College Catalog

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