Online Faculty Resources
| Online Faculty Handbook |
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| The Online Faculty Handbook is intended to assist online instructors with online courses and course development,
whether it is for online, hybrid, blended, or web-enhanced courses. After reviewing the handbook, you should have a much better understanding of Peru State's online goals, policies, and procedures. It supplements the faculty resources you may find throughout the website and the College Catalog. |
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For additional information or clarification, please contact your Dean or the Director
of Distance Education and Online Services.
Blackboard 9.1
Preparing Your Course
Discussion Board
When designing or editing your course, you need to decide how to grade Discussion
Board. You can continue to grade threads manually through the Grade Center. Or, you
may choose to enable Discussion Board grading in your course. Note: to use Rubrics
in the Discussion Board, Discussion Board Grading must be enabled.
Grade Center
The Blackboard Grade Center is very complex. We recommend that instructors be well-trained
in this particular area of their course.
Test Creation
Adaptive Release
Adaptive Release controls the release of content to users based on a set of rules
created by the instructor.
Blogs, Journals, & Wikis
You can now add collaborative tools to your course, within Blackboard. All three options
can be found in your Control Panel.
Rubrics
Rubrics can help students organize their efforts to meet the requirements of an assignment.
Instructors can use Rubrics within Blackboard to explain their evaluations to students.
For electronic copies, please contact the Distance Education and Online Services Office.
- Adding Rubrics to Your Course
--Rubrics in Assignments
--Rubrics in a Discussion Board
--Rubrics in Test Questions
--Exporting and Importing Rubrics
SafeAssign
SafeAssign is a Blackboard tool that you may use to detect plagiarism.
Self & Peer Assessment
Self and Peer Assessment allows an instructor to create an exercise to be presented
to their students for completion and evaluation by their peers.
OneSearch: Curriculum Builder
Curriculum Builder is a tool to assist you in better leveraging the resources available
through the Peru State Library. This tool allows instructors to easily create reading
lists within online courses. Available within this resource is over 80,000 full-text
items and 250,000 ebooks.
Google Features: Student Email Tools
Student email accounts are now hosted by Google, which allows instructors to use Google
tools for engagement and discussion.
Microsoft Office 2010: Word & PowerPoint
The tutorial below outlines Microsoft Office's 2010 features in Word and PowerPoint;
some features would greatly enhance your course and online learning.
YouTube
Enhance your course by adding educational videos, introductions, or lectures. You
can do it from home or from your office computer.