{"id":7766,"date":"2021-04-22T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2021-06-14T13:31:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T13:31:16","slug":"nile-design-standards-2021-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2021\/04\/22\/nile-design-standards-2021-22\/","title":{"rendered":"NILE Design Standards 2021\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The NILE design standards for the 2021\/22 academic year were approved at the Student Support Forum meeting on the 15th of April 2021, and have now been published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most significant change to NILE design standards for 2021\/22 is the inclusion of the design standards for Ultra courses (see, &#8216;Section B, Tables 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3&#8217;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The design standards for Original courses remain largely unchanged. The only changes of note from the previous year&#8217;s standards are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Clarification that, should staff wish to, it is fine to update the course landing page from &#8216;About this module&#8217; to &#8216;Announcements&#8217; after the first few weeks of teaching (see, &#8216;Section C, Table 6, About this module [Entry Point*]&#8217;.<\/li><li>Renaming &#8216;Virtual classroom&#8217; to &#8216;Blackboard Collaborate&#8217; and having this area available by default (see, &#8216;Section C, Table 6, Blackboard Collaborate&#8217;).<\/li><li>Removal of the ABL definition from the landing page on programme-level courses (see, &#8216;Section C, Table 7, My Programme [Entry Point&#8217;].<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The NILE design standards for 2021\/22 are available to view at:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/staff\/nile-design\/nile-design-standards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/libguides.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/staff\/nile-design\/nile-design-standards<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NILE design standards for the 2021\/22 academic year were approved at the Student Support Forum meeting on the 15th of April 2021, and have now been published.<\/p>\n<p>The most significant change to NILE design standards for 2021\/22 is the inclusion of the design standards for Ultra courses (see, &#8216;Section B, Tables 5.1, 5.2 and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,12,261],"tags":[56,135,137],"class_list":["post-7766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-design","category-learntech-news","category-nile-update","tag-course-design","tag-nile","tag-nile-standards"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NILE Design Standards 2021\/22 - Learning Technology Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2021\/04\/22\/nile-design-standards-2021-22\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NILE Design Standards 2021\/22 - Learning Technology Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The NILE design standards for the 2021\/22 academic year were approved at the Student Support Forum meeting on the 15th of April 2021, and have now been published. 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