Let’s Get Ready for Summer! Moving Rapidly to Remote Instruction
We want to give a huge shout out to all instructors who made the shift to remote instruction with lightning speed so we could finish out the spring semester! As the parent of a graduating senior, I am so appreciative of everything you are doing so all of our students...
LMS Governance Committee Recommends Avoiding Online Proctoring Solutions
The LMS Team have had several requests to launch online proctoring tools. We researched the issue and presented the options to the LMS Governance Committee. The committee, after consideration of the market leader, Respondus, put forward the following recommendations...
Prepping for Finals Workshops This Week
The end of the semester is quickly approaching and these challenging times require that we rethink our final assessments. The CFC team is here with four different workshops that will help you rework your assessment for the online environment.
CFC Open Sessions for Online Design and Blackboard
Open Help Sessions for All Instructors The CFC is hosting additional open sessions for all instructors to learn how to effectively facilitate online learning and engage students using Blackboard and its general suite of tools. We will be offering these sessions...
Communicating and Engaging With Your Students
We encourage maximizing asynchronous communication for almost everything. There are many great ways to use Blackboard Collaborate (or Zoom) for limited real-time communication. Here are some standard best practices (tried and true from more than 20 years of online...
Faculty Planning Tools – Making the Shift to Online
The Coulter Faculty Commons has developed a planning organizer for faculty use for the remaining spring 2020 term. The simple Word document contains weekly dates and boxes for each week remaining in the term. Faculty can use the...
The PLEA for using just-in-time over in-real-time teaching modes!
It is easy to just assume that you will be able to have live class sessions online using Zoom or Collaborate at the same time and day they have been scheduled, but that will not produce a good learning experience for the students, nor will it be pleasant for you as...
Assistance to all Faculty – Including Adjuncts – This Week
Virtual Open Sessions The CFC is hosting multiple open sessions for all instructors to learn how to access Blackboard and its general suite of tools. Due to new social distancing guidelines set forth by Human Resources established on March 16, we will be...
CFC Open Sessions for Online Design and Blackboard
Open Help Sessions for All Instructors The CFC is hosting multiple open sessions for all instructors to learn how to access Blackboard and its general suite of tools. Due to new social distancing guidelines set forth by Human Resources established on March 16, we will...
First Steps to Going Online with Blackboard
Introduction: If teaching in face to face classrooms is cancelled for two to three weeks, it behooves faculty members to take a few simple steps now to make the transition to online instruction less stressful. Getting Started: Inform your students that you will be...