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The First 5 Minutes Online: Creating a "Start Here" Experience That Reduces Student Anxiety

Four course design steps to a more confident start

Picture a student logging into your course for the first time. They see a homepage with six modules, a syllabus buried two folders deep, and no indication of where to start. So they click around....

Posted: August 20, 2026, 2:30 PM

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