Home is where students go to find everything related to your course. It offers an at-a-glance view of your live course workshops, the asynchronous resources and lessons, and course projects.

Your course Home is populated by information you input in the Events and Syllabus section of your course. You'll create the schedule of live workshops in the Events tab. You'll add lessons and projects organized by modules in the Syllabus tab. Home is automatically organized by week to help guide students through your course. Students will be able to track their progress through the course by marking lessons and projects as complete. Your thoughtful organization will communicate the value of your course and guide students to achieving your course outcomes.

As you build out your course syllabus, you'll focus on organizing your modules, designing lessons, and adding projects. Read on to learn Maven's tips for designing a top notch learning experience through your syllabus.

Your course is organized by modules. A module represents a collection of events, lesson, and projects. We recommend organizing modules by learning objectives, and we suggest sharing the objectives of the module in the description. Doing so will help students see the value of your course content and connect their learning to the goals of the course.

Based on your course's start and end date, Maven will automatically separate your course modules into pre-, during, and post-cohort sections. We've also created a helpful pre-course welcome module to help you orient students to Maven and your course. This module is completely customizable, and it's available in every course.

Within each module, you'll have lessons and projects. In your lessons, you can share readings, videos, images, templates, and more. We recommend building as much as you can within Maven, so students get all the information they need without having to visit external links or documents hosted on outside sites. Your syllabus will be their one stop shop, so make it easy for them to navigate and refer back to often.

How many lessons you have in each module will be largely influenced by the style of your course. If it's a course that's mostly live, you may not have as much asynchronous material for students to engage with outside of your live sessions. If it's a hybrid course, you'll want to invest heavily in the lessons and projects, since both will provide the bulk of their learning and perceived value of the course. You can read more about Maven's recommend course structures here.

Projects are a key part of your course experience. We've found that the highest rated courses on Maven have more projects. Students value the opportunity to apply their learning and create an artifact.

Check out this detailed project from Jeremy Kirshbaum and Lev Gorlev's Generative AI Masterclass. You can read more about the benefits of using projects and how to design projects that students love here.

The live events you host for your cohort will be created in the Events tab. They will show in your Syllabus tab in connection with the course modules. Events show up if they fall within the dates of a specific week of your course.

As a resource for your students, you can add slides before or after an event in the Events tab of your course. You can also upload recordings or automatically share recordings with students by integrating with Zoom. Read more about how to create your Events here.

Once enrolled, students will be able to access your course Home on the student portal open date. You can further gate modules by setting a release date for each in your Syllabus. When students log into your course Home page, they'll see a weekly overview of your course with lessons, projects, and events. As they progress through lessons, they'll be able to mark their items complete and celebrate their progress in your course.

You might want to let students know of a new resource you added or direct students to a session recording - if so, you can share a direct link to each module. Just copy the link from within the syllabus using the link icon. Here's a screenshot for reference:

If you have any further questions about the student Home page, please reach out to [email protected].