Meet with an Instructional Designer

Academic Outreach’s Instructional Designers (IDs) are available to support online course instructors with course design, instructional planning, and with digital accessibility compliance.

These one-on-one consultations can begin at any stage–whether you are adjusting a current course or designing a new one–and can continue throughout your online teaching experience.

Find My Instructional Designer

  • Each Instructional Designer is assigned to a specific school or department, ensuring you have a dedicated point person for your needs.

IDs most often work with online instructors in-person or via phone, email, and Zoom.

Find your ID, or send general inquiries to teachonline@olemiss.edu.

Delene White
Email: dmcase@olemiss.edu

Schedule appointment
  • College of Liberal Arts
  • School of Education

Jessica Bryson
Email: jlbryson@olemiss.edu

Schedule appointment
  • School of Business
  • School of Accountancy
  • School of Law
  • School of Journalism and New Media

Wan Petchroon
Email: wlatarta@olemiss.edu

Schedule appointment
  • School of Applied Sciences
  • School of Engineering
  • School of Pharmacy
  • General Studies
  • Provost/University Program

Consulting with an ID

Consultation Overview

One-on-one consultations focus on a problem or topic for discussion and typically last 30 minutes to an hour. Consults are conducted mostly via Zoom or in-person.

Instructors can find their ID in the chart above and schedule a time through the online calendar.

How IDs Can Help

  • Improve your course design for online learning
  • Incorporate best practices in online teaching
  • Revise or redesign a course for online and hybrid formats
  • Refine course structure and organization
  • Brainstorm learner engagement ideas, teaching methods and strategies
  • Find and use new instructional tools
  • Tips on using Blackboard

Example Consultation Process for Designing a New Online Course

  1. Initial meeting
    Course planning: format, expectations, student needs, challenges and learning barriers; establish timeline
  2. Course design discussion
    Syllabus development: learning objectives, assessments, active learning and learner engagement, course structure & outline, content organization & chunking, media planning, learning tools selection
  3. Course development discussion
    course material selection and creation, video recording, available tools for content creation, tool tips, accessibility requirements
  4. Course building in Blackboard
    using and customizing course template, posting course materials, course navigation and consistency, gradebook set up, audio transcription and video captioning, Ally course accessibility score
  5. Course launch
    enabling Blackboard, activating Ultra, copying course, dates and availability settings

Get Started Working with an ID

New instructors are introduced to their assigned ID through newsletters and information sent after completing the Online Teaching Endorsement course, but you may reach out as soon as you know you will teach online. 

Next Steps
To request a consultation, schedule a meeting with your assigned ID through the Calendly links provided.