QCC COLLEGE NOW
College Now
Instructor Insights
November 2008
Volume 1, Issue 2
In This Issue
•
Blackboard
•
eRoster
•
Withdrawals vs Deletions
•
Orientations
•
Help Needed
•
Science and Engineering Fair
•
Myself Third Scholarship
QCC College Now
Information
Blackboard:
More than Chalk and Talk
The Blackboard is now
up and running and accessible to instructors
and liaisons. Please be
sure to check your
email and the Blackboard site regularly. It
is the main communications vehicle we use
to keep you informed
about College Now at
QCC. Here’s a refresher on logging onto
Blackboard:
To Log onto CUNY
Portal go to www.cuny.
edu
1) Click on LOG IN on
the left-hand side
2) On the right-hand
side, click REGISTER
3) On the New User
Registration Page, click
FACULTY
4) Fill out the required
information and click
next
5) User Validation –
check information and
click CONFIRM
6) If you receive the
following message:One or more fields below did not exactly
match the data we have
in our records. Please
try again.
Contact the College
Now Office 718-6316605 to confirm your information if you continue to receive the message.
7) You will then be
asked to supply a username and choose a password and log in.
8) Once logged in go to
BLACKBOARD
COURSES – in the first
box on the right-hand
side - click.
9) You should see
“College Now” under
My Organizations
Address:
QCC
College Now, Rm. H350
eRoster
222-05 56th Avenue
Bayside, NY 11364
Tel. 718.631.6605
Fax. 718.281.5441
Website:
qcc.cuny.edu/collegenow
All instructors should
be recording attendance
through eRoster. QCC
requires all attendance
to be kept on eRoster.
While the system initially takes some getting used to, in the long
run, it will be a time
saver.
Final Grade Rosters
Before you know it, the
semester will be over and
it will be time to submit
your final grades. Final
grades will be submitted
via eRoster. The tab for
entering final grades will
appear the last week of
the semester. When this
tab appears, faculty can
begin to enter their final
grades. The dates for
grading will be posted
toward the end of the semester.
If you have any questions, please contact
Michelle Holden in the
College Now Office at
718.631.6605.
Help Wanted… or More Precisely… Help Needed
College Now Liaisons
Bayside H.S.
Mr. Macklin
718.229.7600 x1284
Benjamin Cardozo
H.S.
Ms. Garfield
718.279.6500 x406
Francis Lewis H.S.
Ms. Prenner
718.357.7740 x560
Hillcrest H.S.
Mr. Michalos
718.658.5407 x1100
John Bowne H.S.
Mr. Perry
718.263.1919 x1381
Martin Van Buren
H.S.
Ms. Diane Levine
diane.l.levine@gmail.
com
Queens H.S. of
Teaching
Ms. Divjak
718.736.7100
Thomas Edison H.S.
Ms. Diane Levine
diane.l.levine@gmail.
com
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Instructors and Liaisons have
daily access to students at
our partner schools. The
College Now Office needs
your help in promoting all
the offerings of the College
Now programs. Not only do
we need you to engage students about the College Now
classes offered at your
school, but we want you to
get students excited about
the other benefits that come
along with participation in
College Now.
New York City Science and
Engineering Fair
The New York City Science
and Engineering Fair is accepting applications until
January 7, 2009. This Fair,
sponsored by CUNY and the
NYC Department of Education is affiliated with the Intel International Science and
Engineering Fair. For more
information, visit www.
collegenow.cuny.edu/
sciencefair
offerings. While
classes are subject to
change as of this writing, QCC College Now
typically offers theater
and music recording
The Myself Third Schol- studio courses. Students
can take classes at any
arship
of the CUNY campuses
In the spring, College Now offering summer
classes, provided they
will be accepting applications for the Myself Third meet the academic requirements. Did I menScholarship. This scholtion students usually rearship, exclusively for
ceive college credit for
College Now students,
awards 12 $2,500 scholar- these courses and a
Metrocard to get to and
ships for study at CUNY.
But students have to be in from class as well as
daily lunch vouchers?
it to win it!
Summer Programs
For students looking for a
worthwhile way to spend
their summer should
consider the College
Now summer offerings.
While classes are subject
to change as of this writ-
When you are asked to
get the word out about
any of these events,
please do so enthusiastically!
Withdrawals vs. Deletions
There seems to be confusion regarding deletions and withdrawals.
Deletions should be
made if a student registers for a class and
never attends or attends
only the first week of
classes. Students may
also be deleted if they
have a program change
that precludes participation in College Now.
Withdrawals should be
made if the student attends after the first
week of class and then
stops. Withdrawals can
also be made for students whom instructors
determine will not pass
the class. Instructors
should discuss the
withdrawal option with
at-risk students. College Now does not issue “Incompletes” or
“WN.”
Orientations
College Now conducts
orientations on the QCC
campus.. While the tasty
lunch we provide is a big
draw for students, they
also get to sample college
life. Attendees hear from
admissions and tour the
campus with student
guides. This year we introduced a new component to our orientations:
“Applying to College.”
Students get a quick presentation about getting organized about applying to
college—both to public
and private schools.
College Now