Online Faculty
Faculty members who are interested in using the college's online Learning Management
System (LMS), Brightspace, can look through these pages to:
Teaching Modalities
At the college, there are six different modalities in which to teach your courses:
traditional, blended, combined online, Real-Time online, HyFlex, and online. The modalities
are defined as follows:
Traditional: All class meetings are on campus, in person. The LMS may be used as a supplement.
Blended/Hybrid Courses: Class meetings are partly on campus and partly online or Real-Time Online.
Combined Online: These courses are 50% asynchronous online and 50% Real-Time Online.
Real Time Online: This modality recreates a classroom experience using live virtual instruction on
scheduled days and times.
HyFlex: Instruction is provided to a cohort of students who are on-campus, in person, while
simultaneously live streaming to a cohort of students who are remote. Dedicated HyFlex
classrooms are utilized for this purpose. At Suffolk, HyFlex courses are sometimes
also referred to as "SufFlex."
Online: instruction is provided by the professor through Brightspace, the college’s LMS.
Students complete assignments working on their own time while adhering to course deadlines.
