Offering an Online Course

How to Deliver an Online Distance Education (DE) Course

• For a course to be offered online, it must first be developed through our online course development process and added to our database. If your course has not been developed through our process, you must contact the Extended Campus to schedule official development. A distance education course can be hybrid with synchronous (real-time instruction, scheduled discourse) or fully online asynchronous (self-paced instruction, unscheduled discourse). Be sure you are familiar with the different online progams models.
• Contact the Extended Campus prior to placing any DE course in the Banner System.
  The Extended Campus uses special section number coding on DE courses to easily identify them, indicate mode of delivery, and to generate focus reports. These special codes must be placed in Banner for DE courses to assess the appropriate tuition and fee charges. This helps the Extended Campus to provide a complete listing of DE courses to post on A&T Online, the NCAT website, other websites, advertise the courses to students, and to keep proper accounting of all DE courses.
• Hire your faculty members.
  It is the responsibility of the department to hire faculty and process all employment packets. (The Extended Campus does not provide financial support for the delivery of DE courses.)
• Submit textbook information to the Bookstore. It is the responsibility of the department to provide the Bookstore with proper textbook information for all DE courses.
• Please note: Online courses must be delivered by using Blackboard Learn, which is the official Learning Management System (LMS) for the University. If you need assistance with using Blackboard Learn, please contact ITTD for training or Blackboard Support for technical issues at 336-285-4496 or bbsupprt@ncat.edu.
• Notify the Extended Campus if you will need assistance with: Student recruitment or registration, or online course development.

To inquire about delivering a DE course, contact Gwen Godard (godardg@ncat.edu or 336-285-3810).

How to Deliver a Face-to-Face Distance Education (DE) Course Away from the Campus

• Contact the Extended Campus prior to placing any DE course in the Banner System.
  The Extended Campus uses special section number coding on DE courses to easily identify them, indicate mode of delivery, and to generate focus reports. These special codes must be placed in Banner for DE courses to assess the appropriate tuition and fee charges. This helps the Extended Campus to provide a complete listing of DE courses to post on A&T Online, UNC Online, and other websites, advertise the courses to students, and to keep proper accounting of all DE courses.
• Secure a site location for the course.
  If the delivery of the DE course will involve video streaming, make sure technicians (host and delivery site) will be available. If technological equipment is needed, make sure it will be available and accessible to you and/or your students.
• Hire your faculty members.
  It is the responsibility of the department to hire faculty and process all employment packets. (The Extended Campus does not provide financial support for the delivery of DE courses.)
• Submit textbook information to the Bookstore.
  It is the responsibility of the department to provide the Bookstore with proper textbook information for all DE courses.
• Please let the Extended Campus know if you will need assistance with Student recruitment or registration.