IT for Faculty
The Academic Technology department provides a wide range of applications and services to support the teaching and learning mission in the classroom and online. These services include assisting faculty in redesigning courses for online and hybrid learning; working with faculty and staff to create accessible websites and learning materials; and designing and creating engaging physical and virtual learning environments. Among the applications supported by Academic Technology are the learning management systems (Moodle and WebCT), web conferencing (Elluminate), video production, video streaming, and smart classrooms.
News and Updates
Microsoft Exchange for Faculty
Faculty email was recently transferred to Microsoft Exchange. For additional information, visit http://www.csun.edu/it/services/facultyemail.html.
Teaching and Learning Bytes Fall Schedule Set
Our popular series highlighting how faculty are using technology in their teaching will resume on Tuesday, October 20, 12:30-1:30. This session will feature Talin Saroukhanian discussing "Teaching with Facebook."
Facebook, the leading social media program, reports more than 300 million active users worldwide. Our students are already signing into this virtual environment on a daily basis. How can we take advantage of this platform to deliver learning content to our students? This presentation will cover some of the strategies and tools as well as the dos and don’ts of using Facebook to teach.
Talin is the Online Instruction Coordinator for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, one of this year’s Faculty Associates in Academic Technology, and a lecturer in Political Science, where she teaches online courses.
Please join us on October 20 at 12:30 in Oviatt 30 or online via Elluminate. To log onto the online session please use the ONLINE link under "Teaching & Learning Bytes" on the AT website.
Due to budget constraints we will be limited the number of sessions this semester but please hold the dates for our remaining Fall Teaching and Learning Bytes:
"Learning about Learning Objects"
Tuesday, November 10
Jorge Balbas, Mathematics
Elizabeth Altman, Library
Helen Heinrich, Library
Luiz Mendes, Library
"Creating a Virtual Classroom with Elluminate"
Tuesday, December 1
Ashley Skylar, Special Education, with her students
Adopt Moodle for Your Spring Courses
Our "Early Adopter" phase attracted nearly 200 faculty have adopted Moodle teaching over 300 courses this semester. We are now preparing for the Spring semester. We offer a series of three hands-on workshops from the basics to quizzes and the gradebook. We also offer online training from Lynda.com for both faculty and students. If you have been using WebCT, we can help you migrate your course content to Moodle. For more information on these and other Moodle services, please visit the Moodle information website.