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The Newsletter for JCCC Online Faculty |
April 2009 |
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In This Issue · ANGEL talks to Banner · To Merge or not to Merge · What’s a Source Course? · Summer ANGEL Training · Reading and Research Resources
Coming Soon: Faculty Resources Repository Does your course meet the JCCC Quality Guidelines? Or, do you need some ideas for icebreakers, faculty introductions, online course policies—or any other quality requirement? Do you have materials you might share with your colleagues? This summer, we hope to have a Faculty Resources Repository. There you’ll be able to find examples of how some are meeting the JCCC Quality Guidelines. There’s a drop box, also, for you to upload any materials we can add to the repository. Division Task Force Does your division have a task force charged with writing Best Practices for teaching an online class particular to your division? If not, talk to your DLCC representative to get one started. Examples of division best practices/guidelines are in SharePoint at http://tiny.cc/oOjU2 Or, go to the DLCC site in SharePoint, click on Shared Documents and look in the folder titled Division Online Teaching Guidelines or Best Practices .
Have you . . . · requested your course shells for summer and fall, yet? For summer courses, go to http://web.jccc.edu/dl/Summer_Request.htm For fall courses, go to http://web.jccc.edu/dl/Fall_Request.htm
· Read the DLCC minutes?
· Registered for SIDLIT, July 30-31, on our campus? http://www.sidlit.org/
Did you . . . update your online course information in the Online Course Guide? If not, e-mail Beth Ramirez, and she will send you the template to complete and send back.
Are you. . . on the Distance Learning Faculty list serve? If not, e-mail me to be included.
Useful Web Sites
· Contribute and use materials from the Electronic Learning And Teaching Exchange that you create and edit at http:// www.ELATEwiki.org
· Need a free wiki site? Try: http://www.wetpaint.com/
· Submit a conference presentation proposal for SIDLIT at http://www.sidlit.org/
· Need a starting place for developing a discussion grading rubric? Try http://tiny.cc/lFllK Contribute!
Have you read an article recently that should be highlighted in the Reading and Research Sources? Let’s include it in the next DL Delivery. Articles must focus on some aspect of online teaching and learning. E-mail the link to the article or the database and article information and your summary/annotation to me, and I’ll include it in the next newsletter. Contact Me Monica E. Hogan, Ph.D. |
ANGEL and Blackboard are trading roles. Beginning this summer semester, ANGEL will be fully integrated with Banner and relevant systems, while data in Blackboard will be handled manually.
What does this mean to you?
1. Every course will have an ANGEL shell created. Anyone who wishes to use Blackboard, must request a course shell, and may do so through Spring 2010. · To request your course shells for summer, go to http://web.jccc.edu/dl/Summer_Request.htm You can find a current list of online classes, divided by lms, at http://web.jccc.edu/dl/su09.htm · To request your course shells for fall, go to http://web.jccc.edu/dl/Fall_Request.htm 2. All rosters in ANGEL will be updated in real-time. That is, when a student adds or drops a class, the action should be reflected in ANGEL within minutes, if not seconds. Your rosters should be accurate. 3. All rosters in Blackboard will be updated twice a day. Once in the morning, and once in the late afternoon. This means students who add an online class offered in Blackboard may have to wait a few hours for the manual roster update. However, in no circumstances should they have to wait more than 24 hours to gain access to the class. Your rosters may not be up-to-date in real-time. What does this mean for your students? 1. Students will need to continue to find their courses on the Portal page. For summer, that page is at http://web.jccc.edu/dl/su09.htm Beginning Summer 2010, this page will go away, and all only ANGEL lms will be used at JCCC. 2. Students who add a class that uses ANGEL after the start date no longer have to wait for access, and if they drop, they immediately lose access to the classes. Also, their My JCCC course links will direct them to their online classes. 3. Students who enroll in a section using Blackboard after the start date may have to wait for access, and they may still have access to the course even if they drop. Also, their My JCCC course links will NOT direct them to their courses. What if I have an ANGEL course shell that I don’t want to use? If you’ve requested courses in Blackboard, your course shells in ANGEL will be hidden from students. However, you can hide any ANGEL course shell from students by following these steps: 1. Log into ANGEL 2. Click on the course you’d like to hide 3. Click on the Manage Tab 4. Click on General Course Settings in the middle nugget on the manage tab 5. Click on the Access tab inside the Course settings 6. Change Member Access from all Members to Editors Only 7. Click Save
Your course will no longer show for students. Should you wish to start using the shell, you’ll have to change the access back to All Users.
