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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.

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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.

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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.

Course Set-Up

Use the resources below to help with course set-up:

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.

Create your Own Sandbox Site in Brightspace

Need help importing a course into a Brightspace Sandbox?

Import a Course Package into Brightspace

Clean Up Brightspace Sandbox After Import

Already have a Sandbox? Use the below resources to copy/import from one Brightspace course to another.

Copy/Import Entire Course from Brightspace

Copy/Import Selected Items from Brightspace

Brightspace CRN sites will populate under the current semester in Brightspace as assignments are made in Banner.

Course Combines:

The process of course combinations within Brightspace can be found below:

Course Combines

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. Due to this, it is recommended to build courses in a sandbox site and proceed with a course copy once it is confirmed who the instructor is and that the course will run. There are times that a previous instructor may elect to share their content with you that they built before the reassignment, or it may not be appropriate to share the content for various reasons. In these events some course clean-up may need to be completed before or after the reassignment. 

Course Roles:

Learn about the different course roles and how to add them to your course.

Add People (Users) and Select Roles

Pre-Course Planning

After a course is set-up use the resources below to assist in planning and preparation:

Syllabus Resources

Course Outline

Regular and Substantive Instruction (RSI)

Course Delivery Modalities

Artificial Intelligence:

Statement of Principle Regarding AI

AI Workshop and Training

Suggested Syllabus Language Regarding AI

Publisher Content: Syncing publisher content to Brightspace is not always done in the same way, faculty should work directly with the publisher representative to ensure proper linking. 

Resources for faculty and students:

D2L's Brightspace for Faculty.

How-To Documents 

Training Information

D2L's Brightspace for Students

Faculty Digital Accessibility

Best Practices for Accessibility Compliance

D2L- ALLY for Faculty

Contact the Digital Accessibility Specialist on the Instructional Design & Learning Excellence team to help implement digital accessibility into a course.

Engagement Throughout the Term

Keep students active and engaged throughout the term using the resources below:

Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) is required of all instructors teaching online or blended courses. Visit our RSI page for more information.

Attendance reporting takes place during the first two weeks of the term. Check the academic calendar for deadlines throughout the term.

Software and Technology Resources are provided for faculty to help meet the needs of their educational environment.

There are a variety of online learning technology resources supported by the Office of Online Learning and Academic Technology (OLAT). 

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Finalizing the Term

Finish out the term and prepare for the next semester using the resources below:

To access Faculty Grading Instructions follow these steps:

1. Log in to my Tri-C space

2. Locate the Faculty Grading Card

3. Select Grading Instructions/Schedules

Brightspace Resources:

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Turn Final Grade Visibility On/Off for Students

View Student Grade History (via Event Log)

View Grades and Data of Unenrolled Students

Data Retention:

Student graded CRN/ZCRN courses are archived after 2 years.

Sandbox/Department site are not deleted/archived. 

  • Need to delete a Sandbox course? Deletion form coming soon.

It is recommended to build and prep courses in a Sandbox site. When preparing for next term in a Sandbox site:

  • Clean up course content
  • Delete unused/unwanted course content
  • Try and test Brightspace advanced features.
    • Ready to try something new?: Visit the Brightspace for Faculty How-To Documents page to explore resources available to help you get started.
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