High quality online learning experiences

Foundational offerings

Foundations in effective online teaching

This micro-certificate series provides foundational skills for developing high-quality teaching and learning opportunities:

• Teaching Online @NAU
• Teaching Online @NAU: Best practices

Best practices and expectations

This resource provides a bulleted list of best practices, features, and tools that lead to quality online learning experiences. It was developed by a committee of faculty, instructional designers, and campus leaders in online education and was endorsed by the Faculty Senate in April 2020.

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Faculty-focused initiatives

NAU Course Shell

The NAU Course Shell is a resource to promote standardized organizational features across Canvas shells. The template includes placeholders and prompts aligned with best practices for online teaching and learning at NAU and offers a shortcut to course building and design.

Course development checklist

This checklist is a tool for faculty to use in self and peer reviews of their course design. It synthesizes content from NAU’s internal online instruction policies, Quality Matters Rubric, and NAU’s best practices for online teaching and learning.

Course design documents

This is a helpful series of documents developed by NAU Online and Innovative Educational Initiative instructional design teams to assist faculty in developing their courses.

Best practices for online teaching at NAU

Consult our best practices to reflect our commitment to providing students with high-quality and equitable online learning.

The Faculty Symposium is offered fall and spring every year.

Student-focused initiatives

Learning Online @NAU

This self-paced course provides an Orientation to online learning for students in technical instruction, and the essential time and self-management strategies that enable students to thrive in an online learning environment.

Learning Online @NAU for Graduate Students

In consultation with campus partners, a revised version of the Learning Online @NAU content has been created specifically for graduate students.

Best practices for online learning at NAU

Consult our best practices for student learning and additional methods to communicate expectations for co-creating a high-quality online learning experience.