Pima Community College offers many of its courses in online and hybrid modalities. There are many resources available to all faculty who teach online and hybrid courses from navigating the Learning Management System (D2L) to proven strategies to increase engagement and enhance student success.

D2L

D2L Brightspace is Pima Community College’s Learning Management System. Learning Management Systems are used to deliver and create course content as well as track and report student progress and grades.

The D2L gradebook is used in all courses to track and report student grades, regardless of teaching modality. Keeping an up-to-date gradebook in D2L is one of the responsibilities of adjunct faculty at Pima.

Additionally, every for-credit course at Pima is required to have its syllabus posted to the D2L course shell via Simple Syllabus.

For more information on  D2L, visit the D2L section under Tools & Platforms in this toolkit.

For more information on Simple Syllabus, visit the Simple Syllabus section under Tools & Platforms in this toolkit.

D2L Essentials

While not required, the D2L Essentials course is highly recommended to get you started using Pima’s D2L Learning Management System. The D2L Essentials course has been designed with Pima faculty in mind and is a comprehensive resource on how to navigate D2L and explanations of common tasks many instructors at Pima will encounter using the system.

D2L Essentials is a fully-online, asynchronous course – meaning the course can be taken beginning at any time and as a self-paced independent study.

Adjunct Faculty are able to register for this course prior to obtaining their MyPima credentials via CourseMerchant. Enroll in D2L Essentials here.

TE125 TEACH Course

To teach a fully-online course, Pima faculty need to attain PCC certification by completing the PimaOnline TE125 TEACH Level Certification course. The purpose of TE125 TEACH course is to provide Pima Community College Faculty members the tools and resources to effectively teach and facilitate a predesigned course using the college’s learning management system D2L. While this course does not certify faculty to build and create their own courses, it does guide and demonstrate for faculty how to enhance and personalize a predesigned course.

TE125 TEACH Course is available 2-4 times a year, depending on demand.

Part-time faculty who successfully complete TE125 TEACH by the specified date will be compensated $500 for this 20-hour course.  Please note that adjunct instructors who are not employed by Pima Community College (i.e. dual-enrollment faculty) are not eligible for this payment. 

For more information and a schedule of current offerings visit the PimaOnline website.

Additional Online Teaching Resources

The Faculty Guide for Online and Web-Enhanced Teaching

This website is designed as a one-stop-shop to support all faculty development needs connected with online pedagogy, instructional design, web-enhanced teaching, D2L Brightspace, and academic technologies.  It is designed and maintained by PimaOnline to address the college-wide needs of our faculty across all modalities.  We also use a parallel design approach ensuring that faculty can easily find and share with their students parallel content at our Student Guide.

TE150 BUILD

The TE150 BUILD course covers an introduction to instructional design. This is an optional, intermediate-level course that builds on the knowledge gained in the TE125 TEACH course. To enroll in this class, participants must first successfully complete TE125 TEACH.

Part-time faculty who successfully complete TE150 BUILD by the specified date will be compensated $500 for this 20-hour course.  Please note that adjunct instructors who are not employed by Pima Community College (i.e. dual-enrollment faculty) are not eligible for this payment. 

For more information and a schedule of current offerings visit the PimaOnline website.

LEAD Courses

Throughout the year, PimaOnline offers a broad variety of intermediate and advanced courses covering a variety of subjects relevant to teaching online, such as course design, HTML, educational videography, and artificial intelligence (AI), . All LEAD offerings are 15-hour, 4-week courses unless otherwise noted.

For more information and a schedule of current offerings visit the PimaOnline website.

Voicemail

If a voicemail account would be  a helpful communication tool, please submit an IT-Telephone Services Request Ticket.

 Note: Supervisor approval may be necessary once the ticket is submitted.