Online Courses
Online courses generally do not require regular classroom attendance. Students complete course requirements at home using a range of technologies, including Web-based course tools, videotape, and telephone.
Planning Your Course
Explore instructional technologies that best support your learning objectives, ideas for creative learning activities, new options in student assessment and more.
Learning activities and instructional tools
Library services for faculty
On-site, proctored exams
Building Your Course
Detailed steps for creating your learning materials using the available instructional tools–and how to get help.
Blackboard
Blackboard can be used for asynchronous courses or for developing supplementary materials for courses taught over ITV, compressed video or, traditional classroom instruction.
E-Mail
IMP is an e-mail program that lets you read and send e-mail using a Web browser. You can access your e-mail from anywhere you can get to the Web.To use IMP, go to http://mail.maine.edu/ and click the link to IMP.
UNET staff provide software and computing support for faculty teaching online.
Telephone Bridge
The phone bridge enables students to converse with one another or with their instructor via a toll-free line, and is available on a first-come first-served basis.
| Course Planning Timelines |
| Informing your Students We offer several ways to communicate with your students before the start of the semester |
| The First Week Ideas for getting your course off to a good start. |
Assessment & Evaluation Blackboard's assessment tools |
| Blackboard Support & Documentation |
| Powerpoint Guidelines for online courses Video & Streaming Media |