Checking Alignment & Clarity within Your C-I Course Design

Alignment among your C-I course components—student learning objectives, communication modes, teaching activities, practice/processing and demonstration assignments, and feedback and grading plan—is key to designing a successful C-I course. You want to ensure all these elements fit together effectively and efficiently, and in the manner you intend them to.

Clarity goes hand-in-hand with alignment, and it is just as critical to successfully designing a C-I course. It’s important that newcomers to your course (your entering students!) can clearly see and understand the what, why, and how of your course.

To check the alignment and clarity of your C-I course, take this 5-minute self-assessment.