Whether you want to earn a degree, improve your skills, get certified, train for a new career, or explore a new hobby, you can choose from many programs and courses.
Explore your interests and find a program that puts you on the path to a bright future. Tri-C offers both credit and non-credit courses as well as certificate programs in most career fields.
More than 1,000 credit courses are offered each semester in more than 200 career and technical programs. Tri-C also grants short-term certificates, certificates of proficiency and post-degree professional certificates.
Tri-C's Workforce Training provides both non-credit and credit training for individuals and businesses to assist individuals with skills leading to employment. Tri-C's Corporate College provides professional development and corporate training opportunities.
Tri-C offers a variety of affordable and convenient community programs for both adults and youth. These programs are designed to promote individual development.
This roadmap has been developed to ensure faculty feel supported and informed as they head into their semester and beyond. This roadmap is broken down by alignment categories to help those identify the tools they need to ensure teaching success as faculty plan for their course, teach their course, and wrap up their course.
Workshops are available in Compass. On-demand training courses are available any time. We also offer synchronous, asynchronous, and in-person training. The list of trainings can be found on the Faculty Development Calendar.
Resources for Blackboard and D2L's Brightspace can be found on this page.
Course Set-Up
Use the resources below to help with course set-up:
Blackboard: Sandbox course sites are available to all faculty members and are a recommended method for building a course. Entire courses can be built in a sandbox and then copied into a live course once the CRN becomes available. These sites offer the same tools and functionality as a CRN-based course site. Since there are no students in these site(s) tools and delivery methods can be tested without the worry of impeding student learning. Additionally, these sites will remain available to faculty as long as they remain with Tri-C.
Need help completing a course copy? Watch this Course Copy video for step by step instructions.
D2L's Brightspace: If you would like to request Brightspace sandbox(es), please complete this request form. Once they are ready, you will be notified. Currently, you may request a maximum of five (5) sandbox sites. For those who are eager to begin learning before the launch of Tri-C’s official required Brightspace training, please feel free to access D2L's Brightspace Guided Training.
Blackboard: CRN courses or CRNs refer to the live courses which faculty are assigned to teach. Available to be requested 90 days prior to course start date. These are the online sites that the students will have access to view subject content, submit assignments and may view grades. CRN’s are maintained for 2 years and 1 semester.
Course Combines: Courses that are assigned to the same instructor and are coded (same Modality; same Start/End Date) the same in the system can be automatically combined through the Course Site Request Tool by the instructor at the time of requesting the Blackboard course site.
Note: if needing to combine a lecture with a lab, add that note to the special instructions at the time of the course site request. (please include all CRN’s in the note)
Course Reassignments: Reassignments can occur due to fluctuations in enrollment, emergency leave or other unforeseen circumstances. Many times, the course reassignment was completed well in advance. If your course is being taught in Blackboard and you just recently become a Tri-C faculty member the CRN course site may have already been requested and a help ticket will need to be submitted to assist. helpdesk@tri-c.edu
D2L's Brightspace: Information Coming Soon
Pre-Course Planning
After a course is set-up use the resources below to assist in planning and preparation:
Publisher Content: Syncing publisher content to Blackboard is not always done in the same way, faculty should work directly with the publisher representative to ensure proper linking. Additionally, to have publisher content sync with Blackboard, the publisher tools must be on. To verify, go to the Blackboard course site, then in the left navigation bar select Customization > Tool Availability. Scroll to the publisher tools and ensure all boxes are checked. Select Submit once done.