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Description: The number of online courses offered by institutions of higher education has been increasing sizably in the 21st century. As we write this paper in 2020, though, the prevalence of online courses is taking an unexpected upturn as the global COVID-19 pandemic has led to a sudden and near universal transition of in-person courses to remote, online delivery. The specific goal of this paper is to share, in a timely manner, our experiences and insights from teaching an online course on animal learning and cognition for the last seven years. A broader goal is to provide a resource that not only benefits instructors in the present circumstances but also supports course development, review, and redesign – for both on-campus and online curricula – into the future. To these ends, we discuss course organization, learning outcomes, activities, assessments, and considerations such as accessibility and academic integrity. We end with a ‘call for community’ of instructors who share teaching resources, and we hope that this paper, and its associated supplemental materials, may serve to support this endeavor. This paper has been accepted for publication at the open-access journal Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews (https://comparative-cognition-and-behavior-reviews.org/vol15_kuhlmeier_karasewich_olmstead/) we've included the preprint in the files below.