Providing a recognisable and repeated organisational structure will facilitate learner access to your material. This guide suggest ways you could go about this and provides a design template to get you started. Organising the content of your unit Think about ways you could best categorise your unit content. This sample organisational plan charts the basic information which students need to have about a unit. Introduction When introducing your unit to new students you need to give them some idea of the scope of the unit and what you hope to achieve with it.
Students find a statement about aims to be a helpful overview.
In addition, if you provide a summary of the unit in the form of a study timetable you will be presenting an entire overview of the unit in one screen which will help students to stay on track and to check on their progress. A study timetable that includes hyperlinks direct to topics will support student navigation through the unit. It is also very important, particularly in an online environment which can appear cold and impersonal, that you introduce yourself and establish a sense of human interaction. In a multimedia environment, there are many interesting ways you can do this. Look at some sample units in Murdoch Online to see how others have organised and presented introductory information.