Teach Anywhere

New Faculty Resources

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, Policies
 Getting Started with Your Course
Prepare Students to Learn

  • Includes: Student Expectations, Student Supports (DALS), Metacognition, Orienting to the Course Outline, 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, Meeting Drop Deadlines
 Wrapping Up Your Course

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

 
Submitting Final Grades: For All Instructors

  • Process for submitting grades at end of a course.
 New Instructors: Tips for Success

 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.