We will update this page with new communications throughout the semester.
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In challenging times, it’s helpful to distinguish what you can control from what you can’t. In terms of preparing for the fall semester, you can control your curiosity about technology, how you organize your course and how you transition it online.
Exploring Technology with Answers
Available to all faculty, students and staff, Answers is Syracuse University’s knowledge base of technical self-help information. The website’s content focuses on campuswide and school- or college-specific systems and technical services, including how-to instructions, FAQs and more. In addition to the Online Success Toolkit, the Information Technology Support home page is a good place to start exploring. Answers is always evolving to meet the needs of our community, so be sure to check back periodically for updates. Even better, you can configure your Answers profile to get a daily digest of changes. To do so:
- Log in to Answers.syr.edu using your NetID and password if you haven’t already.
- View your email settings.
- Click the “Edit” button and then select “Subscribe to daily updates.”
- Click the “Submit” button.
Organizing Your Course
The good news for your fall courses is that you don’t have to start from scratch. You can take advantage of the Syracuse University-specific Fall 2020 Blackboard course shell. To preview the course shell and decide whether to apply it to your specific course, email help@syr.edu with either Course Name: Syracuse University Course Template – Fall 2020 or Course ID: sutemplate.fall2020 in the subject line.
Transitioning Your Course Online
Once you have developed a clear vision and materials for your course, we recommend working with Blackboard Academic Services as part of our Fall Course Transition Services to build out the first two weeks of your course, which will ease you into the mixed delivery format. Blackboard Academic Services will show you how to upload content, create assignments, build assessments and more. Using this approach, you don’t need to have a semester of content ready—only the course alignment (from syllabus through assessments, assignments and activities) and the first two weeks of materials. Once you have finalized your syllabus and prepared your initial content, contact Blackboard Transition Services using the Course Is Ready for Transition Form.
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We look forward to working with you.
JULY 9, 2020
Four Steps to Jump-Starting Your Fall Course Transition
With the start of the fall semester less than seven weeks away, we wanted to share four steps to getting started with the Fall Course Transition Services available through Syracuse University’s partnership with Blackboard:
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This is not the semester that anyone envisioned. We realize that everyone’s situation is slightly different in terms of family, resources and more. Even so, please remember that you are not alone—we are all in this together. We look forward to helping you make the best of a challenging situation.
March 12, 2020
To support the transition to online course delivery effective at the end of the academic day on Friday, March 13, we will continue to send regular communications to ensure you have the most up-to-date information related to online teaching and learning. If you haven’t already, please bookmark the Academic Continuity Resources toolkit available at at Syracuse.edu/coronavirus/academic-continuity.
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