Welcome, Northwest Vista College Faculty

PRINT VERSION: NVC All Faculty Handbook Fall 2021.pdf

As educators, the faculty of Northwest Vista College facilitate and foster student learning. This is a creative endeavor that is supported by the College’s guiding spirit of our vision, values, and mission. The purpose of this handbook is to assist you, full-time and adjunct faculty, to understand and negotiate all aspects of your employment and responsibilities as faculty for Northwest Vista College and within the Alamo Community College District.

We hope that this handbook will contribute to your healthy relationship with the College and with your students. Many thanks go to everyone who helped in the creation and many revisions of this document, and thanks to everyone else who proofread, made suggestions, and provided information!

Welcome to the NVC family!

Table of Contents

Introduction

Remote Teaching Resources

Just for Adjuncts

Information for All Faculty

Getting Started/Building Your Course

Students

Workplace Environment

Grading

College-Wide Initiatives

Technology

Please click Alphabetical Index to see a list of all pages in this handbook.

Remote Teaching Resources

Visit the Remote Teaching Resources to access a collection of remote teaching resources in Canvas including everything you need to teach remotely (synchronous Zoom classes).

Embrace the Hub!

Visit the NVC Faculty Hub- a "one-stop shop" for the information and resources you need to teach on-campus, hybrid, remote, and online classes.

To access either resource, look at the top of your Canvas dashboard for an invitation to join and click Accept.

Note: Many pages in this handbook reference official sites, college and district pages, government offices, and Alamo Colleges Board Policies. In the event that a site, procedure, statement, or policy is amended, changed, or superseded before the handbook is updated, the official site, page, statement, or policy will always take precedence over the handbook.