Course Design Part 2: Exploring Assessments

Course Description

This digital course, called Exploring Assessments, will help you design effective assessments and assignments to help your students make progress toward course learning outcomes.

Course Learning Outcomes

By the end of this digital course, you will be able to:

• Distinguish between types of assessments
• Design assessments and assignments that progressively build student skills and align with learning outcomes
• Create Create clear assignment instructions that align with learning outcomes

Content

1. Making Learning Meaningful
2. Understanding Assessment Types in Course Design
3. Building Skills and Knowledge for Assignments
4. Checking Your Alignment
5. Making Course Alignment Clear

Expectations

This digital course consists of 5 lessons, which altogether should take approximately 90 minutes to complete. Additional resources or tips for further exploration are provided at the end of each lesson. Each lesson culminates in a knowledge check to confirm what you have learned and to enable you to move on to the next lesson.

Intended Audience

UMD faculty, staff, and graduate students

Digital Badge

By completing this course, you will earn your Course Design Part 2: Exploring Assessments micro-credential. To receive recognition for your efforts, simply explore each page and tackle all knowledge checks within this course.

This badge is an exciting step towards earning your Course Design Practitioner meta-credential from the TLTC’s Teaching Academy.