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This module lists a number of competencies that should be mastered over time by distance educators. at TWU.

Selected faculty competencies

Competencies you should possess include (but are not limited to):

    Competencies

  • Posting an announcement
  • Sending email within the system to one student or all students
  • Establishing discussion forums
  • Posting responses or moderating discussion forums
  • Setting up groups
  • Uploading content
  • Managing students' assignments
  • Designing exams
  • Developing question pools
  • Grading assignments and quiz submissions
  • Resetting student exams
  • Setting points for assignments and quizzes
  • Sorting and filtering the course gradebook
  • Enabling various settings in your course
  • Tracking student progress
  • Making your course available or unavailable
  • Copying select content from course to course
  • Archiving your course

Acknowledgement

Special thanks to Larry Ragan from Penn State for the idea to include faculty competencies in a course for online faculty development.

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Source:  OpenStax, Promising practices in online teaching and learning. OpenStax CNX. Aug 11, 2008 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10559/1.2
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