📊 RSI Calculator

Federal Compliance + Quality Standards Alignment

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Course Setup

🎯 What is RSI? Regular & Substantive Interaction is a federal requirement for online courses. This tool helps you plan interactions that meet both federal requirements AND quality standards for course design.

🗺️ Drop your Course Map JSON here

Auto-populate course info + get smart suggestions

📂 Drop your saved RSI .json file here

or click to browse

📋 Federal RSI Requirements

Your course must include THREE types of interaction:

🔵 Predictable & Scheduled

Regular, planned interactions (announcements, discussions, office hours)

🟢 Adaptive & Responsive

Timely feedback and responses (grading, emails, adaptive content)

🟣 Facilitative & Guiding

Course corrections and guidance (adjusting content, interventions)

📚 Learn About RSI

Understand the research and federal requirements behind Regular & Substantive Interaction:

Federal Guidance
Research Evidence
  • Jaggars, S. & Xu, D. (2016). How do online course design features influence student performance? Computers & Education, 95, 270-284. [DOI]
  • Dumford, A. & Miller, A. (2018). Online learning in higher education: exploring advantages and disadvantages for engagement. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 30, 452-465. [DOI]
  • Martin, F., Sun, T., & Westine, C. D. (2020). A systematic review of research on online teaching and learning from 2009 to 2018. Computers & Education, 159, 104009. [DOI]
Quality Standards
Key Findings

✅ 5-12 hours/week of instructor interaction supports student success without burnout

✅ Timely feedback (within 5-7 days) significantly improves learning outcomes

✅ Predictable patterns (same day/time weekly) increase student engagement by 40%

Plan Your Interactions

💡 Tip: Click any week to add interactions. Use the interaction library for pre-built options mapped to quality standards.

Compliance Review

Export Your RSI Plan

✅ Ready to Export! Choose how you'd like to save your RSI compliance plan.

💾 Save for Later

Download as JSON to continue editing later. Drag this file back into the tool to resume!

📄 Compliance Report

Professional Word document showing RSI + Quality Standards compliance.

📊 Summary View

Quick overview you can copy/paste into emails or documents.

✅ All changes saved

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Developed by Angela Westmoreland · Fayetteville Technical Community College

Built on federal requirements: 34 CFR 600.2 · WCET RSI Resource Center · Quality Matters 7th Edition (Standards 3.2, 3.3, 5.3)

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