Course Syllabus
Hello! This page is our RSI Repository, which includes FAQs, examples, and additional resources. Please feel free to use anything here that’s helpful for your courses.
This open-to-anyone repository lives inside our RSI-Focused Recertification Course, which combines SBCC’s required online recertification with practical preparation for RSI-related accreditation review. If you haven’t taken the course yet, we encourage you to sign up!
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Brief overview: accreditation, the ACCJC, and (RSI)
Questions? Please contact the Faculty Distance Education Coordinator at mooneym@sbcc.edu or the Faculty Resource Center (FRC) at frc-group@pipeline.sbcc.edu.
RSI Rubric
RSI Reviewer Guide
- Why create a Reviewer Guide? What's the point?
- Reviewer Guide Template
- Walks you step by step through creating a reviewer guide that can be embedded as an unpublished page at the top of your Modules view, directing reviewers to clear evidence of RSI compliance.
- Example Reviewer Guide
- An illustration of what a completed reviewer guide might look like.
RSI FAQs by Category
- Preparing for Review (Recertification, Accreditation, the ACCJC, and RSI)
- Substantive Interaction
- Substantive Interaction A: Providing Direct Instruction
- Substantive Interaction B: Assessing or Providing Feedback
- Substantive Interaction C: Providing Information
- Substantive Interaction D: Facilitating Group Discussion
- Regular Interaction (Categories A and B)
RSI Examples
- Introduction and Orientation
- Substantive Category A
- Substantive Category B
- Substantive Category C
- Substantive Category D
- Regular Interaction – Category A
- Regular Interaction – Category B
RSI Resources
- RSI Rubric (ACCJC Quality Continuum Rubric for Distance Education)
- ACCJC Protocol for Distance Education Review
- ACCJC Addendum to the Protocol for Distance Education Review
- Distance Education Assessment Tool for Peer Reviewers (Example)
- ACCJC Distance Education Review FAQ (November 2024)
- ACCJC May 2025 Distance Education RSI Webinar Transcript
- Responses to Questions from the May 2025 RSI Webinar
- ACCJC Accreditation Handbook
- RSI-focused webinars from CVC @ONE
- RSI Guide (Tara Carter)
- Recertification FAQs