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
- Reviewer Guide Template Links to an external site.
- Walks you step by step through creating a reviewer guide that can be embedded as an unpublished page at the top of your Modules view, directing reviewers to clear evidence of RSI compliance.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 Links to an external site.
- An illustration of what a completed reviewer guide might look like.
RSI FAQs by Category
- Preparing for Review (Recertification, Accreditation, the ACCJC, and RSI) Links to an external site.
- Substantive Interaction Links to an external site.
- Substantive Interaction A: Providing Direct Instruction Links to an external site.
- Substantive Interaction B: Assessing or Providing Feedback Links to an external site.
- Substantive Interaction C: Providing Information Links to an external site.
- Substantive Interaction D: Facilitating Group Discussion Links to an external site.
- Regular Interaction (Categories A and B) Links to an external site.
RSI Examples
- Introduction and Orientation Links to an external site.
- Substantive Category A Links to an external site.
- Substantive Category B Links to an external site.
- Substantive Category C Links to an external site.
- Substantive Category D Links to an external site.
- Regular Interaction – Category A Links to an external site.
- Regular Interaction – Category B Links to an external site.
RSI Resources
- RSI Rubric (ACCJC Quality Continuum Rubric for Distance Education) Links to an external site.
- ACCJC Protocol for Distance Education Review Links to an external site.
- ACCJC Addendum to the Protocol for Distance Education Review Links to an external site.
- Distance Education Assessment Tool for Peer Reviewers (Example) Links to an external site.
- ACCJC Distance Education Review FAQ (November 2024) Links to an external site.
- ACCJC May 2025 Distance Education RSI Webinar Transcript Links to an external site.
- Responses to Questions from the May 2025 RSI Webinar Links to an external site.
- ACCJC Accreditation Handbook Links to an external site.
- RSI-focused webinars from CVC @ONE
- RSI Guide (Tara Carter) Links to an external site.
