Category: Online Curriculum and Instruction

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April 2021: OCI – Online Course Planning and Development

Publishing Courses for Summer 2021Canvas course sites are typically published for student viewing one week prior to the course start date. Faculty should make sure that textbook information is populated in Canvas and that electronic course reserves are set up on the library reserves website. For assistance, please submit a ticket to the CUSPS Helpdesk. Kicking-off Fall 2021 Course DevelopmentThe course development cycle for online … Continue reading April 2021: OCI – Online Course Planning and Development

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Departments, Online Course Planning and Development, Online Curriculum and Instruction

April 2021: OCI – Professional Development and Training

Training Underway for Summer 2021We encourage all instructors to take advantage of these resources prior to the launch of their course, but especially any instructors who haven’t taught since last Summer or are teaching in a modality that is new for them. These intensive trainings and workshops began on March 29th and will run up to the start of the Summer 2021 term. You can … Continue reading April 2021: OCI – Professional Development and Training

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April 2021: OCI – General Updates

Congratulations, Colleen DavyWe are pleased to announce that Dr. Colleen Davy has accepted the position of Director of Assessment at Kingsborough Community College in New York. Her last day at Columbia was Tuesday, April 13. Please join us in wishing Colleen great success in her new role and thanking her for nearly 3 years of dedicated service at the School of Professional Studies. Continue reading April 2021: OCI – General Updates

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March 2021: OCI – Professional Development and Training

Training for Summer 2021 Canvas and Zoom training for faculty teaching in Summer 2021 is underway. Please visit the CUSPS Training registration page to learn more. We strongly recommend that all faculty attend training in preparation for summer so that they will have the latest and greatest information about various security protocols and functionality in both Canvas and Zoom. New faculty will receive access to their … Continue reading March 2021: OCI – Professional Development and Training

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Academic Technology, Departments, Online Curriculum and Instruction

February 2021: OCI – Academic Technology

Blackboard AllyBlackboard Ally is a Canvas integration that provides resources for digital accessibility assessment and content remediation. Ally’s fully-automated dashboard renders easy-to-understand accessibility insights on course content within Canvas—including documents, images, pages, discussions, assignments, and syllabi. Its remediation tools can be used to correct accessibility errors, and helps faculty and administrators to enhance the equity of the SPS learning experience, regardless of a student’s ability. … Continue reading February 2021: OCI – Academic Technology

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Departments, Online Course Planning and Development, Online Curriculum and Instruction

February 2021: OCI – Online Course Planning and Development

Preparing Online Legacy Courses for Summer 2021Starting in March, members of our instructional design team will begin reaching out to lead faculty of legacy courses — online courses that were designed and taught in a previous semester — to prepare summer 2021 course sites. If changes or updates to the course design are requested, the instructional designer assigned to that course will contact the Program … Continue reading February 2021: OCI – Online Course Planning and Development

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