[ARCHIVED] [ARCHIVED] Does your college or university have a minimum usage policy?

[dbarr3]

Does your college or university have a minimum usage policy? If so what is it, and is it different for full or part time faculty?

[thebert]

Thank you for the clarification, Kona. That makes perfect sense.

RE: Minimum Usage by Faculty

We have no such requirement. Adoption of technology has been good, probably because we have been developing online courses since 2005. Growth has been steady.

All faculty know they may participate; they all know that our support department is happy to help; they all know the inevitability of the situation.

Our adoption has been top-down. Our Academic Dean is young and tech-savvy; he’s an evangelist and promoter of these tools. Since he teaches online and hybrid courses, he leads by example. Periodically in a faculty meeting, he will invite an instructor to demonstrate how he/she uses technology. This is contagious. After such a presentation, I receive calls and inquiries about doing the same.

The only department with no Canvas presence is our PhD program. They have expressed no interest.

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Terry L Hebert, ThM, DMin

Online & Distance Education

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[dbarr3]

Terry, as Kona addressed below the question was about a minimum use for faculty. What should faculty be required, if anything, to post in every Canvas course?

[hunter]

Southern Utah University asks (but not official policy) that a syllabus is posted in each course and that at least two learning outcomes are measured. Our syllabus policy dictates what needs to be in a syllabus (include contact information.)

Thanks to Ken at Utah State University, there is a unique Design Tool that works with Canvas that will show a chart and then a breakdown for every course (by college) that does and does not have a published syllabus (using the Canvas Syllabus tool).

Administration can pull the syllabus report as well as a learning mastery report (by department, college, and university) and knowing that administration is pulling reports has been a great benefit for getting more professors to use Canvas.

[dbarr3]

Jennifer, do you have the ability to send me more information on the design tool that you use? That sounds very helpful indeed.

[bdye]

I believe she is talking about the same Syllabus Tool we utilize.

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[khilton]

My community college requires all faculty to post an announcement, the gradebook, the syllabus and at least one assignment through Canvas. Does anyone check this? No.

[acatterson]

Would you be willing to share that policy, Kimberly?

Anna