• Transferring traditional curriculum to an online format is not impossible. Guides and publications are available to assist in the transformation process.
• Course content needs to be in IMIC approved Internet formats to ensure multi-platform accessibility.
• Consult the Human Computer Interface Design section.

The IMIC Web site has a list of resources and links to information for Course Designers in the development process. From WebCT regional conferences, of 2001 and 2002, two online publications focus on how to prepare traditional content to be transferred to the Internet medium; WebCT Ordinal Web Delivery Organization Companion [WOWDOC] and ACT [Analyze, Create and Teach a model]. They can be accessed online at: http://www.isu.edu/itrc/handouts.shtml. They were created by an affiliate WebCT user known as the Instructional Technology Resource Center [ITRC] at Idaho State University. The IMIC recommends you review these publications prior to online course development.

Course content and materials vary but may include online text, audio, slide show presentations and video for lecture, assigned reading from regular texts and laboratory assignments with helpful graphics, chat and discussion groups and evaluation sections.

As these major topic areas are defined for a course, a layout is formatted for each of the areas in the course delivery. Each area will then have a standard template or Web page created which can then be “instanced” (inserted with associatively to original so that if changes are required, the single original is all that will need to be changed) into the page or merged to that when a change is needed it can be done easily to the single source document and will not have to be changed on every page.