Faculty Resources
This page contains resources beneficial to faculty teaching and developing courses. Some items specific to SUNY Canton require authentication.
If you think of other materials you might find helpful, please reach out to cldioi@canton.edu.
Instructional Designers
What can an instructional designer do for you?
Submitting an online or flex course for review soon? Let our instructional designers, who are experts in the OSCQR rubric, help you pass the review on the first attempt.
Creating a brand-new course? Come talk to an instructional designer about the course setup and the best teaching strategy for your course.
Would you like to amp up the quality of your course? Ask an instructional designer to review your course and work with you on improving the course quality.
Do you have a module or an assignment with which your students usually struggle? Come talk to an instructional designer and see if we can help you devise a better strategy to help students meet the course outcomes more efficiently.
Not sure how to fix course materials with accessibility issues? Come talk to an instructional designer for guidance on how to make your course materials accessible to all students.
Do you have a training need in the area of teaching? Schedule a session with an instructional designer to help you address it.
To contact the Center for Learning Design, Innovation, and Online Instruction, please email us at cldioi@canton.edu. The Center currently has three instructional designers. To learn more about us, please click on our profiles below.
Professional Development
Teaching Online
SUNY Canton Resources
Start Teaching
Blackboard Faculty Orientation *Requires NetID
Blackboard Learn Competencies for New Faculty
SUNY Canton's Academic Integrity Policy
Semester Preparation Checklist
Student Resources – Instructor Announcement Sample
Best Practices when Teaching Online
Communication
Collaborate Ultra – Getting Started
Collaborate Ultra for Participants
Download Recordings in Collaborate Ultra
Microsoft Teams Tool in Blackboard
FACT2 Statement on Webcam Requirement for Remote Instruction
Teaching Accessibly
Resources for Advising
Toolkit for Advising Online Students
Blackboard Collaborate Ultra for Advisors
Blackboard Tidbits
Enrolling Users in an Organization
Extended Test Time in Blackboard
SUNY Online Resources
SUNY Online Exam Proctoring System
SUNY Online Teaching (formerly COTE)
Interested in Teaching Online? (Course for professional development)
The New to Online Teaching Certificate Program by SUNY Center for Professional Development
Workshops and Training
Workshops and Webinars
Fall 2021 Instructional Design Webinars
Previous webinar recordings and resources
Accessibility
Fall 2021 Accessibility Webinars
Faculty Mentors
Course Design and Instruction Faculty Mentors - If you would like assistance with the development or instruction of your online course, please don’t hesitate to reach out to one of our wonderful Mentors.
Digital Accessibility Advocates
Campus members who successfully completed the Digital Accessibility Challenge become SUNY Canton Digital Accessibility Advocates. The Challenge task is to create a document containing accessible headings, a list, an image, and a url link, and email it to cldioi_training@canton.edu. The Challenge explores these digital accessibility topics:
Accessibility for digital materials – Who is responsible?
Course Design Institute
The Institute will guide you through a variety of topics related to online course development. You will learn about accessibility, best instructional design practices, and designing courses to meet SUNY Canton OSCQR standards.
The Course Design Institute has three tiers. To learn more about the Institute, please visit our Course Design Institute publication.
- Course Design Institute Registration Form
- Request a Course Design Institute Certificate of Completion
COURSE DESIGNER HALL OF FAME
Many instructors have been working hard to complete the Center for Learning Design, Innovation and Online instruction's Course Development Institute. Level 3 – Influencer of the Course Development Institute asks that participants serve as a mentor for a colleague completing the course development process. The following instructors have served as a mentor and made a positive influence on SUNY Canton’s online course quality. Be sure to read the testimonials from their mentees!
Course Development
Course Development
Online Course Development Shell Form 
Creating Accessible Content
Create Accessible Products (by Section 508.gov)
Accessibility Guides and Tutorials (by Suffolk County Community College)
Tips for Accessible Course Design
Ally FAQ
Accessible Powerpoint – How to
Enable Automatic Captions (ASR) in Panopto
Media Captioning Request Form (for ASR-enabled Panopto videos)
Eliminating “junk code” from your Blackboard items
Sharing Panopto videos in courses
Syllabus
College-approved Required Online Syllabus
CLDIOI OSCQR-friendly Syllabus (optional)
CLDIOI Course Schedule template (optional)
Course Development Tips
Blackboard Learn – Getting Started
Blackboard Learn Assignments
Blackboard Learn Discussion Boards
Time on Task
Online courses focus on total time on task to mirror ‘seat time’ in traditional instruction and the conventional academic credit model (in which one college credit requires 15 hours of classroom time plus two additional hours of homework time per hour of classroom time). For example, time on task for viewing three, 15-minute lectures (text or video), with web links would equal 1 hr. Posting to discussions (original post, responses to three classmates’ posts, responses to responses) would equal 2 hours. Small group project meetings (web conference or asynchronous discussion) would equal 1 hour. The College’s Center for Learning Design, Innovation, and Online Instruction provides faculty with guidance on converting online learning activities to time on task to calculate equivalent hours to meet the requirements of the academic credit model. Students complete no less than three hours of equivalent work per credit per week in online courses.
Assessment
Textbooks
The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA) requires all institutions receiving federal financial aid to "publish," in time for registration, a list of all required and recommended books and other course materials for all classes offered at the institution.
Approved Online Courses
- Approved Online Course List (All schools are included in list)
Online Learning Review Committee (OLRC)
- Course Reviewer Notes
Pre-Assessment OSCQR Rubric
- (After opening, go to File > Save As > Download a Copy. This will allow you to save and edit the document)
- Printable Pre-Assessment OSCQR Rubric
- (After opening, Go to file > and choose "Print". This will allow for printing of this version of the rubric.)
FLEX Course Review
FLEX courses must be fully developed for online delivery in accordance with the College approved OSCQR Rubric, with the exception of lecture recordings. Recorded lectures should be posted following class sessions and must be accessible (i.e., have to be captioned) once posted to the course. Course Developers may include a "Lecture Recording" content folder in each module when designing FLEX courses. In addition, it is recommended written lecture notes are present in the course at the time of review.
Operational
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Rights
Copyright protection is automatic and begins when your work is permanently recorded. This means that you can't copyright your ideas, only the recorded product of your ideas. You are not required to include a copyright statement or register your copyright but there are advantages to doing so (needed if taking legal action, less appealing to plagiarism sites that upload faculty materials). The Library can provide assistance and resources on copyright rules and responsibilities.
Emerging Technologies
Software
- Blackboard Information Center (LMS)
- SafeAssign (Anti-Plagiarism Software)
- Ally (Accessibility Tool in Blackboard)
- Qwickly (Communication tool in Blackboard)
- Grammarly (Online proofreading and editing tool)
- ReadSpeaker (Accessibility and translation tool in Blackboard)
Center for Learning Design, Innovation, and Online Instruction Staff
Blackboard Course Management System
SUNY Canton uses Blackboard's cutting-edge course management system to deliver hundreds of courses each semester.
