course that may be made available to learners.

Suggestions:

- It is recommended that your institution provide a development course for faculty to practice the activities used in this course or apply ideas that are introduced.
- However, If your institution does not provide a development course, please be sure to delete this page.
- Navigating Your Development Course content is provided as an example and should be updated with your institution's LMS materials.

Gentle reminder: Update all content highlighted in yellow to reflect your institution.

Development Course

A development course is an online course shell where you will complete the Build Your Course Activities. Think of this online course as a “sandbox area” where you can begin to develop your actual course. Doing this helps you to gain proficiency with tools and implement best practices such as properly formatting pages, giving you a chance to experiment with the features before going “live” (teaching your course to actual students). Remember that these activities are not simply meant to keep you busy but to prepare you for the unique online teaching and learning experiences that await you.

<Insert directions here for accessing development courses in your LMS>

- Contact your course facilitator/POC if you do not see your development course.
- If you have any trouble accessing your development course, contact your course facilitator/POC.

Navigating Your Development Course

Below are a few additional resources to help you learn how to navigate in and understand the difference between the global and course specific tools.

- How do I navigate a <Replace - Your LMS> ?
- How do I use the Global Navigation Menu?
- What is Course Navigation?

Help Guide

As you build your development course, you may have questions about course tools and how to use them. The Help Guide provides helpful text directions and videos on all the available tools and how to use them.

To access this guide:

1. Click Help in the Help Corner located in the bottom left of your screen.
2. Click Search the Canvas Guides in the new Help window that opens to search for more information on any tool available in .

TOPKit Sample Course was prepared by the University of Central Florida (UCF). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.