Rubric for Online Instruction

Category 1 1 2 3 Score
Course contains limited Course contains Course contains
for online learner adequate information extensive information
support and links to for online learner about being an online
campus resources support and links to learner and links to
campus resources. campus resources.
Course provides limited Course provides Course provides a
course-specific adequate course- variety of course-specific
Learning
resources, limited specific resources, some resources, contact
Support and
contact information for contact information for information for
Resources
instructor, department, instructor, department, instructor, department,
and/or program and program. and program.
Course offers limited Course offers access to Course offer access to a
resources supporting adequate resources wide range of resources
course content and supporting course supporting course
different learning content and different content and different
abilities learning abilities. learning abilities
Category 2 1 2 3
Much of the course is Course is organized and Course is well-organized
under construction, navigate. Students can and easy to navigate.
with some key understand the key Students can clearly
components identifies components and understand all
such as syllabus. structure of the curse components an
structure of the course
Course syllabus is Course syllabus Course syllabus
unclear about what is identifies and delineates identifies and clearly
expected of students the role the online delineates the role of
environment will play in the online environment
the course will play in the total
course.
Online Aesthetic design does Aesthetic design Aesthetic design
Organization not present and presents and presents and
and Design communicate course communicates course communicates course
information clearly. information clearly. information clearly
throughout the course
Web pages are Most web pages are All web pages are
inconsistent both visually and functionally visually and functionally
visually and functionally consistent. consistent throughout
the course.
Accessibility issues are Accessibility issues Accessibility issues
not addressed. briefly addressed. addressed throughout
(Including sight, (Including sight, the course. (Including
mobility, hearing, mobility, hearing, sight, mobility, hearing,
cognition, ESL, and cognition, ESL, and cognition, ESL, and
technical. technical. technical.
Category 3 1 2 3
 Course offer limited Course offer adequate Course offer ample
opportunity for opportunities for opportunities for
interaction and interaction and interaction and
communication communication communication students
students to students, students to students, to students, student to
student to instructor student to instructor instructor and students
and students to and students to to content.
content. content.
Course goals are not Course goals are Course goals are clearly
clearly defined and do adequately defined but defined and align to
not align to learning may not align to learning objectives.
objectives. learning objectives.
Learning objectives are Learning objectives are Learning objectives are
Instructional vague or incomplete identified and learning identified and learning
Design Delivery and learning activities activities are implied. activities are clearly
are absent and unclear. integrated.
Course provides limited Course provides Course provides multiple
visual, textual, adequate visual, textual, visual, textual,
kinesthetic and/or kinesthetic and/or kinesthetic and/or
auditory activities to auditory activities to auditory activities to
enhance student enhance student enhance student
learning and learning and learning and accessibility
accessibility accessibility
Course provides limited Course provides Course provides multiple
activities to help adequate activities to activities to help
students develop critical help students develop students develop critical
thinking and/or critical thinking and/or thinking and/or
problem-solving skills problem-solving skills problem-solving skills
Category 4 1 2 3
Assessment and Course has limited Course has adequate Course has multiple
Evaluation of activities to assess activities to assess timely and appropriate
Student student readiness for student readiness for activities to assess
Learning course content and course content and student readiness for
mode of delivery mode of delivery course content and
mode of delivery
Learning objectives, Learning objectives, Learning objectives,
instructional and instructional and instructional and
assessment activities assessment activities assessment activities are
are not aligned are adequately aligned closely aligned
Assessment strategies Ongoing strategies are Ongoing multiple
are limited in use to used to measure strategies are used to
measure content, content, knowledge, measure content,
knowledge, attitudes, attitudes, and skills knowledge, attitudes,
and skills and skills
Opportunities for Opportunities for Regular feedback about
students to receive students to receive performance is provided
feedback about their feedback about their in a timely manner
 own performance are own performance are throughout the course.
infrequent and provided.
irregular.
Student’s self- Students’ self- Students’ self-
assessments and/or assessments and/or assessments and peer
peer feedback peer feedback feedback opportunity
opportunities are opportunity exist. exist throughout the
limited course.
Category 5 1 2 3
Course uses limited Course uses adequate Course uses variety of
technology tools to technology tools to technology tools to
facilitate facilitate appropriately facilitate
communication and communication and communication and
learning learning learning
New teaching methods New teaching methods New teaching methods
applied to enhance are adequately applied applied and innovatively
student learning are to innovatively enhance enhance student
limited student learning. learning, and
interactively engage
students.
Innovative
There are limited Multimedia elements A variety of multimedia
Teaching with
multimedia elements and/or learning objects elements and/or
Technology
and/or learning objects are used and are learning objects are used
for accommodating relevant to and are relevant to
different learning styles. accommodate different accommodate different
learning styles learning styles
Courses uses Internet Course optimizes Course optimizes
access and engages Internet access and Internet access and
students in the learning effectively engages effectively engages
process in a very limited students in the learning students in the learning
way. process process in a variety of
ways throughout the
course
Category 6 1 2 3
Faculty Use of Instructors offers Instructors offers Instructors offers
Student limited opportunity for adequate opportunities multiple opportunities
Feedback students to give for students to give for students to give
feedback to faculty on feedback on course feedback on course
course content. content. content.
Instructor offer limited Instructor offers Instructor offers multiple
opportunity for adequate opportunities opportunities for
students to give for students to give students to give
feedback on ease of feedback on ease of feedback on ease of
online technology and online technology and online technology and
accessibility of course accessibility of course. accessibility of course.
Instructor uses student Instructor request and Instructor uses formal
feedback to help plan uses student feedback a and informal student
instruction and couple of times during feedback in an ongoing
assessment of student the semester to help basis to help plan
learning for the next plan instruction and instruction and
semester in a limited assessment of student assessment of student
way learning for the rest of learning throughout the
the semester semester.