Faculty Resources

The Center for Learning Design, Innovation, and Online Instruction is hosting a series of webinars in which we will explore the various features of Brightspace. Please access our Spring 2022 Brightspace Training Schedule for more information.

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?

Accessibility or accommodation?

Ally

Text formatting: Headings

Text formatting: Lists

Junk code

Images

Contextualizing links

Closed captions

PDFs

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 Design Institute. Level 3 – Influencer of the Course Design 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!

Christina Lesyk
Testimonial

Barat Wolfe
Testimonial

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

Online Course Data

Textbooks

Federal Textbook Adoption Dates:

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.

SUNY Canton OERs
Open SUNY OER Services
Open SUNY Textbooks

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

Guidebook and Standard Operating Procedures
SUNY Distance Education Format Proposal
Student Online Learning Advisory Committee (SOLAC)
Bb Campus Announcement Request Form
Photo & Video Model Release Form

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Rights

US Copyright Law:

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.

Copyright Your Videos
UUP Policy on Intellectual Property Rights
Copyright and Faculty Ownership of Intellectual Property
What is Public Domain?
What is Fair Use?

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)

Panopto Video Platform

How to Use
Copyright Your Videos
Panopto Information Center
Panopto Brochure for Instructors
Becoming Familiar with Panopto
Sharing Panopto Videos in Courses