LibGuides: Fletcher Center Teaching and Learning Resources: Distance Learning

Online teaching

HCC Guidebook for Distance Learning
Comprehensive guidebook for online and blended courses at Hagerstown Community College. Includes step-by-step guidelines for designing your online course

Getting Your Course Online
Guide for converting an in-person class to an online version
ACUE Online Teaching Toolkit
Welcoming students, managing your online presence, organizing your online course, planning and facilitating discussions, recording effective microlectures, and engaging students
How to Be a Better Online Teacher
Advice on how to make your online pedagogy as effective and satisfying as the in-person version, including 10 essential practices of better online teaching, common misperceptions, and finding help
Online Community-Building
Equity Unbound has teamed up with OneHE to develop open educational resources for online community-building.
QM Emergency Remote Instruction Checklist
Design for remote instruction, beginning with preparing students for success and continuing through guiding their learning
QM Higher Education Rubric, 6th ed.
Non-annotated version of Quality Matters Rubric Specific Review Standards for course design
How to Effectively Shift to Online Teaching: The Ultimate Guide
Guide to using video to humanize course content and leverage asynchronous learning for better student outcomes
“Help! I’m Moving My Course Online!”– Practical Advice for New Online Instructors
Free one-week access to the basics for first-time online instructors

Small Teaching Online by Flower Darby, James M. Lang
The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn. (Print edition available from Fletcher Center Library)

Resources sites in D2L

D2L Training for Instructors
Learn how to use D2L to organize content, upload and create files, create quizzes and assignments, grade and organize your gradebook, support student engagement, and communicate with students. This self-paced course is accessed using the All or Training tab on your D2L home page.
Main Instructor Resources
Tutorials, downloads, and activation keys for e-learning tools such as inclusive access, Gradescope, Turnitin, Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor, Ally and other accessibility tools, Respondus 4.0 test authoring, SoftChalk, and video tools Panopto, Snagit, and Camtasia

Online teaching in art, math and science

Presentation on creating a virtual gallery tool to enable art students to display their work. Presenters: Shayna Jansen-Byers, adjunct instructor of art, and Leia Thompson Wood, instructional designer, of Hagerstown Community College, for a Maryland Online conference November 2022

Virtual Gallery Template File
Virtual Gallery Template © 2022 by Shayna Jansen-Byers and Leia Thompson Wood is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Teaching Lab Sciences and Fine Arts Remotely
Article from Inside Higher Ed about how faculty members find ways to teach lab sciences and studio art effectively online
Top 10 Practices for Teaching Online Math
List of proven practices from Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics (TPSE Math)
Teaching Science Totally Online
The "Godfather of Online Science" shares tips for using science lab kits and SoftChalk lesson authoring software to create high-quality online lab science courses that transfer

Quality Matters training for online course design

Applying the QM Rubric Workshop

Part 1: June 1, 2023, from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Part 2: June 2, 2023, from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

On campus at Hagerstown Community College

Contact Fletcher Center for information (fletchercenter@hagerstowncc.edu).

Quality Matters (QM) is a non-profit organization that promotes and improves the quality of online course design through professional development and course peer review. Hagerstown Community College is a Higher Education Member of QM.

Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR), QM's flagship workshop, is available from the Fletcher Faculty Development Center in a 2-week online format and a one-day in-person format. In addition to learning about the QM Rubric and the course review process, participants will learn to apply the concept of alignment and draft helpful recommendations for course improvement. APPQMR is the prerequisite for the Peer Reviewer Course, the required course to become a QM Peer Reviewer. Participants who complete the workshop earn a certificate of completion from QM.

Access your QM certificate
View, download or print your QM certificate at MyQM> My Activity> Certificates. If you did not complete the workshop evaluation, you will need to do that in order to generate a certificate.
Access your QM digital credential
This page provides instructions for accessing a digital version of your QM credentials to include in an email signature, resume or social media page.

Respondus tools

Academic Testing Center: Faculty Guides and Forms

This page includes information for using the Academic Testing Center:

Academic Testing Center Guidelines
Academic Testing Center Instructor Form
D2L - Creating Two Versions of a Quiz
Network Restrictions
Respondus Guide

Respondus LockDown Browser locks down a test-taker's browser during the test.

Respondus Monitor is a proctoring tool for remote test-taking.

General resources

Pearson and McGraw Hill integrations

Pearson and McGraw Hill use LockDown Browser in their platforms
Respondus recommends setting up an integration for Monitor in Pearson MyLab instead of linking through a D2L quiz
1-on-1 office hours are available with a Respondus trainer. Schedule an appointment using the LockDown Browser Dashboard in your course