UT Snapshot: Developing a Course Map

Once you have determined your big ideas and student understandings, you can map the relationships between them in a course map. Course maps can have many different formats depending on the structure of your course. Look at the two examples below and map one out for yourself! Digital alternatives for mapping out your course can be found with tools like Popplet Links to an external site.. These brainstorming applications make it easy to quickly map out a course and even share your efforts with colleagues to get feedback and support.

The big ideas and student understandings can be arranged into a course map. See examples from a Biology and Statistics course. 

Course Map for Biology Course

 

Stats Course Design Map

 

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