This self-assessment is designed to help you reflect on day-to-day teaching choices that directly impact student engagement: how you communicate, give feedback, guide discussions, and support progress. It can help you take stock of what you’re doing well and identify a few areas where small changes could make a meaningful difference.

As you work through the assessment, focus on your typical practices in an accelerated course. When you’re finished, you’ll have a clearer sense of your strengths and a few practical next steps to try in your next term.

Create an improvement plan using AI

Want to take your facilitation to the next level? After completing your self-assessment, you now have a clearer view of your strengths and specific areas you can continue to strengthen.

To help you put those insights into action, we’ve created an optional AI prompt you can use to help you reflect, plan, and experiment with online course facilitation. Paste the prompt below into your preferred AI tool to get started:

I’ve just completed a self-scoring course facilitation rubric for my online teaching. 

Please create a short, coaching-style improvement plan for me to use in my next accelerated online course. The plan should include: 

One higher-level growth goal based on patterns in my results. 

Two specific, practical actions I can take to strengthen my online teaching, each paired with a relevant resource or tool drawn from the feedback. 

A simple milestone plan that may include what to do before the course begins, early in the course, mid-course, and at the end. (Please don’t use specific week numbers, since my course length may vary.) 

An encouraging tone that recognizes my strengths and motivates me to improve. 

A reminder that I can always reference my full self-assessment results for more detail. 

Here are my rubric results (each item includes the question, my rating, and the customized feedback/resources): 

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