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The Canvas Learning Management System provides a platform for virtual classrooms for our online students. A Chesapeake Online course is delivered in 7.5, 12, or 16-week sessions and are available in the fall, spring, and summer semesters. The Winterim term offers online courses in this 4-week term. All terms follow the college’s Academic Calendar.
The success of an online course is contingent on the preparation done for the course; therefore, online faculty members are provided a course prior to the course start date. The faculty member must review the course and set up their course information prior to the students obtaining access (expected to be one week before the course start date).
Just as in the face-to-face traditional classroom, online faculty are responsible for reinforcing the program and course student learning outcomes as outlined in the Course’s Core Course of Study document. Online coursework learning activities are expected to support various standards and requirements.
Learning activities in a Chesapeake online course are comprised of the following:
Lectures can be text or videos developed or curated by the course developer. They may include interactive or graded components related to the course learning outcomes.
Readings may come from a designated textbook, journals, articles, or other sources. They may be referenced to the course’s student learning outcomes.
Resources may include PowerPoint slides, YouTube videos, selections from Chesapeake’s Library and other materials maintained by established partners such as Pearson, Khan Academy, etc.
Discussion questions are open-ended and promote faculty-to-student and student-to-student interaction, dialogue, feedback, and understanding of topics that reinforce the course student learning outcomes. Discussion questions for learning activities focus on the Comprehension, Application and Analysis levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Assignments may include written essays, presentations, portfolios, projects, journals, and other tasks that focus on the Synthesis and Evaluation levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Content assessment provide the students an opportunity to be evaluated on the Knowledge and Comprehension levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Content assessments can be multiple choice, true/false questions, essays, links to outside publisher material, journals, blogs, projects, etc.