Ready for 2022 and Beyond
Need help with online or hybrid courses?
We are here to help you take your courses to the next level. We offer support for creating hybrid and online courses as well as evaluating existing online courses.
Designing for Online Instruction
- modality: self-paced facilitated
- location: online
- commitment: 12-15 hrs of coursework
- result: creation of a flexible course
Rolling Enrollment. Created for individuals who do not have an existing online course, participants will learn how to design an online course through backwards design. Instructional Designers from VCU Online will provide feedback on your course elements as you create them.
Register for Designing for Online InstructionBest Practice in Online Teaching
- modality: self-paced facilitated
- location: online
- commitment: 12-15 hrs of coursework
- result: improved online course
Rolling Enrollment. Created for individuals who have an existing online course, this course focuses on aspects of quality online course management; including instructor presence, communication with students, time and work management, and accessibility.
Best Practice in Online TeachingMake sure your course is ready!
Rolling Enrollment. Evaluating your course with VCU's Quality Online Course Rubrics ensures your course is built with research-based best-practices. These reflection-based rubrics builds understanding through evaluation.
Evaluating Quality in Online Courses
- modality: self-paced facilitated
- location: online
- commitment: 12-15 hrs of coursework
- result: understanding and application of the rubrics
Rolling Enrollment. Evaluating Quality in Online Courses is a self-paced, facilitated course designed to introduce faculty, department chairs, deans and other stakeholders in online learning to the evaluation process and rubrics used at VCU.
Register for Evaluating Quality in Online CoursesVCU's Online Course Rubrics

You are welcome to use these rubrics on your own. Learn more about their development and use on our Faculty Resources page.