Building on what was learned in the Basic Online Teaching Certificate, the Intermediate Online Teaching Certificate is designed to help faculty more effectively support student success while also managing the challenges that can arise while teaching in an online learning environment.
Below you will learn more about how to enroll in these activities and what they involve.
Certificate Requirements
The Intermediate Online Teaching Certificate requires the completion of the following:
- The Providing Feedback for Student Success course
- The Managing Online Learning Environments
- Five credits of elective activities
Read below to learn more about each of the requirements.
The Providing Feedback for Student Success Course
This course focuses on feedback in a broad sense: the communications between instructor and students throughout the course that help students know the course expectations and measure their own progress toward meeting those expectations. We explore some of the principles behind online feedback, then delve into best practices for providing feedback and communication before the course begins, while the course is in progress, and at the end of the course. You will be asked to draw on your prior experiences with online feedback–both positive and negative–as we share ideas and try to put them into practice.
The time commitment for this 2-week asynchronous course is approximately 5-6 hours per week. The course will be facilitated by eCampus Online Faculty Associates. Participants may be eligible for a $250 stipend upon completion.
*Pre-requisite: Completion of the Basic Online Teaching Certificate.
Managing Online Learning Environments Course
Staying on top of teaching in the online learning environment is challenging. It’s easy to lose track of time, fall behind on grading, and neglect (or spend too much time on) “all the things” that contribute to a successful class experience. This course focuses on managing potential issues that can arise in teaching an online course and helps you develop both preventive and responsive strategies that lead to learner success.
The time commitment for this 2-week asynchronous course is approximately 5-6 hours per week. The course will be facilitated by eCampus Online Faculty Associates. Participants may be eligible for a $250 stipend upon completion.
*Pre-requisite: Completion of the Basic Online Teaching Certificate.
Five credits of elective activities
The final requirement for this certificate is to complete five credits of elective activities. Elective activities include the following:
Webinars (1-credit) – These are one-hour live sessions in Zoom facilitated by a variety of faculty associates and experts in specific areas from across campus. Webinars are recorded and participants who attended the session have access to the recording, slidedeck, and additional resources after the sessions via a Canvas site that holds the webinar.
Seminars (2-credits) – These are week-long asynchronous mini-courses that provide participants an opportunity to learn how to improve a specific aspect of their online course and teaching. Seminars challenge participants to apply what they learn to improve one of their online courses. Lessons, resources and activities are accessed through the seminar’s Canvas site.
Communities of Practices (3-credits) – Communities of practice (CoP) allow a small group of faculty to meet every-other week throughout a semester (for about 8 meetings) to discuss a specific area of online teaching. Facilitators and guest speakers provide insightful materials to help center the discussions while faculty share their insights and experiences with each other.
Enrolling, Tracking, and Completing Certificates
To enroll in this certificate, go to the eCampus group page in CampusGroups (be sure to log in) and locate the Join Sub-Groups area at the bottom-right corner of the page. Click the relevant checkbox for this certificate to enroll in it. You can then view the requirements for the certificate (as described above) by clicking on Home, then My Activity, then My Checklists.
You can enroll in currently scheduled offerings for this certificate, as described above, on our eCampus Faculty Development Event page in CampusGroups. Go to the Event Page, locate the required offerings, and click register. Make sure you are logged in to CampusGroups to see all events.
If a required course for the certificate is not listed, that means it has already been offered this semester. You can contact onlinefacultydevelopment@boisestate.edu to learn when the next offering will be. In the meantime, you are encouraged to participate in elective activities to begin working towards the certificate.
After you complete a course or elective activities for a certificate, your progress will be reflected in CampusGroups. You can view your progress by clicking on the Home button in CampusGroups, and then in the main menu selecting My Activity, then My Checklists.
Updates to the progress can take up to one week to be reflected after completing an activity. If you have a question about your progress, please reach out to onlinefacultydevelopment@boisestate.edu.
Once you complete the final activity for a certificate, you will be notified by the eCampus Faculty Development team. You will then receive an email with a certificate of completion as an attachment. Your achievement of the certificate will then be announced in an upcoming eCampus Update Newsletter. Prior to announcing it in the newsletter, you will be offered the opportunity to opt-out of the announcement.
In addition to your achievement being recognized with a certificate and the announcement in the eCampus Update newsletter, your completion of courses and activities will also be reported to Faculty 180, where appropriate, a tool at Boise State for faculty to collect, organize, and display their research, teaching and service data for the purposes of annual reviews, promotion and tenure.
Once you complete the Intermediate Online Teaching Certificate, you will be qualified to continue on to the Advanced Online Teaching Certificate.
Learn more about the Advanced Online Teaching Certificate