Prepare to Teach

1.

ABOUT NORTH ISLAND COLLEGE

• Lots of great infor­ma­tion about North Island Col­lege is just a fin­ger­tip away.
• You can learn inter­est­ing facts about the College’s size, stu­dent and employ­ee demo­graph­ics, bud­get, and oth­er details to give you con­text about the insti­tu­tion.
• Resource: NIC Web­page: Fast Facts and About Us
• Insti­tu­tion­al Strate­gic Plan Resource: BUILD 2026

2.

GET HELP: NIC SERVICE DESK + NIC TEACH ANYWHERE WEBSITE

• You can get help address­ing almost any con­cern or answer­ing almost any ques­tion by sub­mit­ting a tick­et at the NIC Ser­vice Desk
• Look for the cat­e­go­ry that fits under the Ser­vice Cat­a­log — or use the Gen­er­al Request
• Resource: NIC’s site for sup­ports in teach­ing and learn­ing, run by the Cen­tre for Teach­ing and Learn­ing Inno­va­tion Teach Any­where

3.

 BRIGHTSPACE: DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• North Island Col­lege uses Bright­space (by com­pa­ny, D2L) as its learn­ing man­age­ment sys­tem to sup­port stu­dent learn­ing.
• Every course has an auto­mat­i­cal­ly-cre­at­ed “shell” for adding con­tent, build­ing assess­ments etc. There is no require­ment to use Bright­space but it is strong­ly encour­aged for all deliv­ery for­mats.
• You can request a “sand­box” (man­u­al shell cre­at­ed by IT) to play and store infor­ma­tion in.
• Resource: Teach Any­where Page — Bright­space Train­ing Resources
• Resource: Login Page — NIC’s Bright­space
• Resource: Vis­it the NIC Ser­vice Desk > Ser­vice Cat­a­log > Teach­ing, Learn­ing, Ed Tech and Class­room Sup­port > Bright­space

4.

 KALTURA: VIDEO CREATION AND STREAMING STORAGE

• NIC has a video cre­ation and stream­ing stor­age plat­form for all employ­ees and stu­dents called Kaltura.
• Using video in your teach­ing is an excel­lent tool for shar­ing learn­ing with stu­dents, cre­at­ing per­son­al­ized wel­come videos, record­ing a slide deck pre­sen­ta­tion, and hav­ing stu­dents do assign­ments with video!
• Using Kaltura Cap­ture (free record­ing tool) you can cre­ate videos and upload them to your stor­age space from with­in Bright­space (go to Kaltura My Media on blue bar or with­in a course under “Tools”)
• Out­side of Bright­space, you can share and access your My Media same col­lec­tion of videos via NIC’s Medi­a­Space (pub­lic fac­ing YouTube-like envi­ron­ment)
• Resource: Teach Any­where Web­page: Kaltura Train­ing Resources
• Resource: NIC Medi­a­Space

5.

 KALTURA VIRTUAL CLASSROOM: WEB CONFERENCING PLATFORM

• NIC uses Kaltura Vir­tu­al Class­room for syn­chro­nous online learn­ing.
• With­in each Bright­space course (under Kaltura Media Gallery) you will find a link to a per­ma­nent vir­tu­al class­room for your course.
• If you wish to have an ‘office hours’ spot for pri­vate meet­ings, fol­low these instruc­tions on Cre­at­ing Office Hours Room.
• Resource: Teach Any­where Web­page — Kaltura Vir­tu­al Class­room Train­ing Resources

6.

POLICIES

• Instruc­tors have a respon­si­bil­i­ty to fol­low all of North Island College’s poli­cies in the exe­cu­tion of their duties.
• In addi­tion to the many edu­ca­tion­al poli­cies rel­e­vant to instruc­tors that will be described through­out these pages, instruc­tors should also famil­iar­ize them­selves with impor­tant orga­ni­za­tion poli­cies, includ­ing
  • 1–12: Research Involv­ing Humans
  • 1–20: Code of Eth­i­cal Con­duct
  • 2–08: Human Rights
  • 2–10: Pro­tec­tion of Employ­ees from Vio­lence
  • 2–15 Occu­pa­tion­al Health & Safe­ty
  • 2–17 Respect­ful Work­places and Pre­ven­tion of Bul­ly­ing & Harass­ment

7.

 TEXTBOOKS AND COURSE RESOURCES

• If you were new­ly assigned to the course, con­firm with your chair or dean’s office if there’s asso­ci­at­ed text­book, man­u­al, or oth­er resources.
• To order course mate­ri­als, com­plete a Course Mate­ri­als Request Ser­vice Desk Tick­et and answer the giv­en ques­tions.
• Please com­plete a Ser­vice Desk tick­et even if there is no text­book required for a course or if you plan to sup­ply these direct­ly (e.g. through Bright­space). This helps to ensure that stu­dents receive time­ly and accu­rate infor­ma­tion about their course mate­ri­als.
• Ensure you have the cor­rect course num­ber, sec­tion, and match­ing ISBN, includ­ing any­thing for online resources (Con­nect, MyLab, etc).
• You can con­tact your pub­lish­er to request a free instruc­tor copy.
• Watch for semes­ter­ly emails solic­it­ing course resource orders and be sure to meet the stat­ed dead­line. After that date, the pur­chas­ing depart­ment will begin order­ing based on the pre­vi­ous year’s assigned mate­r­i­al, mov­ing to a new edi­tion if required.
• Resource: Don’t for­get about free Open Edu­ca­tion Resources that help reduce the costs of post­sec­ondary edu­ca­tion. You can start by look­ing at BCcam­pus’ Open Col­lec­tion.
• Resource: Ques­tions to Con­sid­er about Text­books: Hand­out