Implementing Hybrid Courses

All Hybrid courses must be taught using a Canvas Shell.  The first time the course is created, you should make a blueprint shell that can be shared with other professors. This shell will then be copied to each new faculty teaching the course.

Faculty can adjust and add to their own Canvas course shell to personalize the course to their teaching style and content needs. In the future, the faculty can choose to migrate their own personalized content to their Canvas shells or can ask OCIS to copy the original blueprint shell to their course.  

To start a blueprint Canvas shell, complete an OCIS service form at the Help Desk Self Service Portal. In the form, indicate that you are creating the blueprint for a Hybrid Course and need a shell for it. Indicate the course number. 

Your shell should be thorough, including all reading, multimedia, recorded minilectures, etc.  Build from Part II of your application.  Each week of the course should be built out in the shell, including in-person, synchronous, and asynchronous classes. Assignments should be collected via Canvas, with feedback and grading should be completed in Canvas.  

Student engagement with content, the instruction, and between students should be carefully planned.  Remember to use a range of active learning teaching strategies, such as: 

Scenarios/Case Studies, Exit Tickets, Scaffolded Notes, Shared Readings, Systematic use of Class Discussion in varied group sizes (small/whole group) in person and/or with technology tools such as breakout rooms and discussion boards, Graphic Organizers, Socratic Seminars, interactive quizzes (with Kahoot, Studio, etc.), and Jigsaw activities

Remember to use a range of technology such as: YouTube Videos, Interactive Discussions via discussion boards and breakout rooms, Prerecorded Video lectures/Screencasts, Simulation software, etc.

After your Canvas course shell is complete, contact the CTL to review the shell to review it, for approval and/or potential suggestions. After approval, contact, 

When submitting courses for any semester, indicate if a course is hybrid by using HY in the course section number.  In the section description area, please include details about meeting times and the modes of insturction that will be used (in person, synchronous, and asynchronous). Dates and specifics should be included. This will ensure that students understand what is expected of them. 

If adding a new course, after the bulk list of courses have been sent, send an email to  regme@kean.edu  Indicate course and seciton information as well as hybrid instrucation description details. 

Hybrid courses have an HY  section prefix. 

In the description area of a hybrid course,  faculty include details about meeting times and the modes of instruction that will be used (in-person, synchronous, and asynchronous). This will ensure that students understand what is expected of them. 

Faculty are encouraged to remind students about course modality differences during student advisement sessions.