The schools I work at have online platforms to share class announcements, content like the syllabus or articles to read, and keeping a gradebook accesible for my students. I am pretty used to using them after four semesters, but next semester I will be teaching an online class that will have me using the platform for everything.
The community college mandates we take a three month course to be qualified to teach online and I am officially halfway through...thankfully. I realized, as I have been completing 10 hours worth of assignments a week, that having a blog all these years has been preparing me to teach online. I am used to making categories, new pages of information, and sharing all kinds of files. Most importantly, I am very used to trying to make things cute. This is far from the most important aspect of higher education...but, boy, is it important to me.
My collection of digital kits and free fonts helped me design a banner for the entry page of the class and I used my stack of books image for the PDF of my welcome letter. Of course then I needed to coordinate the color codes of my "Start Here" page titles with the colors in stack of books. I wish I could also use numerous colors in my navigation menu, but it only allowed one. It was a big decision.
Then I decided I needed to find cute images to upload with assignment links. The light-bulb is for a sample quiz we needed to set up for colleagues in the class to take. Mine included multiple choice questions like, Sociology is: A) The very best subject B) Super cool C) Lots of fun D) All of the above.
Guess what the answer is?