• 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
• NEW! - 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:

• Video demonstration of Submit Grades module
• Submit Grades module instructions

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

  
  
  • About Collaborate
  • Browser Support
  • Start here with the Basics
  • The Ultra Experience
  • Moderator
  • Changes in the Instructional Materials Checklist

Biometric Signature ID:

• What is BioSig-ID?
• How to use BioSig-ID in Blackboard courses
• How to Exempt Students from BioSig
• Student identity proofing using BioSig-ID gesture biometrics
• Secrets to Success (January 2018 in-service)

SafeAssign:

• SafeAssign Instructions

Course Information:

• View My Course Evaluations
• Lecture Course Section Look-up
• Access BB Gradebook Assistant

Course Design:

• 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:

• Free and Cheap Multimedia Tools for Educators
• Are You Bored with Discussion Boards? Collaborative Strategies in Blended and Online Courses
• Learn, collaborate, and share research about effective online teaching and learning

• 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

ADA Compliance:

• Disability Support Services at Central Texas College
• Accessible Distance Learning
• Accessibility Matters
• Accessibility Matters, Part Two
• WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) Overview
• WCAG 2.1 W3C Proposed Recommendation 24 April 2018
• Understanding WCAG 2.1: A History of WCAG

Copyright Compliance:

• Copyright on Campus
• The Educator’s Guide to Copyright and Fair Use
• The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons
• Copyright Educational Use
• Copyright and Primary Sources
• Copyright for Educators

• 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.
• 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/.

• Browsers
  • How to unblock content in Firefox
  • Browsers Recommended for Blackboard

Open Educational Resources (OER)

• OER Master Course Development
• Identifying and Using Open Educational Resources
• Update on Development October 2019
• View the OER page on this website

Competency-Based Education (CBE)

• CTC CBE Proposal
• CBE Playbook
• CBE Best Practices
• CTC CBE Guidelines
• Competency Based Learning and Assessment
• Seven Things You Should Know
• CBE Experiment Reference Guide
• CBE Course Development

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
• History of Distance Education
• 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?"