New Faculty Resources – Teach Anywhere

Welcome! If you have found your way here you may be a new instructor just hired at North Island College or you have been here at while and want to see what we have for new faculty members.

Getting Started with Your Course
Prepare to Teach

Includes: Welcome, About NIC, Policies, Getting Help, Brightspace, Kaltura, and Textbooks and Resource Ordering

Getting Started with Your Course
Prepare Your Course Outline

Includes: ACDs, Learning Outcomes, Learning Activities, Formative Assessment, Evaluation, and Policies

Getting Started with Your Course
Prepare Students to Learn

Includes: Student Expectations, Student Supports (DALS), Metacognition, Orienting to the Course Outline, and First Day Activities

Teaching Your Course Effectively

Includes: Student Support Areas, Getting Informal Feedback, Supporting Students Experiencing Challenges, Giving Students Feedback, Reflecting on the Course, and Meeting Drop Deadlines

Wrapping Up Your Course

Includes: Entering Grades, Extensions, Collecting/Storing/Archiving Student Work, Cleaning Up/Exporting Brightspace Course, and Reflecting on Course

Checklists and Principles

New Faculty Orientation Checklist
Course Readiness Items (Brightspace Course)
Term Start Checklist (Brightspace Course)
Time Saving Tips and Tools (Brightspace)
Principles of Learning (Research-Based, Undergraduate, First People’s)

Faculty Orientation to Teaching – Brightspace Course

This self-paced course is designed for new or relatively new instructors to North Island College to get up to speed on the essential components and required activities for teaching and learning. (coming in early January)

NIC Teaching and Learning Handbook

NIC essentials for success in teaching and learning for new and relatively new faculty (via online Pressbooks format)

NIC New Employee Orientation Guidebook

Submitting Final Grades: For All Instructors

Process for submitting grades at end of a course.

New Instructors: Tips for Success

Top 10 Teaching Tips for New Instructors (Carleton University)
Advice for New Faculty (Northern Illinois University)
Tips for Faculty Teaching the First Time (Washington University)
Teaching Tips: New College Instructors (Ever Educating YouTube Series)

New Hire Tech Access: To Understand The Process

Flowchart of the process from hire to access activate credentials for access to Brightspace, Kaltura Video and Kaltura Virtual Classroom. Also includes a cheat sheet of all logins and URLs for systems.