CURRICULUM & TEACHING SUPPORT
Position your online programs for lasting success.
Magellan's services support the curriculum and teaching practices that drive successful online learning. Clear, engaging courses and practical faculty support keep students moving toward their goals and fuel sustainable program growth.
Built for the full program
Thoughtful curriculum and teaching practices create a stronger foundation for every stage of program growth.
Programs and Services
Support built around your program's priorities.
Begin with a coordinated bundle or focus on the individual service your team needs now.
Coordinated Packages
Jumpstart your progress with a service bundle focused on your goal.
Our packages of complementary services bring you maximum results.
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Online Program Launch and Startup Bundle
Get your program up and running quickly and ensure it’s ready for long-term growth.
Magellan works alongside your team, positioning your program to attract enrollment now and sustain it over time. We align your program vision with the course-level support, faculty guidance, and structural planning needed to bring it to life.
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Regulatory and Quality Compliance Bundle
See how your courses measure up to the standards that matter most.
Magellan identifies the regulatory and quality standards that matter most to you. We work with your team to measure current compliance gaps and develop practical plans for improvement.
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Student Engagement, Retention, and Real-World Value Bundle
Help students stay engaged, motivated, and moving towards their goals.
The Magellan team helps you ensure each student is set up for success, identifying where your current course design creates either momentum or obstacles and then help you implement the most impactful changes.
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Online Teaching Excellence Bundle
Build sustainable strength into your online teaching practices.
Magellan shares knowledge, resources, and hands-on effort to support teaching excellence in every course. Instructors gain tools they can use immediately and insights they can apply over time.
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AI Readiness and Academic Integrity Bundle
Respond proactively to technological advancements and position your team for success.
Magellan partners with your institution to determine where AI should fit into teaching and learning processes. We help convert your philosophy into practical guidelines and implementation that keeps your programs consistently relevant.
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Individual Services
Strengthen the areas that matter most
Each service can stand alone or become part of a broader engagement.
AI-Responsive Course and Program Support
Boost your programs’ value proposition with a future-forward approach to AI.
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Content Creation or Revision
Content that engages every student with real-world value they recognize.
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Course or Program Effectiveness Review
Understand what’s already happening in your courses to plan your next growth steps.
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Course Standardization and Customization Support
Build a sustainable structure to support quality maintenance and academic freedom over time.
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Faculty Guidance
Prepare your faculty to build meaningful, productive relationships with students in any course modality.
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Fleet Courses
Deploy and customize Magellan’s ready-built online courses and start running excellent online programs sooner.
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Instructor Communication Toolkit
Prepare instructors to deliver excellent messaging at scale.
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LMS Organization Support
The Magellan team ensures each course is intuitive and easy to navigate.
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Program or Course-Level Standards Development
Standards that support your institutional values keep everyone working towards shared goals.
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Student Experience Review and Improvement
Analyze your students’ experience and make high-impact updates.
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Teaching Effectiveness Review
Learn what course data says about your instructors’ performance and build a targeted plan for support.
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Template Creation
Consistent formatting for courses and documents reduces cognitive load for a seamless student experience.
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Visual Course Content Refresh
Make your courses’ value impossible to miss from the first glance.
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Case Studies
How a Private HBCU Increased Online Enrollment Nearly 600%
See how Magellan helped build the systems, strategy, and support needed to exceed enrollment goals and create a stronger foundation for sustainable online program growth.
Growing Seminary Enrollment in a Flat Market
A combination of market strategy, performance marketing, and enrollment analysis helped an evangelical graduate seminary achieve four consecutive terms of enrollment growth.
Building an Online Campus into an Enrollment Growth Engine
An embedded partnership across program strategy, marketing, admissions, and student support helped an established state HBCU grow online enrollment by more than 700%.
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AI-Responsive Course and Program Support
Ensure each course addresses AI technology in ways that accurately reflect your institution’s goals.
The Magellan team gathers and analyzes data from your courses and programs to understand how AI already impacts learning. We identify existing wins and opportunities for boundaries, clarification, and training in AI literacy. Your partnership with Magellan helps prepare students for their futures without sacrificing academic integrity and program reputation.
Your team can opt for recommendations or hands-on support with course updates that strengthen your position. From assignment design to resource selection, policy decisions and more, your courses develop a purposeful relationship with AI that benefits everyone involved.
Content Creation or Revision
Gain new course content or improve existing courses to achieve your desired outcomes.
The Magellan team helps you create or improve assignments, assessments, rubrics, resources, and connective elements that support your goals. Our team works alongside yours to align student-facing course content with your mission.
Throughout our strategic partnership, we’ll offer practical solutions based on cutting-edge learning theory, technical knowledge, industry best practices, and data-driven insights. As a thought partner and force multiplier, Magellan facilitates targeted or comprehensive program improvements at scale. Our library of Fleet courses stands ready to deploy into your own program, with customization options that reflect your unique identity and priorities.
