Faculty Handbook

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Mentor Program

CCCOnline provides mentors to many first-term faculty, typically to those who have not taught online before. The goal of the program is to provide additional support for instructors teaching at CCCOnline. Faculty mentors assist with teaching issues such as managing the discussion area and direct first-term faculty towards the appropriate source for technical assistance should problems arise during the course of the term. They also provide feedback on teaching performance and suggest appropriate instructional methods and resources.
For more information contact your program chair.

Military Students

The individual colleges typically have special drop/withdrawal policies for military students. Please refer military students to advising and to their registrar if they are considering dropping a course due to changing military assignments.
Military students sometimes have difficulty accessing courses during times of heightened base security. When the student’s only Internet access is from a military base, access problems may make it necessary for the student to withdraw from the class.

Multimedia

Instructors are encouraged to utilize multimedia in their course shells. If you are interested in developing multimedia please contact you program chair. Your program chair will put you in touch with your course designer. Due to ADA issues it is not recommended that instructors develop multimedia without assistance from a course designer.

Mutual Respect in Communications

The following statement is found in all CCCOnline syllabi:

A very important aspect of online learning is respectful communication. The CCCOnline Learning Community is based on the value of mutually respectful communication.
Upon enrolling in programs in CCCOnline, students assume responsibility for respectful communications with other students and with course instructors, including communications which do not disrupt the online environment.
Disruptive Communications:
Definition
--communications which disrupt the learning environment
--use of profanity and/or insulting or harassing remarks in email, discussions, chat or telephone communications.

Consequences
A student who participates in disruptive communications forfeits the right to further class participation and is subject to removal from all CCCOnline courses for the given term without reimbursement by CCCOnline.
A student who is suspended more than once for disruptive communications forfeits the right to further enrollments at CCCOnline.