New Faculty Resources

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

Log in to MyN­IC under Employ­ee Resources > Human Resources > New Employ­ees

• Process for sub­mit­ting grades at end of a course.

• 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)

• 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.