General Reminders for CCCOnline Instructors

Greetings! Today, Terry Reeves, CCCOnline’s Dean of Academic Instruction, has a few reminders for instructors as we begin the semester.

Hello,
I hope this message finds you doing well. As we’re starting spring session 2 soon, here are some “fyi” updates:

· Spring session one enrollment is up about 4% from last spring; spring session two is currently 3% above from last year, but it may pick up a bit more before the second session starts.

· A great resource is our “Who to Contact” page if you need help within CCCOnline. Please see http://at.ccconline.org/faculty/wiki/Policies_&_Procedures_-_Who_to_Contact.

· For CCCOnline related business, you must use your CCCS email address; do not use your personal email address. For confidentiality purposes (e.g., FERPA) personal email is not secure.

· CCCOnline is conducting a search for an Executive Director. We hope to have someone on board soon and look forward to sharing that news with you.

· Course Signals is coming soon. Course Signals is software developed by Purdue University as an early alert system using Data from D2L and Banner to allow an instructor to set criteria for early alerts. More information will be forthcoming, but wanted to give you all a heads-up as this will help us to further help our students.

· Maria Schnell recently joined our Training Team as our eLearning Specialist; we’re happy she’s here! If you have questions about training, please contact Maria at maria.schnell@cccs.edu. If you would like to know more about her, please see http://cccoexcellence.blogspot.com/2011/12/introducing-our-new-elearning.html.

Thank you for being a part of CCCOnline and for the teaching expertise you offer our system students. I know many of you also do course development and training work with us. Please know your efforts are noticed and appreciated. I wish you all a smooth-going and successful semester.

Best,
Terry