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.

Professional Development

Teaching Online

SUNY Canton Resources

Start Teaching

Blackboard Faculty Access FAQ

Blackboard Faculty Orientation *Requires NetID

Blackboard Learn Competencies for New Faculty

Uploading Syllabus to UCanWeb

SUNY Canton's Academic Integrity Policy

Start of Semester

Student Resources – Instructor Announcement Sample

Best Practices when Teaching Online

Communication

Communication in Blackboard

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

Interested in Teaching Online? (Course for professional development)

The New to Online Teaching Certificate Program by SUNY Center for Professional Development

Workshops and Training

Course Development Workshops and Webinars

Course Development Webinars 2020

Course Development Workshops and Webinars 2021

More CLDIOI Course Development Resources and webinar recordings

Accessibility

Accessibility Hour

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 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!

Christina Lesyk
Testimonial

Barat Wolfe
Testimonial

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

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.

Operational

Guidebook and Standard Operating Procedures
SUNY Distance Education Format Proposal
Student Online Learning Advisory Committee (SOLAC)
Bb Campus Announcement Request 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.