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As an online instructor in Sakai, you may often need to add additional faculty or staff members to your courses. As the site owner, you have the ability to make these changes yourself—without contacting the Sakai administrator.
For instance, you may need to add a colleague to your course in order to team teach or share content. Additionally, you may need to add staff members, such as teaching assistants or course designers, to assist with managing your course. The step-by-step instructions below make the process quick and easy. Read Full Post
In the 1990s Chadron State College (CSC) was an established leader at the forefront of delivering synchronous instruction through the use of videoconferencing technology in higher education. The delivery spanned multiple transmission modalities, including dedicated satellite uplink/downlink over a Nebraska-owned satellite (NET3), telephone circuit-switched networks, and eventually the widespread use of optical fiber networks. My employment at CSC started near the peak of CSC’s Interactive Distance Learning (IDL) program. Read Full Post
Faculty and Staff:
February is generally a fleeting month and full of diversions (Mardi Gras, Chinese New Year, Black History Month and days commemorating presidents, St. Valentine, and a ground hog).
However, there’s so much going on at the College at the moment that February merits two updates this month. Read Full Post
Teaching & Learning Center (TLC) staffers turned out in force at this year’s Information Fair Luncheon (Student Center Ballroom, February 11, 2016) sponsored by Academic Affairs. Read Full Post
The Teaching & Learning Center will host a Summer Institute designed to assist faculty members in “tuning up” their online, hybrid, or web-enhanced courses. The two-day event (proposed for August 2016) offers interactive, hands-on sessions that guide participants in assessing, revising, and reinvigorating instructional components to make courses road-ready and to boost student performance. Read Full Post
Faculty and Staff:
As expressed by the poet Kathleen Norris, “There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.” Even as another storm is upon us, the daylight is steadily becoming longer and CSC faculty and staff continue to do great work day in and day out — as portrayed in this update. Read Full Post
There will be a scheduled maintenance outage for CSC-Online-Sakai on Monday, March 7, 2016, the first day of Mid-Term Break. Faculty and students should plan accordingly.
The learning management system (LMS) will be offline for the day so that it can be upgraded. Two changes will be made during the maintenance window. First, CSC will be moved to the community release of Sakai; second, Sakai will be updated to version 10.5. These changes are integral to improved performance and will be completed in one, comprehensive upgrade. Read Full Post
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