Course Instructional Mode

Students can take SUNY Adirondack courses in a variety of course instructional modes, ranging from traditional in-person classes to fully online courses, and options in-between.  Students should plan to attend class the very first day of the semester, regardless of mode.  Students should plan to work a minimum of 9-12 hours a week for each 3-credit course.  Courses that have online options will require a significant amount of writing, using course communications tool built into the web-based learning management system.

The following chart provides the framework for the three standard types of instructional mode:

 
Course Section Formats Campus Code Campus Common Description Place/Time Distribution
Traditional TR

Queensbury
Saratoga

fully in-person on a campus Traditional
100% physical location,
100% day/time
Online ON On-line fully online course content Asynchronous
100% online
0% day/time
Remote Synchronous RS Virtual fully in-person through Zoom, WebEx or similar Synchronous
0% physical location
100% day/time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The college also provides variations of the standard types:

Course Section Formats Campus Code Campus Common Description Place/Time Distribution
Hybrid HY Queensbury
Saratoga
half in-person on a campus and half online

Traditional/Asynchronous
≥ 50% physical location,
100% day/time
50% online instruction

Remote Online RO Virtual half through Zoom, (WebEx or similar) and half online Synchronous/Asynchronous
≥ 50% physical location,
≥ 50% day/time
50% online instruction
Flexible FL Queensbury
Saratoga
students attend lecture in-person, or through Zoom (WebEx or similar) or listen to the recorded lecture at another time to learn course content

Traditional/Synchronous/Asynchronous
Any % location, based on student choice

Flexible Synchronous FS Queensbury
Saratoga
students attend lecture in-person or through Zoom (WebEx or similar) Traditional/Synchronous
Any % location, student choice limited to traditional and remote synchronous

 

 

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