Faculty Course Mentors

Faculty Course Mentors (FCMs) have enhanced privileges in the campus Learning Management System, Moodle. These privileges enable each of them to perform additional functions in Moodle to better serve their colleagues. FCMs are selected based on demonstrated teaching excellence with the Moodle platform, and are assigned to departments/colleges with colleagues within their disciplines or related disciplines. FCM’s are typically COOL-Certified, and oftentimes also noted as Exemplary Faculty Course Awardees. These enhanced privileges enable faculty to perform the following:

Adding other faculty to their own courses to show them activities
Exporting/importing content from your courses or theirs
Assisting with selecting helpful tools for teaching the online space within the Moodle LMS; showing colleagues what these tools look like; pointing them to resources
Assisting with departmental/college resource sites, such as building out content or helping to export/import content, people, etc.
Discussing possible solutions for pedagogical/online problems, such as a 3rd party tool you’ve used that you like (ex: Remind Texting App); submitting any new recommendations to the Moodle/Tool Request Form.
Providing suggestions to COOL on items to add to our Moodle LibGuide, Academic Continuity Site, etc.
Offering support and guidance and referring the faculty member to COOL when you’re unsure how to assist them (or coming to us and asking for guidance so you can assist).

Please see below for identified Faculty Course Mentors

Faculty Course Mentors	Name/Area of Instruction	Areas of Expertise
	Ross Foultz Computing Sciences	Reach out to me for items such as: Building course activities Course design & organization Building content Using web conferencing tools such as Zoom & Teams Open Educational Resouces (OERs) Importing & exporting content Ally - accessibility tool Course set-up Virtualizing the classroom Communication & community building 3rd party tools such as VoiceThread
	Kristal Curry Education	Reach out to me for items such as: Course design & organization Synchronous sessions Developing an online "personality"
	Rajendra Dahal Mathematics & Statistics	Reach out to me for items such as: Course design Creating lecture videos using Camtasia, QuickTime player, Notability, etc.) MyMathLab
	Xinyi Tan Languages and Intercultural Studies	Reach out to me for items such as: Moodle course design Hybrid and blended course design Building content for foreign languages Synchronous instruction with Zoom Creating video lecture with Voicethread
	Sarah Lozier-Laiola English/Digital Culture & Design	Reach out to me for items such as: Course design & organization Creating accessible content Utilizing the Ally accessibility tool
	Jamie Hedges Mathematics & Statistics	Reach out to me for items such as: Remind Text App Establishing an Online Social Presence Utilizing COOL Templates ALT Tags (image descriptions) MyMathLab
	Crystal Cox Computing Sciences	Reach out to me for items such as: Course design & organization Building content Using web conferencing tools such as Teams and Stream Open Educational Resources (OERs)
	Cara Scheuer Management and Decision Sciences	Reach out to me for items such as: Moodle course design Advanced Moodle features (activity completion, advanced Moodle Templates, PoodLL, discussion forums, Moodle books) Student engagement Facilitating virtual meetings Global virtual team projects Tracking student engagement Zoom/Zoom breakout rooms SLACK
	Brett Simpson Chemistry	Reach out to me for items such as: Moodle course design Course layout Moodle Lessons STEM course methodology Creating recorded lectures using Powerpoint & Camtasia Using Zoom, Teams, OneNote
	Siming Guo Physics & Engineering Science	Reach out to me for items such as: STEM digital annotation Moodle course development Video lecture/screencasting
	Matthew Tyler Educational/Instructional Technologist	Reach out to me for items such as: All Moodle Support Office 365 Tools (Teams, OneNote, etc.) Webconferencing Tools (Zoom, Teams) Establishing an online presence Student engagement & community building Transitioning to digital learning Getting your Moodle course set up Online Course Design
	Nadzeya Batson Communication, Media and Culture	Reach out to me for items such as: Developing digital content Developing course structure