Using Online Learn
ing Management Platforms to
design online classrooms,
online teaching, learning and
assessment activities
Enquiries: Prof Shila Mphahlele
✉ emphahrs@unisa.ac.za
Background
Since COVID-19 dictated changes in the education sector globally, countries and institutions
were caught off guard and unprepared, resulting in the need for teaching online. However,
Governments and institutions became more innovative in their thinking as interventions were put
in place to continue teaching and learning. What remains though, is whether all these
interventions were inclusive and accessible enough. Some lessons were learnt from the
pandemic. Policies to address continuity of teaching and learning during crises were developed.
There is a need to equip teachers, lecturers and students teachers with skills to design enabling
online learning environments to benefit learners in the Fourth Industrial Revolution era.
This programme will teach the teachers, lecturers and student teachers with basic digital literacy
skills, how to use and develop Open Educational Resources (OER) to help reduce disparities in
learners’ access to good, quality, open licensed materials. They will also be exposed to different
OER platforms that can be used to design online classrooms and teaching, learning, and
assessment materials.
Modules
Basic Digital Literacy Skills
Working with computer devices
Accessing information online
Communicate online
Participate safely and responsibly online
Create digital content
Collaborate and manage content digitally
Creating and organising online classroom
Create online teaching and learning space on platforms such as Ms Teams, Moodle, Google
Classroom etc
Creating online teaching and learning activities
Create interactive teaching and learning presesentations and videos
Creating online and grading online assessment activities
Create and grade quizes, file upload assigments, forums and other onlineassessments
Activities
Orientation 1
The orientation will include needs
analysis to identify digital literacy levels
of the partcipants 2 Online Support Workshops
Every two weeks, we will hold online
support workshops that will be recorded
Online Learning Activities
on Wednesdays from 16h00 to 17h00.
3
The time is negotiable.
After every support workshop, you will
be given activities in the Ms Teams
Classroom to complete. The completion
of the activities will form part of the 4 Certification
certification. Upon completion of all programme's
activities, you wil receive the certificate
which will also present 25 SACE CPD
points.
Use this link to register
Workshop Schedule
Date Time Activity
26 June 24 17h00 - Orientation: This is the link to join
18h00 the session
03 July 24 17h00 - Working with computer devices
19h00
10 July 24 17h00 - Accessing information online
19h00
17 July 24 17h00 - Communicate online
19h00
24 July 24 17h00 - Participate safely and
19h00 responsibly online
31 July 24 17h00 - Create digital content
19h00
07 Aug 24 17h00 - Collaborate and manage
19h00 content digitally
14 Aug 24 17h00 - Create online teaching and
19h00 learning space on platforms such
as Ms Teams, Moodle, Google
Classroom etc
21 Aug 24 17h00 - Create interactive teaching and
19h00 learning presesentations and
videos
28 Aug 24 17h00 - Create and grade quizes, file
19h00 upload assigments, forums and
other onlineassessments
04 Sept 24 17h00 - Finalise activities in the online
19h00 classroom
Programme Facilitators
Mr Banele Mngqi
Prof Shila Mphahlele
Microsoft
University of South Africa
