UFS Spring 2020 Survey of CUNY Online Transition and Faculty Needs

Colleagues:
The decisions to place all CUNY instruction online, and then to halt it and restart it, were made without any faculty involvement in the Task Force advising the Chancellor. The majority of the faculty and students were un-prepared for the transition that created stress, confusion, and instructional challenges. As the upcoming summer semester is going to be done in online mode (and decisions for Fall 2020 will be made soon), the UFS Academic Affairs Committee wishes to help faculty get support they need for the summer and fall semesters, in order to teach more effectively online, and manage the needs of students in online environments.
The UFS has designed this survey in order to understand faculty needs, and then, to reach out to the Chancellery in order to share CUNY faculty needs and collaborate more closely on achieving them.
Please respond to this survey as soon as possible, so that the Academic Affairs Committee of the UFS can gather the necessary information.

Thank you for your participation! It will help many faculty and students!
UFS/ Academic Affairs Committee
 

Carlos Guevara , Director, Educational Technology and Center for Teaching and Learning, Hostos Community College has used Tableau and produced some charts to help visualize the results from this data.
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UFS Spring 2020 Survey of CUNY Online Transition and Faculty Needs

1663 responses  Average time to complete: 22 minutes and 5 seconds  The form status is Closed

   1. What is your main CUNY campus?

2.     2. Did you teach online before the NY State Pause halted instruction on CUNY campuses?

 3.     In your view, how well prepared were you for teaching a fully online course when CUNY went all online?

4.  Given the initiatives by CUNY/Your College: How well prepared do you feel now to teach a fully online class?

 5.  How much contact have you had from your unit coordinator, department chair, and/or provost regarding the transition to online teaching and the continuity of college business otherwise?

6.  List the supports that worked well this semester that you would like to see continue: 1349  Responses

7.  List additional supports/training that you need now in order to be more effective in teaching fully online class? 1276  Responses

8.  Do you find you can use /share teaching materials and examples from similar courses that were shared/made available?

9.  Please explain your answer to number 8.  1328  Responses

10.  Are there any CUNY online faculty support groups for distance learning that you find useful? If so, please list them here:  879  Responses

11.  Are there any specific supports you use or technologies to manage and to teach multilingual students and special needs students?  952 Responses

12.  What online video conferencing platform do you principally use with your online classes?

13. What is your preferred platform?

14. What technologies /training/other supports will you need for Summer /Fall 2020 that you do not already have or know you will have?  1067  Responses

 15.  What technology will your students need?

  16. What OUT-OF-CLASS supports will your students need?

17. What comments do you wish to make about the transition to fully online in Spring 2020? The Recalibration in Spring 2020? Any other aspect of the CUNY transition to online? 1224  Responses

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You may Contact: Lubie Alatriste of CUNY New York City Technical College,  LAlatriste@citytech.cuny.edu

You may Contact:: Philip Pecorino of CUNY Queensborough Community College, ppecorino@qcc.cuny.edu