Welcome Faculty

A challenge for developing and conducting courses virtually is how to best engage and interact with your students. Join members of Empire Online to look at how Regular and Substantiative Interaction (RSI) can be incorporated into your online courses and virtual study groups to provide student feedback that adds value and creates new pathways to connect a community of learners.

• This session is on Thursday, April 14 at 2pm.
• To receive a link to add to your Outlook calendar, register for the session.

All sessions are on MS Teams. Guest access is available if you cannot log in with your SUNY Empire account.  

Need technical support to attend? Contact the IT Service Desk: esc.edu/service-desk.  

To schedule additional one-on-one training, you can book an appointment with an EdTech at esc.edu/edtechhhelp.  

Whether you’re new to MS Teams or a Microsoft expert, this webinar is sure to give you fresh insight into the best ways to provide your students with the regular and substantive feedback they need to succeed. 

• This session is on Wednesday, April 27th at 2pm. 
• To receive a link to add to your Outlook calendar, register for the session here.   

To join a session directly, go to esc.edu/etfacultydev on the day of.  

• All sessions are on MS Teams. Guest access is available if you cannot log in with your SUNY Empire account.  
• Need technical support to attend? Contact the IT Service Desk: esc.edu/service-desk.   
• Recordings of our sessions will be made available on our LEARNscape page.    
• To schedule additional one-on-one training, you can book an appointment with an EdTech at esc.edu/edtechhhelp.  

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Accessibility Rubric

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Active Learning is a student-centered approach that emphasizes the students’ engagement and activity levels in the pursuit of knowledge.

Empire State College is installing active learning classrooms across the state.  These are physical classrooms designed to promote active and collaborative learning. Compared to the traditional classroom, active learning classrooms include rounded tables known as Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) tables that serve as group workstations instead of individual student desks.

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Using the Active Learning Classroom Technology

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Contact your EdTechs to access this resource.

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Academic Research Network (ARN) is a server for virtual machines allowing faculty to give their students access to software remotely.

Problems?

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Microsoft Bookings is a scheduling platform that integrates with your Outlook Calendar and makes it easy for users to book 1-1 appointments with you based on your set availability.

Training Info:

The Department of Educational and Emerging Technologies has developed a training course to guide faculty and staff through the steps to setup a Bookings service and review what is needed to ensure that appointment options are consistently accurate.

Please follow along the training while you set up your Bookings page. The training was developed specifically to ensure your success from the start and to observe the College branding guides. 

Complete a Request Form to have the Bookings service enabled for you and to receive access to the self-paced training on Knowbe4

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ESC’s website hosting platform is open to all faculty and teaching staff to enhance their online presence and exposure. Faculty and teaching staff can have their own easy to remember URL (Example: FLast.facultysites.esc.edu).

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FacultySites Homepage - Information for creating, editing, managing, and learning more about the faculty website service

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Digital Presence & Digital Fluency Course - Please reach out to your Educational Technologist for enrollment information.

Problems?

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Immersive Cloud Learning (ICL) is a telepresence system to synchronously broadcast a course from one location (source room) to students in other locations (destination rooms). For example, a faculty mentor in Manhattan can teach a course in art history – in real time – to students in Staten Island and Rochester simultaneously.Training Info:

We currently have ICL rooms at our Staten Island, Saratoga, Buffalo, Rochester, and Selden locations with more on the way. If you are interested in teaching using this methodology, request a consultation and an EdTech will happily assist you.

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Introduction to ICL video

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LEARNscape is the college's own version of YouTube. It allows students and faculty to host video content.

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Table of Contents for Knowledge base articles

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Publishing your media content - learn how you can allow people (other than you) to view our LEARNscape content.

Ordering captions for your content - request captions to enhance the accessibility and experience of your content for viewers.

Editing captions - make edits to captions to add clarity and accuracy to your content.

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Interested in learning how to use Moodle for courses, or expanding your knowledge of this LMS?

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Table of Contents for Knowledge base articles

LEARNscape videos

Moodle @ ESC Training Course for Faculty

To request additional training on the use of Moodle, please submit a request using the link below. Moodle training and support is provided for new faculty (full and part-time), anyone who just wants a refresher, those who are new to teaching online classes, and experienced faculty that want to explore and utilize advanced features.

Complete a Request Form to schedule Instructor Moodle Training

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Instructors that need to request a course pour or a new Moodle shell for a future term should submit a Shell Request Form

Problems?

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MS Teams is a communication and collaboration tool offered by the college to support faculty, staff, and students who are working remotely. This is a good singular space to conduct video calls, chat, share files, and collaborate on projects.

Training Info:

You can find information about any upcoming webinars on MS Teams, as well as recordings to previous webinars on MS teams on the Faculty Resources and Programming page.

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Knowledgebase Articles - Table of Contents for MS Teams

Using MS Teams with your Students? Here is a link to several quickstart guides for students (PDF handouts). You can send these to your students or upload them to your course, however you need to use them.

Problems?

Submit an "Incident ticket".

The SUNY CPD OTTER Institute is an opportunity for online practitioners to learn more about the innovations, trends, and challenges with online education; see examples of best practices and learn about tools to create and deliver effective and engaging online course content; strengthen your understanding of accessibility and equity issues and see how to build courses with both in mind as you develop and deliver a truly inclusive course. 

Webinar Series Dates

Course Development & Design Webinar Series June 7-11, 2021 - View the Recordings 

Course Delivery Webinar Series August 9-14, 2021 

OTTER sessions are geared towards teaching faculty and faculty/student supports personnel, including instructional designers, librarians, etc.

Webinar Cost:

OTTER is free to all SUNY campus members. The cost for non-SUNY campus members is $25 for the Course Delivery Webinar Series (August 9-13, 2021). 

Register Here

For questions, please contact Jamie Heron, jamie.heron@suny.edu or Viktorya Mirzoyan, viktorya.mirzoyan@suny.edu.     

Problems?

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SUNY Tools of Engagement Project (TOEP) is an on-demand discovery learning initiative to help faculty explore new technologies or web tools, and to learn how to use them in their courses.

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TOEP Webinar Series

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Problems?

Submit an "Incident ticket".

Ouriginal (formerly known as URKUND) is a plagiarism detection resource available to facilitate academic honesty and integrity.

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Knowledgebase Articles

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For all other consultation or training requests not covered by the above categories, book an Educational Technology consultation on our Bookings page.