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