Vickie Cook elected to the Board of Directors of the Online Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Consortium

University of Illinois Springfield Vice Chancellor for Enrollment & Retention Management Vickie Cook has been elected to the Board of Directors.

OLC is a collaborative community of higher education leaders and innovators, dedicated to advancing quality digital teaching and learning experiences. It has approximately 800 member institutions.

UIS Quality Assurance

UIS subscribes to Quality Matters (QM) and has adopted a customized version of the research-based QM rubric for quality assurance. COLRS staff who review courses are trained Quality Matters reviewers.

We encourage instructors to use the QM rubric as a design guide when they develop online, blended, or hyflex courses.

Canvas Commons

Canvas Commons is a learning object repository that enables instructors to share content created in Canvas. The content can be entire courses, a page, a module, a quiz, an assignment or a discussion. Content can be shared with only others at UIS or with the entire Canvas community. and how to .

Developing & Sharing Course Content

A gold course is a special type of course site that is used for developing, updating, and sharing content. Gold courses can be used to develop and update course content for a single instructor or with multiple instructors teaching the same course. Gold courses allow content standardization across multiple sections, which may be useful for accreditation and assessment purposes. The content can be copied into course shells for each term.

Canvas for Instructors

is a web-based course management learning system that UIS instructors can use to organize course content. Canvas allows instructors and students 24/7 access to their courses.

A Canvas course site is created for each course section taught at UIS, regardless of modality -- online, blended, hyflex, or on campus. Canvas has an easy-to-navigate interface on the web and via a . There is a separate app for instructors and students.

Online Office Hours

COLRS staff hold open office hours on weekdays that the university is open. We can assist with online, blended, and HyFlex pedagogy, Canvas, multimedia, accessibility concerns, and more!

Multimedia specialist, Scott Moomaw, joins office hours on Tuesdays and Fridays to assist with questions about videos.

Zoom Office Hours

Join the  meeting on weekdays at:

Academic Integrity

Teaching our students to value academic integrity -- to respect others' work and give credit for others' ideas -- is an important part of our work in the classroom. This page contains tips and tools for reducing and detecting violations of our community academic integrity standards.