Why Teach A Planetizen Course?

14 June 2006 - 5:38pm

Those who know, teach

Do you or your organization currently provide a traditional classroom-based course? Do you have an idea for a course that you would like to teach? Now you can reach a world-wide audience by offering your course on Planetizen Courses, the only place on the Web where you can create, offer and market your own planning-related course. Planetizen Courses provides an affordable, proven, easy-to-use, and entirely web-based system to deliver your course online. In addition, by offering your course on Planetizen Courses, you tap into Planetizen's large community of professional planners, developers, architects, planning directors, policymakers, media, students, commissioners, and interested citizens.

It's easy to design and build courses. Create and edit course content through a web browser, or copy and paste from existing documents to create course materials.
Get full control over all settings for your course.
Set your own course fees.
Review activity reports with graphs to track student participation and progress.
Allow students to upload assignments. Set a specified due date and maximum grade.
Use Chat feature to interact with students in real-time.
Setup polls for students to vote on topical issues.
Use a sophisticated online threaded forum to conduct discussions.
Manage a calendar of events.
Allow students to enrich their learning experience with their own private or public journals that you can assess.
Conduct online quizzes and tests. Create a pool of questions and then generate quizzes with questions selected and shuffled from the question pool.
Automatic quiz grading.
Get feedback from students about your course using online surveys.
Enable students to conduct peer reviews.
Get technical support when you need it.
Many more features to help you deliver an effective online course.

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Design Your Course
Using a sophisticated yet easy to use editing system, you can upload your original course content to the Planetizen Courses website, with help from Planetizen staff.

Manage Your Course
All aspects of your course, from the number of lessons, to the length of quizzes and exams, to the time of online chat sessions can easily be managed using the Planetizen Courses interface.

Discuss
Online discussion forums allow you to interact with students at your convenience, and previous discussions are archived for reference.

Quizzes and Exams
You can easily design challenging multiple-choice quiz and exam questions on Planetizen Courses, and question selection and scoring occurs automatically.

How Do I Get Started

If you are interested in teaching a course on Planetizen, we invite you to prepare a course proposal for review by our editorial team. The elements of a course proposal are as follows: