significantemployee benefit. All of these positive factors contribute to the persistence and desirability ofonline courses. There are also challenges to online learning, and these challenges are whatmotivates the desire to increase engagement. Even more so, the past two and a half years havemotivated many universities to temporarily transition from traditional in-person instruction tomostly virtual instruction. This transition involved developing new approaches to pedagogy aswell as student assessment. During this same time period, there has been an unprecedented growthin student usage of online support materials and support services. This paper focuses on howVirginia Tech, a large mid-Atlantic university is developing a signals and systems course in online