The week of 03.23 – 29, all f2f and hybrid sections in LA will transition to online instruction. Here is the AoS plan to support professors with this transition.
Mentors/eBuddies
- Faculty Contact: your department chair
- Mentor Contact: Wade Allen or your department chair
Your Mentor/eBuddy is an experienced online professor who can be a resource for you as you transition to the materials and techniques of online instruction.
Resources
We are encouraging each department to create Blackboard shells for each course or course cluster, to enable DL faculty to share discipline-specific content and teaching techniques. These materials will range from teaching tips to actual learning objects (like quizzes) that you can copy into your own Blackboard course.
This knowledge base repository of links, foundational skills and techniques contains generic resources that can help you with the challenges (and advantages!) of online teaching.
Administrative Team
The entire AoS administrative team is here to support you. We will provide services such as:
- high-speed duplex scanning to help you prepare course materials for online instruction
- training and support on apps and tools for teaching online (e.g., Zoom, Google Meet, and also Blackboard hacks)
TLED
TLED is offering dozens of Blackboard training courses all over the district to give you the foundational skills you need to mount and run your courses.
In addition, instructional designers are available to help you with design challenges and getting your current course translated into the online medium.
