Welcome to OOL Design Portal!

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This portal is designed to help you navigate the many ways that the Office of Online Learning can support your course design and development. After reviewing the information below, please select your project type from the bottom of the page.

Faculty & Instructional Designer Partnership and Deadlines

The course design and development process takes many weeks to complete, and our instructional design team members are consistently managing multiple course development projects, deadlines, and academic programs.

Accordingly, course development services for online graduate program courses may take precedent over individual/non-program course development requests, depending upon OOL workload. To secure your project in our development calendar, please be sure to submit promptly and review the requirements below. While we will do our best to accommodate all requests that meet submission requirements, please note that submission does not guarantee acceptance.

Complete the LMU eFaculty Certification program in advance of their course development request to the Office of Online Learning, and
Allow for adequate course development time within project submission deadlines as outlined below:

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Developing and deploying new, hybrid/online courses or reimagining a previously delivered course requires a highly collaborative partnership between faculty and course designers. Faculty provide the subject matter expertise and key instructional content, guiding the development of appropriate student learning activities and assessments. In turn, the instructional design team provides faculty with course building support, program alignment, and student-centered learning experiences that address both course and program-level learning objectives.

The duties below highlight the necessary contributions that drive a successful partnership and productive course design experience.

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With timely course request submissions, our office will be able to provide support of various scale for your instructional needs. Please see the menu below to learn more about our services.

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Comprehensive Support

This is for faculty that are interested in partnering with an instructional designer to help create and design (or re-design) an entire course.

Please reference the course development project guidelines above prior to submitting your request.

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Activity / Media Design

This is for faculty interested in partnering with an instructional designer to create one or two pieces of instructional content or an online activity for their course.

Please reference the course development project guidelines above prior to submitting your request.

Term Template for Faculty

In alignment with best practices and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, the Office of Online Learning has created a Term Template to facilitate instruction in different modalities. Faculty are invited to download and use the template for instruction and independent course design.

Online / Hybrid Faculty Toolkit

Here, instructors may find an assortment of tools and self-service resources that support the design and development of hybrid/online learning experiences. This collection of resources are designed to support faculty who wish to engage in independent course development work.

For more information, please contact ool@lmu.edu.