The goal of this website is to provide resources for faculty teaching in a face-to-face environment, and to increase readiness of new faculty teaching and facilitating face-to-face courses.

This website provides access to resources that are frequently used by the experienced online faculty member, including:

• ODU Academic Calendar and Exam Schedule
• The Syllabus Generator and Content Templates (CLT ID and password are required to access these resources)
• Blackboard and Faculty/Student Communication System (FSCS) Quick References
• Copyright Issues
• Collecting Student Feedback
• Posting Grades

By completing this orientation, you should expect:

• to become familiar with basic course preparation requirements (syllabus, course activities, etc.).
• to gain a basic familiarity with appropriate teaching strategies for face-to-face environments;
• to get acquainted with course communication and interaction tools and protocols;
• to be fairly comfortable with course delivery software and hardware and boost your technical proficiency;
• to be able to resolve technical problems or find appropriate assistance, if needed.

To gain the most knowledge from this orientation and resources, we recommend that you review each section thoroughly. You are strongly encouraged to:

• Review the delivery modes matrix.
• Complete the Computer Literacy survey. These surveys will help you identify what skills or learning strategies you may need to work on in order to be successful with online teaching.

Finally, please take a few moments to complete the feedback form. Your answers will help us better support you.