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Adjunct faculty should refer to the Collective Bargaining Agreement with regards to funds for course development.
For new courses not currently taught face-to-face, complete and submit Faculty Senate Course Approval Form to the Department Chair, Dean, and Provost. (Academics Committee Forms). Note these funds are for NEW on-line courses only.
If funding for the development of an online course is being sought, complete the Faculty Funding Application (use link above) and submit to the Chair for Approval. The Application will then be forwarded to the Dean and Provost for further approval. Please note that priority will be given to online courses addressing specific departmental or University requirements and/or are associated with online programs. Funding must be supported by the requesting department or program.
Complete the ATS Online Course Proposal Form to initiate the development process. Note that the Provost's Office works with ATS to determine priority for course development, and ATS works with the faculty member to develop the course for online delivery. Under normal circumstances, this process should begin at least one semester before the course is to be offered online for the first time.
Complete ATS Development Process (Example) with the assigned Instructional Designer within one year. The typical timeline to develop a course run 15 weeks to 8 months.
Submit Completed ATS Materials to the Dean's Office for review and approval.
Submit completed, developed course with ATS Materials and Faculty Senate Course Approval Form to the Faculty Senate Academics Committee for review and approval.
If the developed course is approved by the Faculty Senate Academics Committee, submit all materials to the Provost's Office for review and approval. When approved, the Faculty Development Award will be released.
Courses may still be taught experimentally but will not be granted a stipend for development. If the faculty member needs assisstance, priority will be assigned by the Provost and ATS for online development.
Upon approval from the Provost's office, the Developer will be assigned an Instructional Designer to begin working on the course development.
There are 5 steps of development:
For more detailed information regarding the Online Development Timeline click here.
After the course has gone through all of the steps, the course will be copied into the semester shell, and paperwork will be returned to the Provost's office.
Questions? Email ats@arcadia.edu
All support tickets should go through the Help Desk. The Help Desk is open 24/7. If they are unable to assist your inquiry a ticket will be created and assigned to the appropriate individual.
215-572-2898
helpdesk@arcadia.edu
2053 Church Road
215-517-3085
ats@arcadia.edu
Use this form for Canvas requests such as Import Content (Course Copy), Creating a Community, Community Enrollment Removal, Course Retrieval, Cross-List Courses (Combine Course), Creating a Sandbox course, Add and Remove users, ExamSoft, Past Course Viewer, Adding a Guest User, and Increase Course File Size Limit.