Course Design & Organization

Start your course design

Beginning your course design, including strategies for online teaching.

Choose online, hybrid or blended

Deciding between an online, hybrid or blended approach.

Structure your course

How to structure your course, from high level design to a step by step weekly plan.

Facilitate student preparation

Student preparation for a class or lecture is important. But how do I organize this?

Active learning template for reading assignments

How do I design and use reading assignments in a social annotation tool?

Add content

Items can be used to include video, audio, files, text and links in any content area in your course.

Content Visibility (Adaptive Release)

Create rules to control content visibility using Adaptive Release

Course Groups - Advanced Group Tool  

Groups have their own collaboration areas in the course so that students can communicate and share files.

Course Organizer

Create an overview of the course in a calendar like fashion.

Folders

Display a collection of resources, such as text, documents, PDFs, and multimedia, all collected in a single place.

Learning Module

Create an organized collection of material presented with a table of contents.

Import Online Course Template

Nestor template to help you redesign your course to an online education format.

Creating a group assignment

With group assignments in Nestor, students can together hand in one assignment.

Blog/Journal

Blogs and Journals both provide blog like features and functionalities. The key difference between the two is that Blogs are shared within the course, and Journals are usually private.

Discussion Board

Allow participants to engage in online discussions on forums. Discussions are grouped in ‘threads.

Facilitate student preparation⠀

Use collaborative homework assignments

File Exchange

Share files with other members of the group, including the instructor.

Glossary/FAQ

Allow participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, similar to a dictionary. Entries can be searched, browsed, and categorized.

Organize group work

How can I implement effective group work?

Building community

How can I build community in my course?

Users & Groups

Divide the students into groups. Groups have their own collaboration areas in the course so that they can communicate and share files.

Wiki

Wikis allow course members to contribute and modify one or more pages of course-related materials and provide a means of sharing and collaboration.

Add YouTube videos to Nestor

Add a YouTube video to your Nestor course.

Uploading videos to Nestor

Use P2Go to upload your own video’s to Nestor.

Using video in education

Use P2Go to upload your own videos to Nestor.

Email

Send an email to a selection of course participants. This is a send-only tool, you can’t receive emails in Nestor.

Announcements

Send out time-sensitive information to students. You can also send the announcements as an email to students.

Contacts

Display contact information for e.g. instructors, TA’s in the course.

Discussion Board​​​​

Allow participants to engage in online discussions on forums. Discussions are grouped in ‘threads’.

Course Organizer​

Create an overview of the course in a calendar like fashion.

Calendar

Use the course calendar to provide students with dates for course-related events.

Using the Timetable (rooster.rug.nl)

Configure and export (iCal) your own personal timetable and get an overview of all events at the RUG.