Faculty Resources
DEET Newsletters
- Faculty Supervisor Points of Contact
- Faculty Qualifications and Responsibilities
- Distance Education Faculty Handbook
- Master Course Requirements
- Student Attendance Tracking (with revisions)
- Employee training schedules and materials are available at the CTC Faculty and Staff website.
- Online Faculty Blackboard Training
- Faculty Checklists
BB Gradebook:
- Detailed Instructions for Downloading and Submitting Your BB Gradebook to CTAM
- Access BB Gradebook Assistant (rename downloaded gradebook)
- Use Blackboard gradebook settings to convert percentages to points
- Requirements for using Blackboard Gradebook
- Creating Blackboard Grade Columns
- Creating ISD Total column
Submitting Grades from Blackboard to Colleague:
Attendance:
- Attendance can be maintained in Blackboard
- Short video on attendance
- Long video on attendance
- Export attendance data
BB Learn:
- Copy Limited Content from One Course to Another
- How to download a Blackboard Collaborate recording
- How to Edit Notification Settings
- How to Find Your Course Section in Blackboard
BB Collaborate:
- Blackboard Collaborate Tutorial for Faculty
- Add Blackboard Collaborate Tool to Course Menu
- 10 Cool Ways to Engage with Blackboard Collaborate
- Top Ten Ways of Using Blackboard Collaborate
- Help and Technical Support
- General System Requirements
-
Ultra Experience
Course Information:
- Decipher Your Course Name
- View Your Course Evaluations
- Lecture Course Section Look-up (by start date and course alpha)
- Faculty Course Section Look-up (by course ID or section name)
- Access BB Gradebook Assistant
- View High School students enrolled in your classes
Course Design:
- NEW! Are you confused by terms thrown around like learning (course) outcomes, learning objectives, or authentic assessments? Check out this YouTube channel and view the playlist for some nicely prepared videos that are short and to the point: Course Design on a Shoestring Budget
- NEW! Fourteen Simple Strategies to Reduce Cheating on Online Examinations
- SACSCOC Best Practices for Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate Programs
- ADA and usability standards and copyright laws
- Course Development
- Course Revision/Maintenance
- Five Common Mistakes to Avoid During Online Course Design
- CTC Curriculum Management
Student Engagement:
- NEW! Engaging Students Through Asynchronous Video-Based Discussions in Online Courses
- Flipping the Classroom
- 7 Essential Techniques to Increase Engagement and Enhance Online Learning Outcomes
- Maximize Engagement & Extend the Learning Experience in Blackboard Learn with Social Learning
- Using Bloom's Digital Taxonomy to Maximize Student Engagement
- Beginnings, Middles, and Ends: Motivating and Engaging Your Online Students
- Gagne's 9 Events of Instruction
Other Resources:
- MERLOT II (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
- How to Be a Better Online Teacher
- How to Teach Online Classes - Recommended Tools
- Teaching Without Walls: 10 Tips for Online Teaching
- Are You Bored with Discussion Boards? Collaborative Strategies in Blended and Online Courses
- Faculty e-Commons - Learn, collaborate, and share research about effective online teaching and learning
- The Goodwill Community Foundation (GCF) offers free online lessons on technology, reading, math,
and careers, as well as other topics.
- Click this link to go directly to the section on computers: http://www.gcflearnfree.org/computers.
- Select specific topics such as Basic Computer Skills, Typing Tutorial, or Tech Savvy Tips and Tricks
- Websitebuilders.com is a free online guide that covers topics ranging from setting up your computer to doing e-business: https://websitebuilders.com/how-to/
- Get Microsoft Office 365 for free. Go to https://www.ctcd.edu/students/student-it-services/it-hardware-software-links/.
Open Educational Resources (OER)
- OERs at CTC
- OER Master Course Development
- Identifying and Using Open Educational Resources
- Update on OER Development 2020
- Texas Learn OER
- TeachOER: A guide to Open Educational Resources across the web
Competency-Based Education (CBE)
WebAdvisor
- Log in to WebAdvisor
- WebAdvisor Technical Assistance
- E-Mail WebAdvisor Tech: Webadvisor.tech@ctcd.edu
- Call 800-792-3348 ext. 1637 or 254-526-1637
- WebAdvisor Gradebook Faculty User Manual
CTC Email
- CTC Email Access (Outlook Web App/OWA)
- Google Apps Message Center Quick Guide
- Maximize In-Class Time by Moving Student Presentations Online
- 5 Accessible Design Tips for Blended Courses
- Successful Online Strategies
- Five Things Online Students Want from Faculty
- Babson Study: Over 7.1 Million Higher Ed Students Learning Online
- Brief History of Online Learning
- National Distance Learning Week Webinar Archive - Hosted by U.S. Distance Learning Association
- Better, More Affordable Colleges Start Online: How digital learning can become a part of every campus
- Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series (BITS)
- Cheating in Distance Learning Courses
