New Instructor Checklist

There is a lot of information about the Department of Information Technology (IT) and the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Technology (TLT), but here is one place where you can quickly find information you need to get started.

Click here to meet TLT and click here to find and contact your Instructional Technologist.

And watch the video New Faculty Orientation to learn more about resources to get your semester started and how TLT can assist and checkout the Playlist of additional videos to learn more about professional development opportunities.


	ITEM	ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
☐	Classrooms
	Academic room assignments are designated by the Registrar’s office	Visit Classroom Technology page: How to enter a classroom Find out what technology is or is not in the room How to use the technology in the classroom
☐	Learning Management System
	OAKS is the College’s learning management system and is built on the Desire2Learn/brightspace platform. The online course environment provides tools that help foster collaboration and communication, and facilitate learning outside the classroom. To access OAKS go to my.cofc.edu>log in with your Cougars username and password> click on the OAKS icon in the upper right.	Review the Checklist for Getting the Semester started Review the Getting Started Quick Guide for new users Step by step video and text tutorials How Do I questions For questions about using OAKS contact your Instructional Technologist.
☐	Software
	Some of CofC campus-wide software licenses are: Google Apps for Education– full range of applications available to both students and faculty that includes Calendar, Drive, forms for surveys, website and blog creation. Kaltura -YouTube-like online media area available to both students and faculty. Upload tutorials, online lectures, original work or create screen casts. PollEverywhere – on-line based audience response system, similar to clickers. Voicethread– online media album available to both students and faculty that allows people to comment on slides using voice, text, audio or video. VT Campus license Adding VT to OAKS	View a full list of software available to faculty
☐	Web Services
	IT offers two blogging platforms, Blogger (part of Google apps) and WordPress. Faculty can request a WordPress blog by contacting Helpdesk	For more information visit IT web services.
☐	Your Office
	TLT does not provide your office equipment or software, but we do have equipment that you can check out for 10 days and we also have a facility, the Faculty Technology Center (FTC), that has specialized software and tools that you can use.	Checkout a variety of tools such as laptops, iPads, digital voice recorders and cameras. Visit our equipment checkout form to see a full list and reserve. View more information about the Faculty Technology Center (FTC)
☐	Help?
	Instructional Support? TLT provides face to face and online professional development sessions through out the year on a variety of tools and topics. Visit our list of sessions. Tutorials for OAKS? Visit our OAKS tutorials page. Tutorials for technology tools? ( e.g. PollEverywhere, Voicethread, Kaltura) Visit the TLT Tutorials Blog. View the Top 10 questions from New Faculty	Be sure to also visit the IT webpage to learn about other IT departments and services including Help Desk.

New Instructor Checklist

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