Kansas State University

• Tuition for online courses will remain at the current rate, which is the base in-state tuition rate per student credit hour (SCH) for undergraduate and graduate courses. College/departmental non-online fees will also remain at their current rates.
• Global Campus and college/departmental online fees are being suspended. Instead, students will pay a single standard reduced online fee of $70 per student credit hour (SCH).
• With the shift to remote teaching, we have also eliminated fees typically charged to campus-based students, including the Campus Privilege Fee, and the Academic Infrastructure Fee.
• For a full schedule of tuition and fees, please see the spring 2021 web page on the Cashier's website.

The following programs are excluded from the new fall school tuition and fees model:

• Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
• Master of Agribusiness (MAB)
• Master of Psychology with an emphasis in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (MIOP)
• The Community College Leadership Program (Roueche program)
• Professional MBA program
• University Engineering Alliance (UEA)
• AG IDEA programs
• Great Plains IDEA programs
• Contractual Market-Based Education (CMBE) courses

These programs are excluded because they are a professional program, based on a cohort model or are part of a multi-institutional agreement with pre-set tuition and fees.

To assist faculty in transitioning new courses to the online modality, the Online Course Design Institute has been created by a partnership between Global Campus, the Teaching and Learning Center, IT, the Polytechnic Campus, and other university partners.

This institute, which replaces K-State Online Essentials (previously offered to faculty) includes a comprehensive checklist to guide the course design process and is customizable to each instructor’s experience and comfort level.

For more information, continue to explore the Keep Teaching website or contact Katie Linder at kelinder@k-state.edu.

The newly developed Online Course Design Institute will support your efforts in transitioning labs and other experience-based courses online. Instructional designers are also available for one-on-one consultations. Please continue to explore the Keep Teaching website for more information and to schedule an appointment or email gcid@k-state.edu.

Please see this resource on health and safety in the classroom on the K-State COVID-19 website.

Our testing and proctoring centers will have reduced capacity this academic year. To meet student need for accommodations, we need your help to reduce demand for testing and proctoring in-person services by:

• Replacing high-stakes exams with alternative assessments, when possible. There are resources available to assist you in adjusting your assessment measures.
• Administering your exams through Canvas.
• Exploring a remote proctoring solution with the understanding that remote proctoring costs are the responsibility of the department/college. Most colleges are using Examity for remote proctoring, but others have signed up for Respondus’ service. Please contact your department head or associate dean for more information on remote proctoring services available.

We must comply with ADA regulations by providing testing accommodations to students who need them. Encourage students to request these services through the Student Access Center (SAC) in a timely fashion. If the SAC is not able to administer a same-day exam due to limited resources, please be understanding, flexible, and assist the SAC in ensuring students receive accommodations. If you have any questions about the testing and proctoring centers, please contact Jeannie Brown Leonard, brownleonard@k-state.edu.

You can also refer to the Keep Teaching website for alternative assessment resources and virtual sessions on the topic.

Syllabus statements can be found on the Office of the Provost website.

No, the K-State Employee Tuition benefit and the K-State dependent/spouse grant are not impacted.

Courses that were previously approved for online development should continue as planned.

We appreciate that transitioning courses online takes time. However, no extra funding is being made available to compensate faculty specifically for this work, as this effort is in direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Learn more about Fall 2020 enrollment guidance for international students on the ISSS website.

International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) is in communication with the government regarding our campus’ plan. For further questions, have students reach out to their International Student Advisor. Contact information can be found on the ISSS website.

Students enrolled in remote learning for fall 2020 are eligible for federal, state, and institutional financial aid.

Students are encouraged to visit with their financial aid advisor to discuss their situation and eligibility for financial aid.

Students may still be eligible for veteran’s benefits for online classes during the pandemic. Students are encouraged to visit with the Office of Veterans Affairs to discuss their situation and eligibility for benefits.

• Consider using demonstrations instead of live lab activities. Instructors can record themselves completing a lab and share that with their students. The recordings can be done simply (e.g., using a phone with a video camera). Instructors can supplement these demonstrations with voice narration or writing guidance for their students and can design assignments their students can complete demonstrating that they learned the objectives of the demonstration. You can contact Global Campus to learn more about methods for recording demonstrations.
• Videos of labs may be available on social media (e.g., YouTube). Instructors can use these in place of the live experience as well. Quick Google searches on your topic of choice, may help you to find a range of options like this collection of effective biology YouTube channels. When needed, you may be able to adjust or revise your scheduled lab to one available online that covers similar learning objectives.
• Open educational resources (OER) may provide materials and resources that can replace the live lab experience. You can explore OER collections such as MERLOT to find lab-related exercises and materials that may be appropriate for your discipline and course content.
• Reach out to colleagues for advice. Currently, there is a comprehensive spreadsheet circulating that is broken out by discipline that has contributors from all over the world adding in resources for lab-based courses. There is a group in the Keep Teaching online community focused on labs (once in the community join “group” called “Content: LABS”).
• Objectives of the lab course may be modified by instructors as appropriate. Where appropriate, consider shifting the content of your course to focus on other valuable and relevant areas of emphasis, such as science literacy and communication, or lab safety in place of live lab experiences. These videos from the Georgia Tech College of Sciences on lab safety are a great example of what’s available.

