“Web Enhanced,” “Hybrid,” and “Online” classes are the three most common formats for integrating web technologies into instruction. Using technology for instruction could be as simple as posting your syllabus online or as complex as a fully distant course offered asynchronously via the web. Most importantly, it can be whatever you want; these are simply the three classifications we use for administrative and scheduling reasons.

Web Enhanced Class

Web enhanced classes are those which use the internet to supplement usual classroom activities without replacing seat time. This could be a 3-credit class which meets three hours a week and, on top of that, requires students to check their grades online and participate in a weekly online discussion.Some professors will post their lectures online and then spend class time facilitating discussions or group activities instead of lecturing. Others will allow their less-articulate students an opportunity to participate by posting their thoughts to an online discussion board. Another possibility is to do online testing, assignment submission, and grade delivery online. Web technologies can serve you and your students in a variety of ways to enhance or expand face-to-face instruction. Campus Edition 6.0 is the recommended tool for this because it is the most robust, it integrates with Banner, and if you ever move on to Hybrid or Online courses you’ll already be familiar with some of Campus Edtion's features.  Read more...[+/-]
>> Possible Tools: Campus Edition 6.0* (recommended), My chemeketa Course Tools, Newterra

Hybrid Class

Hybrid classes are those which blend classroom activities with online activities and do so in a way that requires less time in the classroom. For example, a 3-credit hybrid course might meet for 1 hour each week and then have 2 hours of mandatory online activities. The definitive element of all hybrids is that time online formally replaces seat time. Hybrid classes, unlike Web Enhanced classes, are distinguished in the schedule with an “hy” next to the class. Class times and locations are listed along with web requirements and departments need to enter into Banner a session code. Faculty developing a hybrid class will typically discover that instruction needs to be reconfigured. If there will only be 1 hour of “seat time” and 2 hours of time online, then the two mediums need to be aligned with each other for optimum use of in-class time. Our instructional technologists can assist you with this.  Read more... [+/-]
>> Possible Tools: Campus Edition 6.0

Online Class

Online classes are offered completely from a distance using Campus Edition 6.0, Chemeketa’s learning management system. These types of classes rarely or never meet face to face and all learning activities happen asynchronously from a distance. Through web pages, threaded discussion boards, email and other tools, students interact with course materials, other students, and the instructor. A typical week of online instruction is actually quite similar to a campus class: there are textbook readings, a lecture containing the instructor’s insights, class participation via a discussion board, and assignments or quizzes that need to be submitted. Collaborative group projects are a common occurrence, publisher quiz banks can be easily uploaded into the course, and audio or video files are becoming more prevalent as new technologies emerge and broadband access spreads.  Read more...[+/-]
>> Possible Tools: Campus Edition 6.0

Campus Edition 6.0

Campus Edition 6.0 is Chemeketa’s primary learning management system and the recommended tool for Online, Hybrid and most Web Enhanced classes. It offers a wide variety of learning, communication and assessment tools for facilitating an online classroom. It also integrates with Chemeketa’s Banner system and My chemeketa, so students are seamlessly loaded into the appropriate Campus Edition 6.0 “shell” based on the course CRN. Following are a few of Campus Edition's available tools. If you are interested, you can request a Campus Edition 6.0 “Shell” here.

• Discussion Board
• Email (course-specific & separate from My Chemeketa)
• Chat, Whiteboard
• Content / File Manager
• Gradebook (new “Export to Banner” feature!)
• Assignment Drop box
• Quiz/Survey
• HTML Editor

My chemeketa “Course Tools”

My chemeketa (formerly “Pipeline”) comes with a built-in learning management system. Every course you teach at Chemeketa is automatically given a “Course Tools” area which your students can access via the “My Courses” tab in My Chemeketa. While not as robust as Campus Edition 6.0, My Chemeketa Course Tools is a fine way to add an online component to your campus classes, thus creating a “Web Enhanced” class. Following are a few features of Course Tools:

• Discussion Board
• Email (same as your My Chemeketa email; storage limit applies)
• Announcements
• Link / Photo Manager
• File Manager (file size storage limit)

The downside of using My Chemeketa Course Tools is that there is no way to create a backup of the materials, so every term you will have to build the course again by uploading all the materials. There is also no way to deliver online quizzes/tests and receiving assignments is problematic because My chemeketa email allows only a limited amount of storage space for attachments.

Newterra

Newterra is the name of our web server. You can request an account on Newterra and use it to publish materials to the web. Your website on Newterra would not be integrated with Banner, would not be password protected, and would not have any dynamic tools like discussion boards or assignment drop boxes. It is primarily used for static web pages and, since it is not integrated with Banner, you would need to direct your students there at the beginning of each term. Request a Newterra account here.