Course Modalities

Courses at Doane may be offered in a variety of formats. 

The Deans request that all faculty add--at minimum--these three items to their LMS course shells for each term. This is a requirement for all courses, whether or not the LMS is used for active instruction. The minimum information is: 

1. Faculty contact information
2. The course syllabus
3. A basic grade book in which final course grades are posted.

Helpful Definitions: 

LMS - Learning Management System

Doane University uses Canvas

Live Broadcast - Online platform to meet synchronously

Doane University uses Zoom

Asynchronous

Not synchronized: Instruction and learning happen on a student's own schedule which does not require consistent real-time interactions with an instructor. However, it does occur within a specific timeline.

Synchronous

Synchronized: Instruction and learning occur in real-time with an instructor within a specific timeline.

Contact hour

50 minutes of classroom time. For most classes, 750 minutes of contact time is required for every credit hour earned--or 15 contact hours per credit hour. The Department of Education expects that, for each contact hour, a course will require a minimum of two additional hours (100 minutes) of work--or 1500 minutes total for each credit hour. This means that each credit hour represents a minimum obligation of 2250 minutes, or 45 hours.

Online, Hybrid-Online and Hybrid-Ground classes convert some or all of the contact hours to other, asynchronous instructional activity; however, these course modalities will still target a total of 2250 minutes of work for each credit hour earned.