Outreach and Continuing Education and WesternOnline work with faculty, departments, and colleges to support online development and instruction to bring high quality educational opportunities to students in Washington and around the globe. If you would like additional information on developing online offerings at Western, please complete the at the bottom of the page.
Development Process
- Discuss departmental needs for online development options with your department chair.
- Meet with Outreach and Continuing Education – WesternOnline to investigation development options.
- Receive necessary academic approvals.
- Begin course design and development.
- Outreach and Continuing Education will work with your department and college on departmental teaching schedule of courses (see responsibilities below).
Academic Year Responsibilities
Outreach and Continuing Education
- Initiates Preliminary Authorization to Develop (select online courses only) with contract/compensation details
- Provides faculty support in converting curriculum from F2F to online delivery format
- Handles AYSS Banner course set-up, including unique fiscal coding details
- Fields all inquiries to inform students of the AYSS tuition details
- Works with Financial Aid, Registrar’s Office and Student Accounts re: any related student issues
- Coordinates detailed e-confirmation that goes out to students who do register via Web4U (online courses only); this includes information about accessing Western’s learning management system and distance library resources
- Coordinates fiscal and contracting details including faculty contract and payroll
- Initiates and routes contract and/or H.R. paperwork as required
- Reconciles tuition revenue and coordinates net revenue share model with college
Academic Department Responsibilities
- Verifies Dean’s and departmental committee’s support of AYSS offerings
- Authorizes course offerings
- Approves faculty and curriculum
- Answers any curricular questions that may arise
- If new course, then follows college/institutional procedures for course approval
- Requests and reviews faculty course evaluations according to college policies and procedures
Summer Session Responsibilities
Outreach and Continuing Education
- Initiates Preliminary Authorization to Develop (select online courses only) with contract/compensation details
- Provides faculty support in converting curriculum from F2F to online delivery format
- Fields all inquiries to inform students of the Summer Session tuition details
- Works with Financial Aid, Registrar’s Office and Student Accounts re: any related student issues
- Coordinates detailed e-confirmation that goes out to students who do register via Web4U (online courses only); this includes information about accessing Western’s learning management system and distance library resources
- Coordinates fiscal and contracting details including faculty contract and payroll
- Reconciles tuition revenue and coordinates net revenue share model with college
Academic Department Responsibilities
- Verifies Dean’s and departmental committee’s support of AYSS offerings
- Authorizes course offerings
- Approves faculty and curriculum
- Answers any curricular questions that may arise
- If new course, then follows college/institutional procedures for course approval
- Handles Summer Session Banner course set-up
- Initiates and routes contract and/or H.R. paperwork as required
- Requests and reviews faculty course evaluations according to college policies and procedures
For Additional Details on Planning and Scheduling
Please refer to the EE Course Planning Information site.
Useful Links and Forms
A complete listing of Outreach and Continuing Education eForms can be found on the Web Forms Finder.
- Outreach and Continuing Education – Preliminary Authorization to Develop eForm
This should be initiated by Outreach and Continuing Education after consultations with department and faculty - Outreach and Continuing Education – Planning Document Approval eForm
This form will be initiated by Outreach and Continuing Education after consultation with department - Outreach and Continuing Education – Class Schedule Changes and Corrections eForm
Please use this form to make changes and/or corrections to courses that have gone through the course approval process.
For additional resource for developing and delivery online courses, go to the WesternOnline Faculty Resources Page.