Faculty / Instructional Staff

This 4-hour professional continuing education course establishes a clear, general quality baseline for online and hybrid instruction. Faculty will learn the minimum standards that make online/hybrid courses consistent, navigable, and defensible: instructor presence, pacing and structure, interaction, assessment clarity, and documentation.

 

This course is not a platform-specific training and does not require institution-specific policies to be embedded. Instead, faculty will learn how to (1) align their course practices to institutional policy, (2) publish expectations clearly in the syllabus/LMS, and (3) use documentation methods that are repeatable and auditable.

 

All practical tools (readiness checklist, presence plan, participation documentation options, and assessment quality checks) are provided inside the course as reference examples and self-check lists—no typed responses and no separate downloads are required.

This 4-hour professional continuing education course trains faculty and instructional staff to use common learning management system (LMS) tools to improve learning outcomes and streamline defensible records of instruction and evaluation.

 

This is not a platform-specific training. The course focuses on universally available LMS functions—modules, announcements, assignments, quizzes, rubrics, gradebook, feedback tools, and reporting—so faculty can apply the standards in Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle, and similar systems.

 

The course emphasizes traceable evidence: publishing expectations where students will see them, using LMS-integrated assessment tools that time-stamp submissions and feedback, and using institution-approved reporting to support participation, grading decisions, and complaint or audit response.

 

Practical implementation guidance is provided throughout the course in the form of decision points, quality controls, and instructional scenarios. Participants should consult appropriate institutional leadership (and counsel, when applicable) before adopting or publishing any institutional policy language, and should ensure all LMS practices align to institution-approved procedures.

This 4-hour professional continuing education course trains faculty and instructional staff to use generative AI productively while protecting academic integrity, student privacy, and institutional defensibility.

 

This is not an edtech adoption or “how to teach with AI” methods course. It is a policy-and-execution course focused on practical controls: acceptable use boundaries, disclosure expectations, assignment design that still measures learning, and integrity procedures that do not rely on AI-detection tools as proof.

 

Practical implementation guidance is provided throughout the course in the form of decision points, risk controls, and instructional scenarios. Participants must align all practices to their institution’s published policies and approved tools, and should consult appropriate institutional leadership or counsel before adopting or publishing any policy language.