The purpose of these guidelines is to help UF faculty
members improve their online teaching experience and
to encourage effective engagement of students in the
online learning environment. It can be used as a guide while
designing and reviewing Blackboard distance
learning courses.

These guidelines are divided into ten categories,
which are listed in the navigation bar to the left.
When a category is selected, the details within
that category will be displayed.

We hope you will browse through and enjoy using
all of the information offered.

* These guidelines are developed based on the Guiding Principles for Faculty in Distance Learning http://www.ihets.org/learntech/facprinc.html#course (No longer available online) with some additions and modifications.

** The development of these guidelines was partially funded by US Dept of Education PT3 grant award.