Instructional Materials
NC Checklist for Course Sites – Resource Library
The instructional materials support student learning
| Criteria | Resources for Implementing |
|---|---|
| Is there a variety of relevant instructional materials that may include textbooks and other publications, instructor-created resources, websites, and multimedia? | |
| Are the course materials suitable for online delivery and have they been adapted where applicable? | N/A |
| Is there a clear explanation of which materials and resources are required and which are optional? | |
| Do the instructional materials represent up-to-date thinking and practice in the discipline? | N/A |
| Optional: Are any older materials used in the course considered foundational or used to demonstrate past practice or disciplinary changes over time? | N/A |
| Are the course materials in smaller chunks to facilitate reviewing, locating, and updating information? | |
| Optional: Are learners provided with estimates of how long each learning activity should take? | N/A |
| Are learners provided with explanations of how the instructional materials, resources, technologies, and learning activities are used in the course and will help them achieve the learning objectives? | |
| Are details on how to use course materials and what to focus on provided? | |
| Are the course materials organized into folders or modules, based on week or unit, to make them easy for students to find and review? | |
| Optional: Are the weekly or unit folders or modules linked from the course menu to facilitate navigation? | |
| Optional: Do the course material titles begin with a verb indicating what learners are to do with the materials – “READ”, “WATCH”, “COMPLETE”? |
All instructional materials used in the course are appropriately cited
| Criteria | Resources for Implementing |
|---|---|
| Has permission has been obtained to reuse/modify copyrighted material or does the use of the material meets the criteria for fair dealing in Canadian Copyright Law? | |
| Are sources for materials used in the course clearly identified and cited? Are citations are applied to instructor-created materials, publisher materials, textbooks, images, graphic materials, tables, videos, audios, websites, and other forms of multimedia? | |
| Do citations include, at a minimum, the author; date of publication; resource title, if supplied; and URL or source? | N/A |
| Do citations for instructional materials model the practices learners are expected to follow for documenting references? | N/A |
Course content and required documents are created and shared in an accessible format
| Criteria | Resources for Implementing |
|---|---|
| Were “check accessibility” options used when creating course documents to ensure that information can be consumed without barriers? **Note** this option can be found within O365 documents at no additional cost. | |
| Are scanned documents provided in an accessible format? | |
| Do non-decorative images include an alternative (alt) text that presents a meaningful text description of the element? | |
| Are text, images, and sounds clearly distinguishable from their background and have elements other than color alone been used to highlight important elements? | |
| Do course content and document headings utilize heading styles (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.)? | |
| Are links, files, and multimedia labeled with easy-to-understand, self-describing, and meaningful names? | |
| Are students made aware of accessibility services and supports that are available to them? |