• Access to eBook versions of textbooks at no additional charge. Students can visit the campus store website to see if their textbooks are available as eBooks and access them at no additional charge with their .edu email address. They can access up to seven eBooks for the designated period.
• Free access to Lumen Learning OER courseware. Lumen Learning, our campus store’s OER partner, is offering FREE access to courseware to help supplement content and offer additional resources to faculty.
• Additional options are available to students for other needs.

• K-State Libraries can scan chapters from our textbook collection and request chapters from other libraries as well. The ability to fill requests is heavily dependent on the operations of other libraries, many of which are also reducing their operations. To maximize your chance of success, please request only those portions of books that you need.
• To place a request for a chapter of a textbook, use the Interlibrary Loan request form. The library will work to get you a scanned copy either from our collection or another library.

• K-State Library Copyright Resources Website
• K-State Library Copyright Lib Guide

• Limiting access to materials only to students and instructors in a course.
• Using the materials only for the period of time that is necessary under the circumstances, and then
• Removing access to the materials.
• Using only those portions of the materials that are necessary for instruction.

• Exams, in general, can be anxiety-inducing. The change to an online modality will likely have students uneasy. Communicate detailed instructions for the exam upfront (including how many questions, types of questions, etc.) so students feel prepared going in.
• Make your expectations clear to your students about allowable resources. Make clear to your students what resources they may or may not use while working on the exam (e.g., class notes, textbooks) and whether or not they may collaborate with each other. A lot of “academic dishonesty” can be prevented with clear instructions.
• Consider allowing exams to be open-book/source and/or allowing collaboration with other students. Assume students will use resources while taking an exam, and even encourage them to do so. Consider asking questions that probe deeper levels of knowledge and understanding, enabling students to apply, assess, and evaluate concepts and facts in meaningful ways. Consider encouraging students to share and cite where they get information from and what resources they use. Consider encouraging them to work in small teams and asking them to include who they work with and in what ways.
• Use question pools in Canvas so the questions can be randomized. As mentioned above, if students try to collaborate on an exam they are not able to as easily if the questions are populated in random orders.
• Offer flexibility with the timing of your online exam. Students who are learning remotely may need flexibility for when they can take your exam, so consider offering a wider time frame for exam completion. This applies both to the window in which the exam is available as well as how long students have to take the exam.
  • Please remember to add extended time for students with this testing accommodation if you have received a letter of accommodation.
• Limit feedback displayed to students. Instructors can limit what types of feedback are displayed upon completion of a test in Canvas. Providing test scores is important feedback that indicates how well students have performed and should be made available. However, instructors might reconsider whether to include “Let Students See the Correct Answers” as an option to be displayed or not to students. Consider showing answers only after all students have completed the exam. Do remember to allow students to see correct answers at some time so that they may learn from that feedback.
• Consider the possibilities, but also the limitations, of using online testing services. Proctoring services may be costly or unavailable. Browser lockdown programs may not allow for accessibility.
• Consider alternative forms of assessment to exams. The purpose of assessment is to allow students to demonstrate their learning. There may be methods (e.g., written assignments, activities, recorded oral presentations) that allow students to demonstrate their progress toward course learning objectives that circumvent many of the issues that will manifest with online exams.

• If the exam has multiple choice answers, try to avoid “all of the above” answers. Canvas can scramble answer choices. Students don’t see the same answers/same order of answers so if they try to collaborate (using text, etc.) it cannot be done as quickly. Consider using items with only one correct answer.
• When possible, include one or more subjective questions (e.g., short answer, essay). These questions typically draw on higher-order thinking skills and require students to showcase a greater depth of their knowledge.
• Consider focusing on solving problems while showing work and explanations. In many cases, students may get the same answer, but showing their work reveals meaningful differences in understanding. Sometimes there may only be a few ways to show work, so you may ask for brief prose explanations, or have students record a video of them talking through the process to solve a question.
• Consider question formats leading to essays, videos, pictures, and other personal responses. Consider having students express their learning through essays, videos, pictures, or other personalized forms of writing/speaking/communicating. Consider having students post their responses for each other and assess each other’s work through peer grading. Rubrics can help guide students as they develop such work, give each other feedback, and, provide a consistent method of assessment.
• Consider using student-generated questions with explanations: Consider asking students to create their own questions with an explanation of how it would assess a certain topic or skill in a meaningful way.

The Honor and Integrity System is still working to hold students accountable for academic integrity violations. If you suspect there has been a violation, please complete the Violation Report Form or you may email cjroberts@ksu.edu to discuss options.

As with any semester, you may sanction a student up to an XF. This includes a warning, a grade sanction for the assignment/quiz, a grade sanction for the entire course, the Development and Integrity Class, or an XF (or a combination of these sanctions). Please note that a student who is found responsible for an Honor and Integrity violation during the spring 2020 semester will not be able to choose the A/Pass/Fail option for the course of violation.

• Contact the IT Service Desk: Search the Knowledge Base, Submit a Ticket, or Start a Live Chat with basic Canvas questions
• Visit this self-paced Getting Started with Canvas resource
• Attend a Canvas training or view a Canvas training recording on the Keep Teaching training website
• Reach out to a Global Campus instructional designer (gcid@k-state.edu)
• Contact your local college IT staff for more resources and information

• Install and Connect to the GlobalProtect VPN on a Windows computer
• Install GlobalProtect on Android device

• Install and Connect to the GlobalProtect VPN on a Mac
• Install GlobalProtect on iPhones and iPads

• Download and Install the CLI Version of GlobalProtect for Linux
• Download and Install the GUI Version of GlobalProtect for Linux