In this chapter, we've learned the best way to develop and configure your course for instructor-led cohorts, which are the most commonly found online courses at colleges and universities. We chose cohort-based courses because they are very popular when students are working together on a topic that requires time to develop skills and knowledge. Cohort-based courses are often very useful in a corporation or training organization because they involve individuals who may be working together in teams or across the organization.
We've learned how to configure global settings so that your courses can maintain clarity with respect to what students must study and achieve. We've also looked at how to configure the settings so that your instructors are able to communicate in a number of different ways, given that students may have different social networking preferences...