{"id":6837,"date":"2026-03-04T15:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/teach-online\/?p=6837"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:45:46","slug":"online-course-planning-grid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/teach-online\/online-course-planning-grid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Course Planning Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is the Miami Online: Online Course Planning Grid?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Miami Online: Online Course Planning Grid is a tool that is used by Miami Online Learning Designers and their Course Authors. The Grid serves multiple purposes and organizes important information in an easy-to-find and read format. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Ensures that the course has structural alignment. <\/strong>Via the grid, you can align Course Learning Outcomes, Module Learning Outcomes, learning materials, and assessments. This helps to ensure that CLOs and MLOs are being taught and that the content in the course connects to them. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Prevents content overload. <\/strong>While we want students to learn, overstuffing a course with content can have negative effects, leaving students feeling like they are trying to drink from a firehose. The Grid acts like a checklist where you can make sure that you are meeting the needs of the CLOs and MLOs of the course without overloading modules with unnecessary busy work and off-topic readings or videos. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Improves student navigation.<\/strong> The Grid gives LDs and CAs a quick and easy way to lay out modules. It allows them to create patterns in each module that add structure to the course. By doing this, students learn how to navigate the course within a few modules and manage their weekly time investment need for the course. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Simplest Quality Assurance Process.<\/strong> The Miami Online grid is based on the Quality Matters (QM) grid. The QM grid was created in part to make it easy to \u201ccheck the boxes\u201d for accreditation or internal peer reviews because the logic of the course is fully documented. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Streamline Collaboration.<\/strong> Each course\u2019s Grid is housed in the Miami Online Google Drive. This enables the Grid to be shared between the LD and CA, grants each 24\/7 access, and allows them to work remotely at the same time or separately.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Online Planning Guide Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Miami Online: Course Planning Grid – Course Code<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Every online asynchronous course that is created by Miami Online includes its own custom Grid. LDs make a copy of the ONLA Grid template and update the Course Code for the course they are working on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Course Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    This section of the Grid includes the basic information about the course. This information can be found via Miami University\u2019s Course Inventory Management<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n