How will your course pages be structured? People often become lost in a structure. Not being able to find information is very frustrating for students. They may remember having seen an item somewhere, but cannot return to its location easily.

Structures that go down too many levels are most likely to lose students. Try to not go more than three levels deep. Using a repetitive structure is also helpful. If each module or unit is structured in the same fashion, students quickly develop expectations about where to find content.

Before you enter information on the web, prepare a flowchart showing how the course progresses from start to finish. Include main menu, lessons, pre-tests, quizzes, course map, help, discussion forums, guest books, events calendar and any other components of the course.

The pages containing the course material should be organized in a way that makes navigation easy, simple and consistent and reduces the amount of work necessary for site maintenance.

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