Due to federal financial aid eligibility for students, UIS instructors must engage in regular and substantive interaction with students in online courses. The definition of distance education from the U.S. Congress and guidance on regular and substantive interaction from the U.S. Department of Education are general and discussed in detail below.
A GOLD course is a special type of course site that is used for developing, updating, and sharing content. GOLD courses can be used to develop and update course content for a single instructor or with multiple instructors teaching the same course. GOLD courses allow content standardization across multiple sections, which may be useful for accreditation and assessment purposes. The content can be copied into course shells for each term.
Canvas is a web-based course management learning system that UIS instructors can use to organize course content. Canvas allows faculty members 24/7 access to their course for instructional updates and design. A Canvas course site is created for each course section taught at UIS, regardless of modality -- online, blended, hyflex, or on campus.
Download the UIS Examity Quick Guide for Students.
You can access Examity® through your course on Canvas. Click on the Examity link within the course.
Click to log in to Examity.
This will take you to your Examity dashboard.
COLRS staff hold open office hours on weekdays that the university is open. We can assist with online, blended, and HyFlex pedagogy, Canvas, multimedia, accessibility concerns, and more!
Join the COLRS Office Hours Zoom meeting at:
December 12, 2022 to January 6, 2023.
Canvas as a platform is accessible to assistive technology users, but the content created within Canvas is not inherently accessible. Being web-based, Canvas content follows the same accessibility considerations as detailed on the Accessible Documents and Websites page. Canvas pages within a course should be checked for accessibility compliance with the built-in checker when creating content, or with UDOIT to evaluate the whole course.
Listed below are the test proctoring locations and fees for residents of an Illinois community college district who are enrolled online at a different institution.
Teaching our students to value academic integrity -- to respect others' work and give credit for others' ideas -- is an important part of our work in the classroom. This page contains tips and tools for reducing and detecting violations of our community academic integrity standards.
Setting up your fall course and have questions? Need a little (or a lot) of help? Miss your COLRS people and want to chat?
Then this session is for you!
Join Zoom for the workshop (must be logged into your UIS Zoom account to access this meeting)
