Communities

The faculty toolkit was designed specifically for faculty at Baylor College of Medicine. The pages contain a variety of informational links, teaching resources, and help material. These pages are a good place to start if you are interested in using technology in your teaching. Each tool has been categorized and annotated with a brief description. Use the links above to go to the category of your interest.

If you have an idea for an item or a tool that you would like to contribute, please let us know and we will try to accommodate your interests. Please note that some items listed have limited access and/or require a VPN to be set up when accessing remotely. This will be noted in the Comments column. Please check our ERC Resources page for additional information about the resources provided by the Education Resource Center.

• To initiate your online course, please fill out and submit the
  Online Course Request Form below.
• To learn more about BECON, please review Teaching with BECON.
• To access a practice course for faculty in BECON, please click on the course below.

NOTE: All fields are required.

Teaching with BECON: Resources provided by Blackboard Inc.©

Recommendations for Best Use of Blackboard
(PDF format): Covers skills needed to navigate a Blackboard course site, hardware requirements, software suggestions, and instructional design basics.

Educational Benefits of Online Learning
(PDF format): Explains the educational advantages that arise when you supplement a course with web-based tools.

Instructional Design Tips
(PDF format): Offers instructional design tips to help you develop an engaging and instructionally sound Blackboard course site.

Basic HTML & Blackboard
(PDF format): Introduces you to some basic HTML codes you can use to add simple formatting to Blackboard documents.

Faculty's Practice Course in BECON
Course ID: FacultyCourse02

The goal of the course is to allow faculty to learn and practice different features of BECON. If you want to access the course as a student, login the course with your username and password. If you want to have faculty privileges to the course, please contact Cathy Montoya (713-798-8519), or Sherry Vafa (713-798-7836) for the faculty username and password for the course.