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The Coastal Online Blog provides Faculty & Staff with up-to-date information and tools relevant to Online Learning.
Department Newsletters & News
Click the accordions below for COOL Newsletters and up to date news articles sorted by the year in which they were released.
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2019 News
4/30/2019
Thursday, May 16, 2019 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Be sure to follow us on social media to learn about some great accessibility tips for your online and hybrid courses.
3/27/20192019 Moodle Enrollments
Wondering when your students will be enrolled into your Moodle course for upcoming semesters? Student enrollments will take place on the following dates for the following semesters: Maymester Enrollment, May 8; Summer II Enrollment, June 6; Summer II Enrollment, July 11.
3/27/2019
Ally is Coming to Campus!
Ally will be coming to campus on April 8th and 9th to provide faculty, staff, and students information about the Ally tool. They will be on campus April 8th at 10 a.m. in Prince 209 to host a 90 minutes presentation for faculty and staff on the tool's functionality. They will also be hosting a Podcast from 11:45-1230 in Kearns 107 B. Ally will then return the following day, April 9th, to meet with students from 11:00-1:00 in LIBSU.
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2018 News
8/17/2018
Respondus LockDown Browser
Free Webinars! Respondus is offering two great webinars that will include comprehensive training for instructors on how to use LockDown Browser. Sign Up Now!
8/16/2018
Moodle Maintenance
CCU's Learning Management System (LMS), Moodle, will have a mandatory performance maintenance on Friday, 08/17/18 between 6:00 a.m. - 7:00 a.m. EST. The system may be unavailable during this time.
8/6/2018
Moodle Upgrade!
The Coastal Office of Online Learning is pleased to announced that Moodle will be upgraded to version 3.2.9 on Tuesday, August 7, 2018. The upgrade will provide several exciting enhancements and functionalities for students, faculty, and staff. Please see the Moodle Resources page for more deatails!
5/16/2018
CCU Ally Pilot Study
Beginning Summer 2018, COOL will be hosting a Pilot Group to learn and use our newest digital accessibility tool, Ally. If you are interested in serving in our pilot group for the Summer or Fall 2018 terms, please complete all required fields in the form below.
CCU Ally Pilot Group Sign Up form
New online lecture capture training workshop coming in 2018!
The Personal Lecture Capture for Online/Hybrid Classes is currently under development and will launch in February 2018. This new workshop covers the basics of personal lecture capture, from installation and usage of the software to examples of best practices in recording multimedia for online and hybrid courses. For information on to register for this workshop, please visit the CeTEAL registration website.
1/17/2018
The Coastal Office of Online Learning is proud to sponsor Coastal Carolina University's membership to the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). As a member of OLC, all CCU faculty and staff can now take advantage of great benefits and privileges. Our membership allows access to a number of free webinars and panel discussions on online higher education topics. There are also significant opportunities for peer networking with an international community of online learning educators, and early access to research and trends in online learning. Both faculty and staff are encouraged to take advantage of all materials and opportunities available to assist with course enhancement, best practices, and innovations for online teaching. For more information, visit the OLC Member Resources Page.
3/6/2018
CCU Affordable Learning Resource Guide
Check out the new resource guide on affordable learning for faculty and students!
3/9/2018
Coastal Carolina University named only S.C. institution on list of most affordable military friendly online colleges for 2018!
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2017 News
01/03/2017 Accessibility & Universal Design Lab; Captioning Initiative Launch Coming Soon
The COOL department is pleased to announce the upcoming availability of captioning for multimedia (audio and video) as a service to faculty members teaching online, hybrid, and flex classes. More information will be provided soon. Faculty who have current courses for the SP17 and upcoming SUM17/FAL terms with relevant content and would like to add your name to the list for captioning may complete this form to be added to the alert list once this service goes live. We have a related UDI & Accessibility Workshop now offered that faculty are also encouraged to sign up for.2/6/2017 Best Practices for Accessible Instructional Videos
Thursday, February 23rd at 2pm, 3PlayMedia is hosting a FREE webinar on Best Practices for Accessible Instructional Videos. Click to register!
3/3/2017 Captioning Initiative for Online & Hybrid Courses
The Office of Online Learning is now providing FREE captioning services that allow your multimedia files to have captions added to your files. The process for submitting the files needing captioning is quite simply. Follow the steps below to start the process in making your multimedia files accessible to students.
1. Complete and submit the Google Form
2. COOL (Coastal Office of Online Learning) will follow up with you directly to obtain your multimedia files and to begin the captioning process.
5/9/2017 Global Accessibility Awareness Day
To mark the sixth Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Blackboard is promoting a free follow-the-sun series of webinars covering trending topics on digital access in education. Join Blackboard on Thursday, May 18th 2017, to discuss accessibility in Education, learn from your peers and share your ideas. For a list of free webinars being offered and to register, click here!
5/9/2017 Course Enhancement Grant
The Coastal Office of Online Learning (COOL) is pleased to announce the 1st round of the COOL Online Course Enhancement Grant (CEG) program to enhance the development of high quality online courses and programs for graduate and undergraduate students. This specific grant focuses on applying enhancements and updates to previously developed online courses, both those that have or have not undergone review under the COOL Course Development Programs.
9/21/17 Exemplary Showcase
COOL is pleased to announce the 2017 Exemplary Course Design Faculty Showcase: Tuesday, November 7th, 2017 from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts building, Room 249. click here!
10/17/17 Coastal recognized as a top choice in Masters in Education programs
Coastal Carolina University's online master's degree in Education is ranked in the top 50 of programs in the U.S. based on a review of schools across the nation by AffordableColleges.com. CCU's online program stood out in both quality and affordability.
3/10/2017 CCU Offers One of Top 3 Online Programs in SC
Coastal Carolina University has been named one of the Best Online Colleges in South Carolina for 2016-2017 by Affordable Colleges Online (ACO), a resource for online learning and college affordability information.