The following procedures are for faculty members that have formally presented a course in front of members of the SAC Online Advisory Committee sometime in the past.

1. Have the chairperson of your department send a memo indicating your plans to develop or modify an online/blended course to the following administrators:

Dean Ruben Flores - Dean of Evening, Weekend, and Distance Education
Helen Torres - Director of Distance Education
Roland Trevino - Internet Course Coordinator
Dawn Elmore-McCrary - Blended Learning Coordinator (if a blended course)

2. Join the sacinet listserve if you are not already a member.

3. Develop or modify an online/blended course. For assistance, visit the Instructional Innovation Center in MLC 716. If you are modifying/developing a blended course, you must participate in a workshop taught by Dawn Elmore-McCrary, if you have not already done so.

4. Be sure the course is being modified/developed to satisfy the SAC Online Advisory Committee requirements. These are the requirements that will be used to review and approve your course.

5. If your course uses WebCT as a platform, you must contact Amita Mahajan at 220-1530. Ask her to open up your WebCT course for review. It is preferred that the course be on the WebCT developmental server, not the production server.

6. Send your course url and a WebCT ID and password (if applicable) to the sacinet listserve at sacinet@alamo.edu, asking your colleagues to review the course. The deadline for submitting your course to the sacinet listserve is:

March 31 (Summer/Fall 2007 Courses)

7. Consider the comments and suggestions provided by your colleagues and make changes to your course that you feel may be necessary or appropriate.

8. Mr. Trevino will review your course within the next few weeks and provide feedback. Your course will either be approved or you may be asked to make changes until all requirements have been satisfied.

9. Fill out the THECB section of the Internet Course Criteria Form, sign and date the last page, and pony it to Mr. Trevino in the mathematics department.

10. Soon after the criteria form has been submitted, an email will be sent to you, Dean Ruben Flores, Helen Torres, and your chair, indicating the approval of your course.