Title: BYCP2: Introduction
Course: Dev_TOPKIT_SAMPLE_COURSE_Bauer_S_67

Introduction

This activity will take you through the steps of creating your syllabus, setting up the calendar, instructor/course introduction and course expectations. At this point, these documents are works in progress, which you will be able to update and make changes on as you continue building your online course. You will have two options in creating these files. You may create your syllabus and protocols pages from an existing file or from scratch.

Objectives

- Create materials that are accessible to all students.
- Demonstrate the concept of “chunking” documents to make them easier to read online.
- Create a draft of your Syllabus and Course Expectations following the provided templates.
- Create a draft of your schedule using the Assignment and Calendar Tool in Webcourses@UCF
- Create an instructor and course introduction for your students.

Resources Needed

- Webcourses@UCF Development Course
- An electronic copy of your course Syllabus (if you have one created for this course). If you do not have a course Syllabus, you can start creating it during this activity.
- Microsoft Word 2007 or newer

Estimated Time Completion

This activity will take approximately 1-3 hours to complete.

TOPKit Sample Course created by Sue Bauer, John Raible, and Jessica Tojo. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.