Fall 2021 Blackboard Course Shells
Instructors can access Fall 2021 Blackboard courses.
Students would be able to access their Blackboard courses on Monday, August 9, 2021, after 9:30 p.m.
Fall 2021 Syllabus Template
A course syllabus serves as a contract between the faculty and students. To save faculty time and energy in searching campus policies to make the course syllabus, the Teaching and Learning Center provides the Fall 2021 Syllabus template.
All institutional policies are written in the template. Faculty could focus on their course-level policies. Please read the highlights in the syllabus and delete them after the reading.
If instructors used the Spring 2021 Syllabus Template, there is no need to duplicate the workload to adapt the new template. Please download the Fall 2021 Syllabus Corrections.
Fall 2021 Fully Online Course Template
Adapted from SUNY course templates, the Teaching and Learning Center provides an accessible course template to faculty who will teach online courses in Fall 2021.
Fall 2021 Fully Online Course Template
After you download the template zip file, please follow the tutorial to import it in Blackboard.
If faculty used the Spring 2021 course template, it is recommended to use the course copy feature to copy the Spring 2021 courses to Fall 2021 courses, then adjust the date. Please read the Blackboard tips below.
Questionnaire for LMS Transition
As many of you may know, SUNY's system-wide contract for its Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) expires on December 21, 2022.
To prepare for this LMS Transition and gather faculty and staff feedback, concerns, and questions, the Educational Technology Committee, a College Senate Standing Committee, and the Workforce and Educational Development Area would like to gather information to help discuss this fall 2021 and plan for the local LMS change after December 2022.
Questionnaire for LMS Transition.
The Questionnaire should be completed prior to Wednesday, August 25, 2021.