“Welcome!” Adjunct Faculty Orientation ImagineRIT As an RIT adjunct, you’re not just teaching a course, you are joining RIT’s community of teaching & learning excellence.

RIT History & Facts Each Other Key Resources & Systems The goal of orientation is to learn about:

Agenda RIT History & Facts (mixer game) Preparing to RIT (checklist) Three Key Resources – RIT Adjunct Orientation Resource Wiki – Your Department – The Wallace Center Evaluations & Wrap-up

RIT History RIT is privately endowed, coeducational university with nine colleges and institutes emphasizing career education and experiential learning  RIT traces its roots back to 1829, as the Rochester Athenaeum, a reading society  The Athenaeum merged with the Rochester Mechanics Institute (founded 1885) in ’s  Renamed the Rochester Institute of Technology in the 1940s  RIT chosen for site of National Technical Institute for the Deaf 1968  RIT moves to Henrietta campus

RIT Facts 1.CAST, College of Applied Science and Technology 2.CIAS, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences 3.COLA, College of Liberal Arts 4.COS, College of Science 5.GCCIS, B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences 6.KGCOE, Kate Gleason College of Engineering 7.NTID, National Technical Institute for the Deaf 8.SCB, E. Phillip Saunders College of Business 9.CHST, College of Health Science and Technology - New

RIT Facts

Our campus nickname: "Brick City" Our sports mascot: RITchie the tiger We operate on the quarter system -- four 11-week quarters, year round, and we move to a semester system in AY 2013! (All of tonight's information is available in a wiki.)

What is the RIT Adjunct Faculty Wiki? Wikis are collaborative websites that multiple people can view and edit. “RIT Adjunct Faculty Resource Wiki” contains the majority of references used today and more Two ways to use a wiki in Higher Education 1.For Faculty: work together using a wiki to write curriculum and lesson plans for courses, to develop assignments 2.For Students: group assignments in courses

“Preparing to Teach” checklist is located in two places: – Your folders – AFO wiki It contains key tasks & resources: i.e. – accessing the learning management system (myCourses) AFO Checklist

Settling into your Department Some questions are best answered at the department level: – Administrative staff contact information – Ordering textbooks – Syllabus – Department Policies – Classroom Support – Office equipment and supplies – Student-faculty rapport

The Wallace Center Support One number to call: Teaching and Learning Services Reference Librarians myCourses Support Classroom Support

Teaching & Learning Services Instructional Design Consultants are your go-to professionals

Academic Technology

Academic Technology Support Supports faculty use of a wide range of academic technologies in online, blended, and campus courses – myCourses: Course Management System – Adobe Connect: Web conferencing – RIT Wiki: Group-editable websites – iClicker: Student response system What number do you call?

Classroom Support Operates and maintains the audio and video equipment in most academic classrooms and auditoriums on campus Equipment delivery Training on all installed classroom equipment Swipe access for podiums where required What number do you call?

Media Services Captioning-Course media must be captioned. Allow at least one week for processing Classroom capture Adobe Presenter Custom multimedia development

Academic Technology and Media Team

260+ Research Databases 35,000 + electronic journal subscriptions 100,000 + e-books 400,000 print collection Course Reserves, E-Reserves Course specific Library Guides Class/Faculty research instruction Resources -

Meet your Librarian – A librarian for each of RIT’s colleges

The Student Information System  Student Information System(SIS): Official registrar’s records – Class schedule for Fall 2012 – View class rosters for Fall 2012 classes – View waitlist for Fall 2012 classes – students – View personal data summary – Enter and post grades (November 2012) –  Training for Faculty –

FERPA Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 Copyright and Plagiarism – Turnitin feature in myCourses ADA Compliance – Teaching classes with Deaf and Hard of Hearing students--See handout – To request captioning to be added to your media, contact The Wallace Center at Key Compliance Items

Important Dates

Evaluation & Wrap-up