FAQ Info

Online Courses and Blackboard

How do I setup a new Blackboard course? Blackboard Courses are automatically setup for any credit course.

How do I roll over an existing course into a new course for the upcoming semester? You are able to copy existing course materials into a new course. This is a very common practice at the beginning of a new semester as course shells are created for each new semester. To copy your course please follow these instructions.

I want to keep my old course on Blackboard, but don't want the students to see it, how do I do this? To make a course unavailable, go into the course you want to hide, go to the Control Panel, Click on Settings, then Course Availability, and choose No. Then click the submit button.

I have old courses on Blackboard that I don't need any more, how do I get rid of them? If you have old courses that you would like to get rid of, go into the course you want to get rid of, go to the Control Panel, Click on Settings, then Course Name and Description, and add the word delete to the Course Name. Then click the submit button. We will then remove the course when things slow down.

I want to update my course information on CLC-Online, how do I do this? If you are teaching an Online or Hybrid course your course information is listed on CLC-Online. Most of this information can be updated by the course instructor through the CLC Online Faculty site. Please log into the CLC Online Faculty site and update your course information before resistration starts. Instructions on using the ClC Online Faculty site.

When I log into the CLC Online Faculty site I do not see my course, what do I do? When you log in, if you see a course listed that you are not teaching or a course is missing that you will be teaching please let Scott Rial or Russ Pearson know right a way so it can be updated. Instructions on using the ClC Online Faculty site.

PDC Workshops

How can I earn Career Development credit by taking PDC classes?

Career Development Procedures for
CLC Professional Development Center Classes

The use of three (3) hours earned from attending specific professional development workshops at CLC has been approved toward one (1) Career Development Plan.  Please see Policy 961 Compensation for Career Development Activities.

The procedures for workshops approved for this purpose are as follows:

            Procedures for Professional Development Center Classes

• Over the course of one (1) academic year, a maximum of 48 contact hours can be acquired from attending CLC staff training classes.  This amounts to three (3) hours that could be allotted to any one (1) Career Development Plan.
  
  
• The limit per semester is sixteen (16) contact hours.
  
  
• Contact hours can be rolled over to the next fiscal year until the number of full credit hours are earned.
  
  
• A course can only be applied once.
  
  
• Supervisory approval is required and is based on the needs of the department/division.
  
  
• The completed Career Development Plan must state that the employee will use staff training contact hours as part of their plan.  The exception would be for plans already in place at the time of implementation.  
         
• Courses excluded for contact hours are:  new employee training classes
  (including all Outlook classes), new Administrator training, Health and Safety classes, PeopleSoft sessions, classes devoted primarily to teaching, any customized departmental training, institutionally mandated training, certain general interest classes which are informational in nature and not professional development, i.e., retirement planning, and any classes for implementation of new technology or college initiatives.
  
  
• The Professional Development Center registration web pages indicate the
  amount of contact hours and who can receive the contact hours, i.e., faculty, staff, or both (crossover classes).  It is the employee’s responsibility to note which classes have contact hours.
  
  
• It is the employee’s responsibility to report the earned credits to Human
  Resources.  The employee can track and document their training from the   
  Professional Development registration page.
  
  
• Employees are not required to make up work time.  The PDC programs are
  designed specifically for college initiatives defined by the strategic goals.
  
  
• Questions regarding these procedures should be directed to the Director of
  Workplace Learning and Performance in the Professional Development Center, ext. 2224.
  
  
• These procedures will be reviewed annually by the Executive Director, Human Resources.