8 Habits/Skills for Online Course Success

Strategies for Success Online

Produced by the CBU Center for Digital Instruction

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You may have to log into Canvas to access some resources. Just sign into Canvas with your CBU email and password.

If you receive a Canvas error, follow these directions. If you are using your mobile device and encounter an error signing into Canvas, click here.

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Online Technology

Buying a computer or want to know if your computer is ready for online learning? What about webcams, lighting, microphones?

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Canvas Notifications

Canvas has some handy tools that can make online learning better, but you have to configure your notifications first. Click here for the notification guide.

Mobile Apps

What the Canvas mobile app it can do for you and what it can't. Click here to learn how to get it and use it.

Create an all-in-one CBU mobile app with all CBU platforms on your phone! Click here for the simple instructions.

Succeeding Online Video

This 30 minute video by CBU Online Student Success Specialist, Dr. Lurene Kelley, will provide you with some of the best information for doing well in your online course.

If you ever need assistance - reach out to our Online Student Success Specialist at: Lurene.Kelley@cbu.edu (901) 321-4456

CBU Course Formats

When you register for courses at CBU, here is what you can expect:

Traditional (TR) This course is taught in-person in a physical classroom. The class meeting time and classroom will be listed in Banner.
Hybrid (HYB) This course is taught online AND in-person in a physical classroom. Your professor will provide details. Your Hybrid class should have set times and classroom location listed in Banner for in-person meetings.
Online (WEB or OL) This course is taught entirely online. It may be all asynchronous or have some synchronous elements. Your professor will provide those details.

Asynchronous and Synchronous

- Asynchronous: You work on your own schedule according to due dates and assignments provided by your professor in your online Canvas course. Your main forms of communication with your professor will be email, forum discussions and any other means your professor provides. If your course is predominately Asynchronous, the class time will be listed in Banner as "TBA" and there will not be a physical classroom listed. Your professor may provide Synchronous meeting opportunities that are either voluntarily, individually scheduled or class meetings scheduled by a survey of times that best work for students in the class.
- Synchronous: You meet with your professor and/or classmates real time in a web conferencing platform (such as WebEx.) If your class is expected to frequently meet Synchronously online, then a class time will be listed in Banner. You will be expected to meet online as a class for some or every class meeting. Your professor will provide these details. There will be no classroom listed in Banner, because you will not meet in-person.

If you have questions about your class formats, contact Academic Services at: advising@cbu.edu or (901) 321-3578