What is it?
Merging two sections of the same course in ANGEL is the same a cross-listing those sections in Blackboard. More specifically, the DLCC defines a merged course as one that has two or more sections of the same course combined into a single course shell.
When a course is merged in ANGEL, teams are automatically created, so if needed or preferred, you can segregate the students according to rosters. Also, you can print separate grade books based on the rosters.
Cross-listing occurs when a course has the same roster but multiple CRNS or is a part of a learning communities. One key quality of cross-listed courses is the presence of just one roster.
Once sections are merged, they stay merged for the duration of the course.
Who can do it?
Anyone can merge sections of the same course, even if you’re using the shells for your face-to-face courses. This course management issue has been approved by the Instructional Deans Council.
Faculty who want to have their courses merged in ANGEL can complete a form in SharePoint http://tinyurl.com/angel-merge that requests either Jonathan Bacon or Ed Lovitt to complete a Merge in ANGEL.
Faculty who want their courses merged/cross-listed in Blackboard must contact their department/division administrative assistant since this action is executed in Banner.
What is the DLCC statement regarding Merged Courses? Pending further revision and a vote is the statement:
A merged course consists of two or more sections of the same course combined into a single course shell.
We recommend that individual faculty have the choice to merge sections of the same course for issues of management.
Pedagogical implications for both student and teacher outcomes using groups and teams can be positively impacted by this practice.
With the following guidelines in place, we hold that this is an acceptable practice for our students and faculty.
Guidelines: · courses, once merged, cannot be unmerged for the duration of that semester · courses must be merged prior to the first day of classes · cross-listing of dissimilar courses may comprise a learning community and is permitted by definition. · merging of the classes will be done by either Jonathan’s ETC group or Ed Lovitt’s office, and requests for merging will be collected in a Sharepoint site for ease of handling.
What’s a Source Course & How do I Get one? Did you know you could lose all of your work in your course shells? Sounds devastating, doesn’t it? Yet, it’s easily preventable.
Here’s what to do.
1. Enroll in ANGEL training. You can enroll in an online course or in a face-to-face course, which ever fits your learning style and schedule better. Training is recommended, and some divisions require it. Ask your faculty supervisor what the policy is in your division. 2. Request a source course by e-mailing your ETC designer or Jonathan Bacon. Source courses are ANGEL’s answer to development shells in Blackboard. Once you have a source course, it never goes away. Anything you put in there stays until you delete it. So, whenever you develop a class, if you keep it and update it in your source course, you will always have your materials ready to copy into your production shells. (Production shells are those shells that Banner will automatically generate each semester; they have your students in them.) We will be offering both Online and Face-to-Face ANGEL training this summer. This training is available for all faculty who teach online or my want to supplement their on-campus courses. The Council of Assistant Deans and Directors recommends the completion of iTeach Online prior to teaching online at JCCC.
The list of training courses is at http://tinyurl.com/summer-angel
Instructions on how to register for these courses can be found at http://www.jccc.net/home/download/3315/instructions.pdf
Reading and Research Resources Caught (unfortunately) on tape. (2009). The chronicle of higher education, 55(28), A17. Retrieved April 21, 2009, from Research Library database.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on lectures being offered in iTunes and other publicly accessed files. In particular, the article acknowledges the private nature of a classroom lecture which involves the instructor, “the students, and four walls” versus the public nature of YouTube and other media sharing sites where recorded lectures may be posted. The writer concludes that “era of classroom privacy is nearly over” and “the best approach is to go into every class session assuming that their words could be broadcast to the world.”
Hunt, Jazelle. (2009). Attitude is everything. Diverse issues in higher education, 26(3),19-20. Retrieved April 21, 2009, from Research Library database.
Jazelle Hunt reports on studies conducted by the Sloan Consortium which assert that the success of an online program hinges on faculty attitudes. In particular, successful online programs need “leadership from senior administration members, accessibility to resources and the . . . an online coordinator.” Hunt also reports that faculty believe it takes more time to teach an online class well. |
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