New Course Development/Course Revision

Central Texas College strives to offer courses in a variety of delivery modes to meet student needs.  We welcome the adaptation of face-to-face courses for alternate delivery, and we encourage the revision of distance education courses to reflect textbook changes, inclusion of opportunities for student engagement, and/or advances in technology.  

• Timelines, see Course Development Timelines
• Sufficient lead time must be allowed for
  • development,
  • quality assurance and ADA check,
  • departmental approval prior to course being copied for faculty. 
• Master courses are NOT copied until they have gone through QA and are approved by the department chair or his/her designee.
• Courses MUST be copied and available for individual faculty to personalize one month prior to course start date.  Faculty must have course updates completed before students have access to the courses on the Thursday before Monday class starts.


• Ground Rules
• Courses that have been developed are not eligible for redevelopment.  Any changes are considered revisions/updates.
• Course development/revision will not start if the textbook and other materials have not been published or are otherwise not available.
• All course materials must comply with ADA regulations and copyright laws.  Distance Education and Educational Technology (DEET) staff will assist in seeking copyright permissions and ensuring master courses are in ADA compliance.


• Department Chair Responsibilities
  • Submit request for course development or revision, including assignment of SME.
  • See flowchart
  • Adaptation of face-to-face courses for alternate delivery must be approved by the CTC Curriculum Review Committee before development can commence.  The New Course Request Form is available at the CTC website for submission by Department Chairs.
  • Course revisions, to include creation of media, must be approved/requested by the Department Chair via the Course Update Request Form at the CTC website.
  • Assist, as needed, during course development/revision process.
  • Review and approve completed master course before it is deployed.
    
    
• SME Qualifications, Responsibilities, and Limitations
• SMEs are assigned by Department Chairs based on their knowledge of course content.  They are experienced and qualified faculty members for the course(s) they are assigned.  We recommend that they have experience teaching online.
• SMEs should possess the basic computer skills required for online faculty. Please see the self assessment tools and technical requirements.
• SMEs and their departments must ensure that instructional materials required for the courses are noted at the CTC Instructional Materials site.  If a course cartridge or other limited access publisher product is used, information must be included for the student to acquire the necessary access codes.
• SMEs are expected to enter course content for online and blended courses into Blackboard, the CTC Learning Management System (LMS), with DEET’s support for formatting and technical issues.
• Media must be of high quality to be distributed for use by other faculty.
• Proposal must be submitted and discussed with Instructional Designer prior to creation of media.
• DEET staff will provide guidance and resources, within reason, for development of media.
• SME must provide electronic files of
• Narrative/script/transcript
• Audio or video recordings
• SMEs are paid for course development and revision per an approved scale that is
• based on adjunct faculty compensation for teaching one 3- or 4-hour course and is updated each fiscal year to reflect the current rates.
• dependent on deliverables produced, not on time spent.
• approved by the CTC Board of Trustees.
• A separate scale is used to determine compensation for creation of original media for master courses.
• Payment is limited to original development; i.e., SME who is paid for developing exams for an online course is not paid again if these same exams are used in a blended course.
• Pay scales may be requested from course.support@ctcd.edu and are provided to SMEs when they are assigned for course development/revision.
• SMEs are required to sign a copyright release form that transfers ownership of courses to Central Texas College.
• Assignment as SME for course development or revision does not guarantee immediate assignment to teach the course.