Starting Fall 2004, no courses will be available to students on the WebCT server. All courses will need to be offered via the VISTA server. You are responsible for working with the Faculty Resource Center to ensure that your courses will be available on the VISTA server. Please read more about this important move. [More Information]

If you are using VISTA for the first time, creating a new course site for an online or face-to-face course, or simply interested in what it might take to start teaching with online resources, you should read our start up information. [More Information]

Department chairs are now constantly asked to make decisions about online and distributed course section assignments and then confronted with how to support their faculty as they begin teaching in these environments. Our guide for department chairs answers questions frequently asked by BCC department chairs and tells you what you should know about FRC services as you prepare your faculty for teaching with online environments. [More Information]

The Faculty Resource Center employs a team of student graphic and web designers in order to support faculty teaching in online environments. If you have a course site, a multimedia project idea, graphic design or other website development work you would like to see accomplished, come talk with us. We can have most projects defined before the end of week 2, the quarter before you wish to teach. [More Information]

This guide illustrates common practices BCC faculty use to support their students in online environments. Faculty members using these guidelines have reported that the number of logistical questions they field from students has greatly declined. For each category listed in the guide, The Faculty Resource Center has sample documents created by BCC faculty they can share with you upon request [More Information]

The 'VID' or the Virtual Instructional Designer is a set of curriculum design resources for faculty teaching with online technologies. The site was developed by Indiana State University (ISU), Ivy Tech State College (Ivy Tech) and Vincennes University (VU) with a 3-year LAAP grant from 1999 to 2002.  Over 12 curriculum designers collaborated on researching and organizing the materials made available here.  It is truly a wonderful resource! [http://www.thevid.org]

Here is a list of terms used in online instruction and the working definitions we use here at Bellevue Community College. [More Information]

It is common at Bellevue Community College to have instructors teach online courses that were developed by another BCC faculty member. Deciding who is responsible for what in such an arrangement is a department decision. We have worked with faculty to develop this set of role definitions that you and/or your department may find useful. A special thanks to Rhonda Gilliam for her work on this. [More Information]

This guide will give you the information you need to successfully load students into our VISTA course section each quarter. You should check back here EACH QUARTER as we are updating software on the campus continually and this often results in changes to our process for importing students. [More Information]

Here you will find the forms you need to request a new VISTA course section, a listserv, or a course related website. [More Information]

All faculty and staff using VISTA should be subscribed to the VISTAFACULTY listserv. This listserv allows us to inform you of important dates, planned server outages, and major VISTA bugs. It also allows you to talk to other faculty using VISTA any time day or night. [More Information]

What kinds of technical skills should you have before you begin teaching online? This inventory is a full list to consider when working with a mentor or preparing to teach online for the first time. [More Information]