Faculty Orientation Checklist

The fol­low­ing check­list was cre­at­ed to help new or fair­ly new fac­ul­ty find their way around North Island Col­lege and know what to ask or look out for.

General Employment
ITEM
CONTACT/SOURCE
INFORMATION OR OTHER DETAILS
CHECK
Office space, keys, key fob, after-hours build­ing access, pho­to ID Chair/Coordinator or Dean/Director Office and Facil­i­ties NIC Ser­vice Desk  — https://servicedesk.nic.bc.ca/
Email, myN­IC (employ­ee por­tal) access Dean/Director Office Infor­ma­tion in the HR Wel­come Email
Pho­to­copiers (where to locate, bro­ken, paper etc.) IT NIC Ser­vice Desk  — https://servicedesk.nic.bc.ca/
Com­put­ing equip­ment, fur­ni­ture, sta­tion­ary and sup­plies Chair or Co-ordi­na­tor
Con­tract, ben­e­fits, pay etc. Human Resources Infor­ma­tion in the HR Wel­come Email. Also help­ful infor­ma­tion in myN­IC Employ­ee por­tal (Employ­ee Resources > Human Resources > New Employ­ees)
Intro­duc­tion to NIC Cen­tre for Teach­ing and Learn­ing Inno­va­tion (CTLI) New Fac­ul­ty Resources (Teach Any­where: NIC’s Teach­ing and Learn­ing  Sup­ports web­site)
NIC New Employ­ee Ori­en­ta­tion Guide­book Human Resources Infor­ma­tion in the HR Wel­come Email. Also help­ful infor­ma­tion in myN­IC Employ­ee por­tal (Employ­ee Resources > Human Resources > New Employ­ees)
NIC Teach­ing and Learn­ing Hand­book Cen­tre for Teach­ing and Learn­ing Inno­va­tion (CTLI) New Fac­ul­ty Resources (Teach Any­where: NIC’s Teach­ing and Learn­ing  Sup­ports web­site) and direct link.
Pro­fes­sion­al Devel­op­ment — Learn­ing Oppor­tu­ni­ties Cen­tre for Teach­ing and Learn­ing Inno­va­tion (CTLI) Teach Any­where web­site > Learn­ing Oppor­tu­ni­ties
Sub­mit­ting Vacation/PD Requests (Reg­u­lar Fac­ul­ty) Dean’s Office/myNIC MyN­IC Employ­ee Por­tal — Employ­ee Self-Ser­vice (View your pay state­ments, tax forms and leave requests)
Col­lec­tive Agree­ment and Con­tract Ques­tions North Island Col­lege Fac­ul­ty Asso­ci­a­tion (NICFA) — Union Doc­u­ments on NICFA web­site
Name tag, busi­ness cards etc. Chair or Co-ordi­na­tor
Per­son­al Pro­tec­tive Equip­ment (PPE) Chair or Co-ordi­na­tor
Cam­pus Loca­tion and Maps NIC Web­site > Our Loca­tions
Employ­ee Train­ing Human Resources and CTLI Teach Any­where web­site > Employ­ee Train­ing
Students, Course and Teaching Area
ITEM
CONTACT/SOURCE
INFORMATION OR OTHER DETAILS
CHECK
Intro­duc­tion to the area (fac­ul­ty, depart­ment etc.) Dean’s/Director’s Ori­en­ta­tion Infor­ma­tion in the dean or direc­tor wel­come email.
Depart­ment Meet­ings Chair or Co-ordi­na­tor Attend as sched­uled
Aca­d­e­m­ic Sup­ports Stu­dent Ser­vices NIC web­site — Sup­port Ser­vices
Stu­dent Learn­ing Sup­ports Library and Learn­ing Com­mons NIC web­site — Library and Learn­ing Com­mons
Elders in Res­i­dence Elders in Res­i­dence Page NIC web­site — Elders in Res­i­dence
Depart­ment of Acces­si­ble Learn­ing Ser­vices (DALS) DALS Fac­ul­ty NIC web­site — Acces­si­ble Learn­ing Ser­vices
Direct­ing stu­dents to course texts or mate­ri­als Book­store NIC web­site — Book­stores
Order­ing Course Mate­ri­als Chair or Co-ordi­na­tor Email from “Pur­chas­ing” sent 2–3 months in advance
General Teaching and Learning
ITEM
CONTACT/SOURCE
INFORMATION OR OTHER DETAILS
CHECK
Teach­ing and Learn­ing Self-Serve Resources Cen­tre for Teach­ing and Learn­ing Inno­va­tion (CTLI) Teach Any­where web­site —  NIC’s Teach­ing and Learn­ing  Sup­ports web­site
Teach­ing and Learn­ing Ques­tions — Indi­vid­ual Sup­port Cen­tre for Teach­ing and Learn­ing Inno­va­tion (CTLI) NIC Ser­vice Desk > Instruc­tor Con­sul­ta­tions

Teach Any­where web­site > NIC’s Teach­ing and Learn­ing Sup­ports web­site  > Staff
Tech­nol­o­gy Plat­form (Quick Links) CTLI and IT Teach Any­where web­site > Tech Plat­form Links
Class­room Tech­nol­o­gy IT NIC Ser­vice Desk > Class­room Resources
Bright­space by D2L (dig­i­tal learn­ing plat­form for cours­es, con­tent, assign­ments, dis­cus­sions, quizzes) Cen­tre for Teach­ing and Learn­ing Inno­va­tion (CTLI) Teach Any­where  web­site > Bright­space
Kaltura Video by Kaltura (video recorder, stream­ing video stor­age, video shar­ing) Cen­tre for Teach­ing and Learn­ing Inno­va­tion (CTLI) Teach Any­where web­site > Kaltura Video
Kaltura Vir­tu­al Class­room (teach­ing and learn­ing web con­fer­enc­ing plat­form) Cen­tre for Teach­ing and Learn­ing Inno­va­tion (CTLI) Teach Any­where  web­site > Kaltura Vir­tu­al Class­room
Stu­dent Tech­nol­o­gy Sup­port IT (Stu­dent Tech­ni­cal Ser­vices) NIC web­site > Stu­dent Tech­ni­cal Ser­vices
Research Cen­tre for Applied Research, Tech­nol­o­gy & Inno­va­tion (CARTI) NIC web­site > CARTI
Research Ethics Research Ethics Board (REB) NIC web­site > Research Ethics
Aca­d­e­m­ic Qual­i­ty and Aca­d­e­m­ic Qual­i­ty Frame­work CTLI Teach Any­where web­site > Aca­d­e­m­ic Qual­i­ty