Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence

In the unprecedented time of this pandemic, please keep a few things in the forefront of your mind:

Switching your course from face-to-face to online teaching is occurring for emergency reasons.  You should do the best that you can and know it will not be a smooth learning process. This is okay!  It will be most important to maintain regular and substantive interactions with your students.  Know that your students are also stressed, concerned, and possibly unhealthy.  Be supportive, be transparent, and be someone who attempts to help the students through these new obstacles.   You are their connection to learning in a new world with significant changes.  Seek your campus resources for support.  Keep an open mind, an open heart, and embrace the new opportunity the best that you can.

Teaching Resources

Faculty Self Help & Guides:

• How To Quickly Convert Your Courses to Online Instruction
• Online Instruction Quick Start Guide
• How to Create and Join a Class Using Skype for Business
• How to forward your campus phone to a cell phone
• Copyright in Online Instruction
• Linking a Database Article to A Course
• Service Learning and Community Engagement Information

Training and Assistance:

Blackboard, Skype and Yuja, and pedagogy experts are currently available Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm, in the FCTE to do one-on-one training with faculty. Training is conducted on a first-come/first-served basis. Training after 4:30pm is available by appointment only. Contact information for these and other support resources are available below.  In addition, a Blackboard discussion board is available to post a question.  Please see OTH-FCTE and then “Join a Discussion.”

Student Resources

• Resources for Taking Online Classes
• How to Create and Join a Class Using Skype for Business
• Free Adobe Suite Access for Students Available Until May 31, 2020.

  Adobe has provided temporary at-home access for impacted students and educators, so that they can continue their work remotely. Please follow the instructions below to enable access to Creative Cloud Desktop Apps on your personal device. Please follow these steps to access the software:

  1. Visit https://creativecloud.adobe.com and use your school credentials to sign in
  2. When prompted, select Company or School Account, then enter your MyISU credentials
  3. Follow the on-screen prompts to access and download the Adobe Creative Cloud apps

• Loaner Laptops Available to Students
  Windows based laptop loaners will be available at the Technology Support Center (TSC) in Stalker Hall 009 (lower level) for students that have broken or malfunctioning computers. Please contact the TSC at 812-237-2910 if you would like to inquire about one.

• SPSS software will be available for free, unlimited use on student owned computers soon. More details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Important Contact Information