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:
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| ☐ | Learning Management System | |
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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. |
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| ☐ | Software | |
Some of CofC campus-wide software licenses are:
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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. | |
| ☐ | Help? | |
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Be sure to also visit the IT webpage to learn about other IT departments and services including Help Desk. |
