Google Course Builder: Adapted excerpts

Forward

Planning

1. Plan before you start: What to do in the first 30 minutes
2. Develop content without technology Before you bog down writing code, flesh out all the details of what you want to create
3. Implement the course with technology After you know what you want to deliver, implement it with code, documents, videos, and so on.
4. Comparing tools: When to use email, web forums, etc. in your course
5. Pilot with your target audience Try out your course with sample students before you release it.
6. Optional material
7. Plan your course evaluation Kinds of data to consider collecting and analyzing and general tips for doing so.

Training tutors

1. Using tutors for a large online course and what it takes to support them
2. Tutor essentials Basic information to provide your tutors.

Running courses

1. Managing the student community
2. Announcements
3. Examples of emails to consider sending to students
4. Creating and organizing a forum for student discussions

Evaluating your course

1. Student satisfaction Data to evaluate student attitudes towards the material and their feelings of satisfaction.
2. Student assessments Evaluations derived from student assessments.
3. Reach and engagement Evaluate how many people you reached and how engaged they were.
4. Combine assessment and reach data