About This Website

This website is designed as a one-stop-shop to support all faculty development needs connected with online pedagogy, instructional design, web-enhanced teaching, D2L Brightspace, and academic technologies.  It is designed and maintained by PimaOnline to address the college-wide needs of our faculty across all modalities.  We also use a parallel design approach ensuring that faculty can easily find and share with their students parallel content at our Student Guide.

If you can't quickly find what you're looking for, click on the magnifying glass in the upper right corner and do a global search across our site.  

The Faculty Guide and the PimaOnline Student Guide launched in December 2020, beginning with a migration of tech-focused knowledge base articles (cc.pima). From it's inception, it has transitioned toward pedagogy-guided resources for educators and designers aiming to use D2L, EdTech tools, or other web-enhanced practices to support learning across modalities. Here's an overview of how usage has grown:

• 7200 active users (Last 12 months as of Nov 12, 2024). Our student guide has 18K active users!  This means, combined, our student and faculty guides have 25K active users!

• 7000 active users (Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2023)

• 4500 active users (Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2022)

• 1900 active users (Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2021)  

We value hearing about your user experience (UX) with our website.  We use this information to continuously improve our website.  

If you have feedback you'd like to share (good or bad), content errors or broken links to report, a request for content, or if you'd like to write and share content through our site, please let us know through our Contact Us page. 

Reed Dickson manages this website which is collectively edited by various CLT/PimaOnline staff including Ophelia Holguin (D2L), Adam Baldry and Brad Butler (EdTech), Steven Bayless (Video & Captions), Francisco Reynoso (HTML Templates and Design Choices for Course Homepages), Nina Nardolillo, Jessica Davis, Andre Bernal and Jacqie Allen (Supporting Students, Using PimaConnect to Support Students, PimaConnect Calendar & Appointments), Jessica Richardson (FS&RC), Chelsea James (OER), Angela Hughes (GrackleDocs, Orbitnote, and other accessibility pages), Tomoko Lara (Teaching & Learning Center (TLC), Joe Boehm (AI, IT Faculty Tech Directory) and Maria KayKay (D2L Brightspace).  It has also been previously edited by intern Alexis Martinez Ahumada and other staff.

Embedded Google Docs.  Live Google Documents are co-edited by various staff and faculty on a variety of pages including: Zoom guidance (John Delgado), D2L Release Note samples (Kristina Kuykendall), and our Student Resource Supplement: Tutoring  (Colin Sullivan) and others. Abby Borbon is leading our initiative to infuse ScreenSteps into this guide. 

Version 3.0 of The Faculty Guide (formerly referred to as the PimaOnline Faculty Guide) is organized to ensure easy access to high-demand, priority resouces connected with online teaching practice, online courses for faculty, edtech resources, D2L support, PimaOnline Educator Conference (POEC) information, and Help.