As of Fall 2025, the College will no longer require face-to-face College Experience instructors to adopt the traditional, costly textbook published by Kendall-Hunt. While this will continue to be the adopted text for instructors wanting to use a traditional textbook, all instructors will be able to adopt an Open Educational Resource (OER) for any section or modality. This is great news for NICC students who will save more than $70 each in College Experience sections that make the switch!

If you teach College Experience and are interested in adopting an OER, we recommend College Success by OpenStax. Click the button below to view the OpenStax text, and email us for help with the adoption. We have full courses and instructor resources such as chapter slides, quiz banks, and more available for whatever level of support you need.

Interested in adopting OER for other courses? We can help with that too! Send us an email!

It's time to give your courses a spring cleaning and get them ready for summer! Click the headings below to learn how to check each item off your to-do list:

☑️ Complete the Basics: Copy courses, move your dates forward, and update announcements.

☑️  Transition Your Videos: Move Panopto videos to the Media Library and re-insert in courses.

☑️ AI-Proof Your Courses: Make strategic design updates to reduce students' unethical AI use.

☑️  Blueprint Your Course: Add your blueprint to your syllabus (due this May!)

Fall course shells have been loaded into Brightspace! Now is a great time to think about making those big updates you never seem to have time for. Your instructional designer can help you do the heavy lifting by generating quiz banks, building lecture notes or slides, brainstorming activities, and more. 

Not sure where to begin? Consider requesting a Quality Course Review to pinpoint areas of your course that need the most attention.