Getting Started

1. Before starting teaching online

If you are designing, developing, and delivering an online/hybrid course at John Jay College, you are required to fulfill the John Jay requirements: 

  • Demonstrate successful completion of the Online Teaching Essentials: A Foundational Workshop for CUNY Faculty held by the School of Professional Studies or the Hybrid and Online Teaching (HOT) Workshop held by by DOES for which faculty receive a stipend from Academic Affairs.
  • Self-enroll in the Blackboard Basics self-paced workshop . (Click on + Enroll in the menu.)
  • Make sure you have a current John Jay email address.
  • Make sure you can login into John Jay Blackboard & know the basics such as (Constructing course navigation, uploading syllabus and faculty information, creating folders and content items, creating discussion forums, tests and assignments, making the course available/unavailable. Blackboard User Guides and Tutorials

You are  also encouraged to participate in ongoing professional development & Webinars offered by the DEPARTMENT OF ONLINE EDUCATION & SUPPORT (DOES) and the Teaching and Learning Center.

2. Design your online course

Follow the steps on the Course Design and Development page

3. Facilitate your course

See  the Facilitate your course  page

For more information consult the John Jay_Handbook_of Online_Teaching