Faculty Services
The staff of the Instructional Television Network is striving to make your ITV teaching experience a positive one. Towards that goal, we've assembled some information and tools that can help you teach on ITV.
Teaching a distant learning course brings its own unique set of challenges. If you have not taught a distant learning course before, you might find some of the pedagogy you're used to won't translate well to this environment. So here are some useful tips to help you along the way. For any questions related to using the ITV facility please email us at itvstudio@csub.edu.
General Tips
- ITV Support Staff is available to help you convert your lessons to work with distant learning.
- Please note that Although some in classroom management aid is offered at the Antelope Valley campus, Bakersfield does not offer those services such as printing, material distribution, material collection, and proctoring. Technical support for in classroom equipment and its use is available before and during class.
- If you have not taught in an ITV room before or in a while We reccomend you schedule a training or refresher meeting. Most meetings take about an hour to complete.
- Physical mail takes 2 business days. For more information take a look at our mailing document (docx).
- Course materials are best distributed and collected electronically though services such as Canvas. Materials for Antelope Valley can be emailed to avitv@csub.edu where it will be printed and ready for your students. All copies made your Antelope Valley Students that are emailed will be billed to your department. The Bakersfield ITV office does not offer any printing services. Phyiscal materials production, handlouts, and collection at the Bakersfield site must be handled on your own.
- If you have an idea or concern that can improve your experience, voice it to the technical staff immediately. You never know what we might be able to do.
- Try and use Large Serif fonts on contrasting backgrounds for your presentations. This makes viewing much easier. We reccomend the ADA contrast requirement of 4.5:1. If you want to check your color contrast you can do so at https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
- Encourage your students to interrupt your lectures with comments and questions. When looking for raised hands, the distant site(s) often get over looked and students can become disheartened to your course.
- Courses are recordings are now handled by the use of Zoom though desktop capture to the cloud. Inquire with the ITV staff for more information
CSUB Contact Email: itvstudio@csub.edu
CSUB-AV Contact 661-654-5070. Email: avitv@csub.edu
Using the Campus Courier to/from Antelope Valley
When addressing Antelope Valley mail send it to "AV-ITV" or "Mike Brown." Alternatively, download a copy of our full-page intercampus mailing label to tape to the intercampus envelope below.
Below you will find information on how to send your ITV class materials directly from your department to CSUB Antelope Valley, via the overnight courier service provided by the campus. Your department will not be charged. You can use the listed Drop off locations for next business day pickup or you can use normal intercampus mail. Please allow for one extra business day for delivery when using normal intercampus mail.
- Mailing label from Bakersfield to Antelope Valley tech room
- Mailing Label from Antelope Valley to Bakersfield campus
Courier Service to CSUBAV
Mail must be in drop-off locations by 2:30pm or delivered to Shipping and Receiving no later than 3:30pm, Monday-Friday.
| Building | Location |
|---|---|
| Administration Hall | Outside Human Resources |
| Business Development Center | BDC Offices - Mailroom |
| Dorothy Donahoe Hall | "D" Section |
Antelope Valley will receive mail between 10:30am-12:00pm the next day. To guarantee next day delivery before 12:00pm, send mail 2 business days in advance.
ITV mail received from Antelope Valley will be sent directly to the Office of the Professor or Department Office should the professor not have an office on campus.
Any questions regarding Mail Services (Facilities Management) should be directed to ext. 2296 or ext.2211.
Courier Service to CSUB Main Campus
The best assurance is to bring your packaged materials to the Antelope Valley ITV Tech room. ITV Technical support staff can collect, review and place the materials in outgoing mail to the Bakersfield campus. There is no charge for this service.
Alternatively, properly-addressed materials can be placed in normal CSUB inter-campus mail. Do not use Antelope Valley College inter campus mail.
Exams
- Antelope Valley students cannot buy Scantrons from campus reasources. The Antelope Valley bookstore does not stock them. You will have to purchase and mail those to the AV campus for your students use or provide the Scantron sheet number you intend to use to the students in advance to allow students enough time to order them individually from an outside source.
- Bakersfield Campus does not normally provide or can grantee proctors for your exam, however with notice Antelope Valley does. So if you plan on being in AV during an exam and need a proctor; please contact us or work out an alternative in advance.
- For your final exam, try to design it to be submitted electronically. Delivery of physical materials to your office typically takes 2-3 business days.