Faculty Resources
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- Faculty Supervisor Points of Contact
- Faculty Qualifications and Responsibilities
- Distance Education Faculty Handbook
- Master Course Requirements
- Student Attendance Tracking (with revisions)
- Guidelines for Census-Certification Rolls
- Employee training schedules and materials are available by contacting Employee Training.
- Online Faculty Blackboard Training
- Faculty Checklists
- Regular Substantive Interaction
BB Gradebook:
- Requirements for using Blackboard Gradebook
- Creating Blackboard Grade Columns
- Setting Overall Grade for ISD Grade Extract (Ultra)
- Setting Up Point-Based Gradebook
Submitting Grades from Blackboard to Colleague:
Attendance:
BB Learn:
- How to Add Syllabus in a Blackboard Course
- Blackboard Learn for Instructors Playlist
- Copy Limited Content from One Course to Another
- How to Edit Notification Settings
- How to Find Your Course Section in Blackboard
- How to Export a Blackboard course
- How to Import a Blackboard course
- Blackboard Test Generator
- How to Provide Accommodations to students for Students
- Blackboard Learn with the Ultra Experience
Class Collaborate (formerly Blackboard Collaborate):
- Collaborate Tutorial for Faculty
- Add Class Collaborate Tool to Course Menu
- 10 Cool Ways to Engage with Collaborate
- System Requirements
- Browser Support
- Record and Download Class Collaborate Session
- About Collaborate Ultra Experience
- Collaborate Participants - Get Started
- Collaborate Moderators - Get Started
Biometric Signature ID™:
BioSight-ID™:
- Adding BioSig-ID™ Instructions to your course
- BioSig-ID™/BioSight-ID™/BioSightPlus-ID™ Introduction and requirements
- How to enable BioSig-ID™/BioSight-ID™/BioSightPlus-ID™/SEB with BiosightPlus-ID™ on a test
- BioSight-ID™ Dashboard
- BioSight-ID™ Infractions summary
- BioSight-ID™ Filter & Policy Recommendations
SafeAssign:
Academic Misconduct:
Course Information:
- Decipher Your Course Name
- View Your Course Evaluations
- View summary results of submitted course evaluations
- Look up Lecture Course Sections by Start Date and/or Course Alpha
- Look up Course Sections by Course ID, Section Name, or Synonym
- View High School students enrolled in your classes
- Blackboard Test Generator
Course Design:
- Using YouTube for Teaching
- Course Design on a Shoestring Budget
- Fourteen Simple Strategies to Reduce Cheating on Online Examinations
- SACSCOC Best Practices for Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate Programs
- Faculty eCommons: an Online Instructor's Idea Hub
- CTC Curriculum Management (accessible from on-campus or via VPN only)
Student Engagement:
- 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:
- Free podcasts for classroom management, online teaching and more
- 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
Starlink Training - Professional Development for Higher Education:
- Starlink is a membership-based higher education professional development organization with an association of nearly 54,000 educational professionals within the United States, Canada and Europe.
- Starlink is available FREE to all CTC employees.
- Go to https://starlinktraining.org/ and click the Members Area button.
- Your user name is your CTC email address.
- Click the Forgot your password link to reset your password.
ADA Compliance:
- CTC Disability Support Services: Faculty Information
- The Center on Accessible Distance Learning
- Accessibility Matters, Part One
- Accessibility Matters, Part Two
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview
- Understanding WCAG 2.1: A History of WCAG
- Fact Sheet: New Rule on ADA
Copyright Compliance:
- 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: https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/topics/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/.
- CTC Library Resources for Faculty
Eagle Self-Service
- Log in to Eagle Self-Service
- Eagle Self-Service Technical Assistance
- E-Mail Eagle Self-Service Tech: SelfService.Support@ctcd.edu
- Call 800-792-3348 ext. 1637 or 254-526-1637
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
- 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
- AI Information and Guidance
- AI Levels of Usage
- Microsoft Copilot
- CTC faculty and staff have access to Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered interface that can be accessed through Bing search, the Microsoft Edge browser, Windows 11, a downloadable app, and directly at the Copilot website.
- With Copilot, you can schedule meetings, set reminders, create to-do lists, transcribe meetings, and summarize long articles. It can also assist you with research, writing, editing, and generating ideas.
- The CTC IT Division recommends that CTC users only use Copilot or other AI tools available through approved enterprise applications that CTC licenses (ex, Blackboard).
