Summer 2022 ISSUE

Published May 2022

Contact CIEL at ciel.educ@ttu.edu for more information

• The CIEL team developed an interactive training module for pre-service teachers’ online teaching

based on our Quality of Online Education framework. This training course will start running in

Summer 2022 in the teacher education program.

K-12 Online

teaching 101

• CIEL created a Digital Literacy Assessment course to meet TEA requirements for the Teacher

Education department. This course tests digital literacy provides resources for Google Educator

Certificate. This course is housed in in TopHat, and it will be available to students in Summer 2022.

Blackboard Support

Community Health Worker

Course Development

Tophat Digital

Literacy

Assessment

Accessibility

Assurance

• The CIEL team created an accessibility assurance plan in 2021. We teamed up with the TTU

eLearning Accessibility team to run reports and fix online course issues to make them accessible.

Our plan is to assist in making all EDUC online courses accessible for our students. This project will

be continuous, so get on our list today!

Course

Development

• We continue to assist in course development for all College of Education courses. The CIEL team

offers design and development services each semester. We also check accessibility during course

development. Get on our list today!

West Texas

AHEC

C&I Graduate

orientation Site

development

EDUC Doctoral

Student Hub

Development

• As one of our long-term external clients, we created online courses for West Texas AHEC education

programs: AHEC Scholars, Community Health Worker and Behavior Health Workforce. We are in the

process of provide design updates and course content improvements.

• CIEL is assisting in designing and developing the Graduate Student Orientation site for the C&I

department.

• CIEL is assisting in designing and developing the EDUC Doctoral Student Hub for the College of

Education website. Along with the design, we are assisting in enhancing their support videos and

ensuring they are accessible with captioning.