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 website.
- Online Faculty Blackboard Training
- Faculty Checklists
BB Gradebook:
- Access BB Gradebook Assistant
- Detailed Instructions for Downloading and Submitting Your BB 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:
Attendance:
- Attendance can be maintained in Blackboard
- Short video on attendance
- Long video on attendance
- Export attendance data
More Blackboard Resources:
- Copy Limited Content from One Course to Another
- How to download a Blackboard Collaborate recording
- How to Edit Notification Settings
BB Collaborate:
- 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:
- View My Course Evaluations
- Lecture Course Section Look-up
- Access BB Gradebook Assistant
- View High School students enrolled in your classes
Course Design:
- 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
- Blended Learning: Critical Learning Decisions
- Flip the Classroom and Catalyze the Learning
- Five Common Mistakes to Avoid During Online Course Design
- Curriculum Management
Student Engagement:
- 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 Instructions
Other Resources:
- The Lecture is Dead! Long Live the Lecture!
- Flipping the Classroom
- Professional Development: Pedagogy, Course Design, Teaching by Distance, and more
- MERLOT II (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) - Part 1 - An Overview
- MERLOT II - Part 2 - Peer Review Process: How to Become a Peer Reviewer
- MERLOT II - Part 3 - Creating Materials: Contributing Materials in MERLOT
- How to Be a Better Online Teacher
- The Goodwill Community Foundation (GCF) offers free online lessons on technology, reading, math,
and careers, as well as other topics.
- Click on this link (the blue underlined words) to go directly to the section on computers:
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/computers. - Select the specific topic you want to review, such as Internet Safety or Tech Savvy Tips and Tricks, by clicking on the icon (picture) at the site.
- Click on this link (the blue underlined words) to go directly to the section on computers:
- 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 http://www.ctcd.edu/students/student-it-services/it-hardware-software-links/.
Open Educational Resources (OER)
- OER Master Course Development
- Identifying and Using Open Educational Resources
- Update on Development 2020
- View the OER page on this website
Competency-Based Education (CBE)
WebAdvisor
- Log in to WebAdvisor
- WebAdvisor Technical Assistance
- E-Mail WebAdvisor Tech: Webadvisor.tech@ctcd.edu
- Call 1-800-792-3348 ext. 1637 or 254-526-1637
- WebAdvisor Gradebook Faculty User Manual
CTC Email
- CTC Exchange Server Access (Outlook Web App/OWA)
- Google Apps Message Center Quick Guide
- Decipher your course name
- 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)
- Online Teaching Strategies
- YouTube Videos: "What's Your Problem? - Cheating in Distance Learning Courses"
