Fulfilling the Institutional Mission: Beyond the classroom - Using Tegrity to promote a positive institutional image

Ron Walls, NW Florida State College

• Goals for using Tegrity
• Improve student retention
• Improve Academic Success
• Expand the opportunity for students to learn
• Geography limits access to campus for many.  Needed way to reach out to students at a distance
• Results
• More course completions
• Improved grades
• New opportunities to learn
• Needed to share with the community who they are
• Science Fridays:  Professor gave public lecture on hummingbirds, but wanted to share it with those who couldn't attend
• With law enforcement and fire fighting programs, usingTegrity to become a inter-agency exchange for sharing information between individual public service entities for training, documentation, etc.
• Athletics:  Feature athletics for alumni, donors, etc.  Scouting/recruiting tool.  Training
• Allied Health:  Nursing and dental assistant lab orientation.  New students must view before arriving for classes rather than spending a day doing it in person.
• Nursing:  
• Doctor's orders exercises.  Actual doctors record orders to nurses.  Students get orders randomly, then record responses to be graded/critiqued
• Nurse to patient exercises.  Practice talking to patients/families
• New distance learning student orientation information, then must pass a quiz during first semester
• Faculty bios/course descriptions online, including optional link for faculty to introduce themselves and the course in a 30-second Tegrity recording.  Searchable system back-ended by Banner-like system.