Design Engaging Pathway Course

Some course design tips for institutions and instructors to make your Pathway course more engaging:

At the beginning of the course:

Record a course walk-through video and include it in the course Introduction. This will help course members navigate through the course and understand learning expectations and requirements.
Create a netiquette lesson to announce guidelines for learners to interact with each other through the social learning activities on CN. This will help set up a positive learning environment for everyone. You may use a Show a Poll activity type to invite learners to reflect on the most important rules and add suggest additional rules.
Create an activity to let course members build a basic version of their ePortfolio, such as uploading a profile picture, adding a bio, completing basic information, and adding a few skill tags. This will help them get to know their peers and interact with each other throughout the course. Here is the tutorial on building a CN ePortfolio https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006596567
Create a Post activity to let course members introduce themselves to the class. Encourage them to share pictures and/or use the CN Recorder to include a 1-minute self-intro video. Course instructors may create the first post as an example.
Create a background survey using the Poll tool to help course instructors know their students and help course members know their class.

Use the Post and Poll activities to keep members engaged and interact with each other
Use the rich text editor to embed various engaging sources, such as images, videos, and external interactive learning content.
Create assignment submission activities to have learners to produce something and provide feedback. The activity can be marked complete based on submission, instructor approval, or minimal points (require score-based grading). Encourage students to present understanding in multiple ways. CN supports file uploads, text, drawing an image, recording a short audio, recording a short video, and external tools.
For a major project or deliverable, ask students to create a Showcase on their ePortfolio https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/115007087087 and then share their Showcase URL or ePortfolio URL with the class through a Post activity.
Award lesson completion badges to give incentives and recognitions along the way

Set up a course completion deadline in Basic Course Settings
Set up course completion rewards: badge or certificate (for licensed institution course only). This is a very important mechanism to increase course completions.