Learning Support for Faculty

If you are a Nashville State instructor seeking online support for NS Online/D2L courses or need assistance with using lecture capture, video conferencing, accessibility issues, or just want to discuss strategies for delivering online courses, please contact the support team at the Office of Online Learning.

Online Learning Supports All Nashville State Faculty

We help all faculty utilizing technology for learning and supported tools.
We provide consultations, training, and professional development opportunities for faculty teaching online, hybrid, virtual, and web-enhanced courses.
We support the development of multimedia content and meeting accessibility standards and quality standards for online learning.

Templates

2025 Syllabus Template (Updated Summer 2025)
Faculty Door Schedule Template
Faculty Door Schedule Instructions (Updated 08/2022)

*Please maintain accessibility guidelines when adapting these templates.

Important Dates for Faculty

Course Maintainers: Prime Course (WEBO, WEBH, WEBG, WEBV) updates for the next semester need to be complete the Wednesday after grades are due. Please plan to update your assigned Prime Courses before the end of the semester.

Faculty Start of Semester Timeline

Online Faculty Handbook (updated Fall 2022)

D2L Resources for Faculty

The Office of Online Learning is dedicated to providing faculty with training, resources, and support so they can confidently and competently instruct in the online environment. As updates to D2L and other supported tools occur we will continue to update our resources for Nashville State. You are also encouraged to review our accessibility resources and support information.

Go to D2L Resources for Faculty

Go to Accessibility Resources

Watermark Survey Access

NSCC has ended our contract with the Watermark survey tool. Institutional Research (IR) has downloaded all previous end-of-term surveys from Watermark. If you need access to historical Watermark survey results, please contact Institutional Research (ir@nscc.edu).

Class Climate Surveys

Nashville State will use Scantron’s Class Climate as the end-of-term online survey tool beginning Fall of 2025. The departments of TSD, IR, and Online Learning (OOL) are working together to onboard this product and the goal is to provide a familiar survey experience for both students and instructors, but with improved ease of use and better functionality.

Faculty Guides Coming Soon!

Survey Resources

Standard Survey Questions

Doc: Custom Questions Added by Faculty

LTI Integration Process for D2L

The Office of Online Learning (OOL) has implemented a Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) approval process for the addition of all external tool integrations into D2L. The approval process for each tool will include a review of Functionality, Accessibility, Security, Compliance with University policies, Cost, and other factors. Faculty should consult OOL before considering an LTI integration when working with vendors. Be advised the review process could take several weeks. Please verify the request is not supplied by our existing vendors (Edit Course > External Learning Tools).

A Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) is an external piece of software that can be plugged into the learning management system (D2L) to extend its functionality.

Each LTI has a different license agreement and different access to data from D2L which involves a review process.
Full-time Faculty or Division Deans will have to submit the request form to OOL.
Vendors will have to provide information on licensing, accessibility, privacy, security, cost, etc...
Submission deadlines will be eight weeks prior to the start of the semester to allow time for approvals.
- Fall Semester Deadline: June 1
- Spring Semester Deadline: November 1
- Summer Semester Deadline: March 1
Production installation is three times a year - targeted one week prior to the start of the semester (Fall, Spring, start of Summer).

When an LTI Request is submitted, OOL will:

Review the request and may contact you for additional information, suggestions for alternatives, or issues with the request,
Approve/deny the request for Procurement processing.

For requests that do not fall into this category, or if you are uncertain, please submit your request to online.learning@nscc.edu.

D2L EXTERNAL LTI APPLICATION REQUEST FORM