Faculty Resources: What resources are available to help me teach online?
Cline Library:
- For a PDF of a journal article or a chapter out of a book, complete the Request Course Reserves Items form and select Reserve Type: Electronic Reserves.
- For streaming copies of library- or NAU-owned audio or video, complete the Request Course Reserves Items form and select Reserve Type: Digitized Streaming Media.
- For questions about Electronic Reserves and streaming media, contact Course Reserves: Course.Reserves@nau.edu; (928) 523-9142.
- For assistance with finding and incorporating other library resources, contact Faculty Services.
IRB Materials:
If you're doing an experiment that involves human subjects, these resources may be helpful.
Disability Resources:
Students with disabilities should contact Disability Resources for assistance, and should notify their instructor as soon as possible if they need to request an accommodation.
Usable Materials Center:
The Usable Materials Center is available to faculty and staff and will convert inaccessible documents and files into accessible formats, create caption files for video content, and create transcripts of audio files. If you would like to request documents or files to be converted, would like caption files created for video files, or transcripts for audio files you can submit your requests at http://nau.edu/Disability-Resources/Usable-Materials-Request-Form. Please fill out the form, upload the files or media you would like them to work on and submit. If you have questions or would like further instructions for submitting requests please feel free to contact the UMC at usable.materials@nau.edu. NOTE: This service is coordinated by Disability Resources.
Academic Integrity Resources:
The NAU Student Handbook contains important information on academic integrity and other important policies. e-Learning has also built a Blackboard course on academic integrity into which your students can self-enroll.
Copyright Notice:
It's a good idea to put a copyright notice in your class, such as: "Materials found within this course are the property of the instructor and/or the publisher and/or Northern Arizona University, and may not be distributed without express permission." This makes it very clear that a student should not copy content and share it with others outside the class, post it online, contribute it to a test bank, etc.
FERPA:
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) requires that instructors take certain measures to protect the privacy of their students and student records. FERPA restricted students will appear in your Blackboard roster not by name, but rather as Student1, Student2, etc. Please review the responsibilities of instructors related to FERPA. There is a required FERPA training that you should take before teaching your first class.
Communication Tools:
You have several ways to contact your students outside of Blackboard Learn, even before your course starts:
- Class Mailing List: You can use the Class Mailing List tool. This tool also lets you set up a "Welcome Message" that all students will receive -- and that new students will receive automatically as they enroll! This tool may be used as soon as students are enrolled in your course, regardless of whether it has started or is available to your students yet in Bb Learn.
- Class Roster Tool: Instructors may easily obtain class rosters including student's email addresses using the Class Roster Request Form. Just enter the semester and class number, then choose from the options -- what type of information you need, and how you'd like it delivered. The tool is also available from the NAU Department Index (Rosters>Class).
NAU Bookstore
Contact the bookstore to pre-order books, clickers, and other materials for your class.
Faculty Professional Development
The Faculty Professional Development Program offers opportunities for professional development in teaching to enrich success in student learning, plays a key role in strengthening a learning-centered campus culture leading to student success, advances new teaching and learning initiatives that impact student success, fosters collegial dialogue within and among faculty and campus partners about effective teaching, and serves as a convenor to showcase faculty expertise in teaching.