Welcome to your course name Online Orientation

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Welcome to (your course name) Online Orientation

• Your Name
• Your Title

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Course Information

• Brief description of the course and how you teach
  it.

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Welcome

• Share some of welcome page info from FLO Packet.

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Instructor Information

• Your Name
• Your location on campus (if applicable)
• 000-000-0000 voice
• 000-000-0000 fax (if applicable)
• flname_at_RCC.VCCS.EDU
• Instant Messaging
• Your_Name_at_RCC Messenger, Yahoo, AOL
• Link to Faculty WebPage

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Instructor Availability

• Campus Office Hours (which campus or online
  office hours) Be sure to vary so that students
  have the opportunity to speak with you
  synchronously.
• Tuesday
• 900-1200 am

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Course Materials

• Title, ISBN, Picture of book (Please let us know
  if you need help getting a picture or graphic to
  use anywhere in this presentation)

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Technical Requirements

• Either copy the FLO packet material or add in
  something unique
• http//www.rcc.vccs.edu/distance_ed/flo/flostandar
  ds.htm

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Dates to Remember

• General Course Related Dates in general terms
• Add/drop is generally 2 weeks after classes start
• Withdrawal deadline is generally 9 weeks after
  classes start.
• Check in your FLO packet for exact dates

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Course Content Overview

• General overview, including the course
  description and/or introduction

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Course Content with Cartridge

• If you are using a course cartridge, you might
  want another slide here explaining the keycode
  and other important information.

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Grading/Evaluation

• Overview, maybe a copy from the FLO packet

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Testing

• Explain how you test, the type of test, number,
  open or closed book, online or paper etc.

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Getting Started with Assignments

• First two weeks work to get them going
• Have a required assignment that must be completed
  prior to add/drop or student will be dropped

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Evaluation

• In order to truly improve, we must evaluate the
  class. Please complete your course evaluation
  when posted in Blackboard near the end of the
  semester.
• Only you can make the course better by giving us
  constructive feedback.

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Help
FLO_at_rcc.vccs.edu
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Email and Blackboard Tips and Tricks

• If using AOL or other broadband internet
  providers, please open another browser such as
  Internet Explorer or Netscape 6.0 or higher.
• Make sure when sending attachments that the
  filename contains no spaces or special characters
  such as hyphens or symbols.
• If you cannot login to your blackboard or email
  account, please go to the student login page to
  fill out an error reporting form.
• If you are having trouble with opening blackboard
  or your email, make sure to view the VCCS outage
  page at http//helpnet.utility.vccs.edu/central/Lo
  gs/outagelog.htm.
• If you are typing a long email, you might want to
  type it in word and then cut and paste the
  information into your email message.
• Other tips can be seen at the VCCS Webmail FAQ
  page at http//webmail3.utility.vccs.edu/index.pl?
  funcusage
• If you are new to distance learning, you should
  attend the on campus orientation. If that is not
  possible, please attend the online orientation at
  http//www.rcc.vccs.edu/tegrity and select Online
  FLO Orientation.

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Have a great semester

• Encouraging words to get them started