Course or Program Effectiveness Review
Reveal a cross section or comprehensive view of your current courses and make data-driven decisions going forward.
The Magellan team customizes our audit approach to your goals and priorities. Our team delivers actionable insights from existing course design, content, assessments, and other elements.
Knowing what is and isn't working is key to improving student retention and outcomes. With data in hand, you’ll be prepared to focus your efforts on initiatives that matter most.
Course Standardization and Customization Support
Prepare your instructional assets to maintain and grow their value over time.
Magellan works with your department to define where course consistency ends and instructor personalization begins. We help you shape a sustainable module that keeps every course focused on shared expectations. We also build in resilience and flexibility to keep your courses relevant as instructors, knowledge, and technologies change.
Faculty gain a reliable model for operating as individuals within a departmental framework. Students experience less friction when moving from one course to the next, and your department knows its investments in existing assets will pay off over time.
Faculty Guidance
Group workshops and 1:1 guidance empower your instructors to share their expertise effectively in any modality.
Magellan’s custom workshops and 1:1 sessions on topics like best practices for online teaching, RSI, and accessibility give your instructors the targeted support they need. We'll provide the tools needed for confident online teaching in the AI era. We tailor our focus and approach to your team and your needs, so our practical support brings you closer to your specific goals.
Your faculty have a wealth of knowledge, experience and passion to share with your students. Magellan helps overcome obstacles like technological barriers, modality changes, and unclear expectations, so that teaching and learning happens naturally and freely.
Fleet Courses
Gain a repository of course content ready to tailor to your institutional needs.
Magellan provides ready-built course maps and populated LMS course shells with online course content that supports your goals. Our team works with yours to achieve any desired degree of customization, centering academic freedom and the student experience while slashing the runway to program startup. Our content is engaging, fully accessible and compliant with RSI standards. In addition, its alignment with stated outcomes and comparability to seated courses is thoroughly documented.
Instructor Communication Toolkit
Equip your faculty with adaptable tools that help students persist and thrive.
Excellence in online teaching is largely defined by routine interactions like announcements, grading feedback, and conversations with students. Magellan helps your faculty share their expertise and voice effectively across every course they teach.
Faculty gain tools that make personalized, compassionate messaging possible at scale. Students experience less uncertainty and more high-value interactions that move them closer to their goals.
LMS Organization Support
Clear a path for every student through every course.
The Magellan team helps to create a shared approach to course organization across your entire LMS. Intuitive, predictable course navigation reduces friction and keeps students focused on their progress.
Your team gains a plan for course organization that makes scaling achievable. Students enjoy less confusion and more confidence that their goals are attainable.
Program or Course-Level Standards Development
Align every growth project with your priorities.
Magellan translates your priorities into practical expectations every team member can meet. A shared definition of quality keeps your program consistent as you build, evaluate, and maintain new content.
Our team helps to clarify what quality means in the context of your program and institution. Clear articulation of your goals helps everyone make course-level decisions with confidence.
Student Experience Review and Improvement
See your courses through your students’ eyes to improve your program outcomes.
Our team performs a targeted or comprehensive course review to pinpoint successes and pain points. We look for high-interest content with clear value for students, strategic technical enhancements, clear organization and framing, and resources and activities that support your stated outcomes.
Our informed guidance helps you launch a winning improvement plan, and our hands-on support adds expertise and capacity where you need it most. Your students gain a clear reason to choose your program over competitors' and boost your reputation organically.
Teaching Effectiveness Review
Gain a deep understanding of how instructors and students interact in your programs and make informed decisions for improvement.
Magellan delivers a targeted or comprehensive assessment of course-level interactions, focused on your unique goals and priorities. Our team analyzes grading feedback, discussions, announcements, and more to identify clear patterns you can learn from and act on.
A sense of human connection with peers and instructors is vital to students’ program persistence and completion. Seeing how interactions currently play out in your courses helps you target faculty support where it's needed most.
Template Creation
Start every course with a structure that works.
The Magellan team guides you in developing shared, repeatable structures that reflect what makes your program and institution unique. Our approach gives course developers an efficient starting point without stifling the individual character and goals of each course.
Your team spends less time making routine decisions and repeating processes and more time creating meaningful learning experiences. Students gain a familiar navigation experience so they can focus on learning in each course.
Visual Course Content Refresh
Capture and hold interest and guide learners through your courses with ease.
Today’s learners want experiences that feel immersive, visually appealing, and easy to follow. Magellan visually reinforces the value of each course through carefully chosen design elements.
Your team can partner with Magellan for expert guidance or hands-on implementation. You’ll gain a repeatable approach to visually enhancing your courses now and in the future. Courses will stand out from competitors’ and deliver a more inviting and memorable learning environment for every user.