Chapter 8: Exploring the Instructor Role

In the previous chapter, you achieved an important milestone: learners are now taking courses on your Prime account. While some of these courses involve only self-paced asynchronous activities that can be managed entirely by the system, other types of activities require human intervention.

First of all, there are the (face-to-face or virtual) instructor-led classes. Obviously, you need an instructor to conduct them. But that's not all. Instructor-led classes also require attendance and waitlist management, as well as sending reminders and additional resources (such as prep work, maps, access badges, and so on) to participants.

There are also the file submission activities that require submitted files to be reviewed by an instructor, and the checklist activities that also require human intervention to be marked as completed and successful.

The primary task of the instructor role is to follow up on these activities. As discussed...