Minimum Criteria for Online Courses
| Course Title | Instructor | ||
| Course SIS ID | Instructor email | ||
| College |
| Criteria | Yes | No | NA | |
| A. | A current syllabus is available in the course. | |||
| B. | Instructor’s contact information and office hours are provided. | |||
| C. | Textbook information (with ISBN) and/or other required materials are identified and included in the LMS. | |||
| D. | Expected turn-‐around time in responding to students’ emails is stated (e.g., within 24 hours or 24–48 hours). | |||
| E. | Instructor is active in the course and communicating with students (e.g., logging in a minimum of once a week AND a minimum of 1 hour per week of activity, updates and changes via announcements or e-‐mail, progress and feedback via Gradebook, etc.). | |||
| F. | Assignments are scheduled and have due dates. | |||
| G. | A variety of assessment methods and types are included. | |||
| H. | Use of LMS tools to support course activities/assignments (e.g., announcements, assignments, discussions, conferences, quizzes, etc. | |||
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Adapted from Online Course Basic Checklist on pages 2 & 3 and R. Poulin; 2012, April 20
Poulin, R. (2012, April 20). Is your distance education course actually a correspondence course? Retrieved from https://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/correspondence‐definition/