NOVA’s Academic Affairs Office will be hosting a webinar series for NOVA faculty and staff on several transfer-related topics. Each webinar will be offered twice and recorded for those who cannot join; these recordings will be posted to the Academic Affairs Canvas Site. We will offer these webinars again just before the beginning of the … Continued
NOVA Workforce will be offering a series of “DiscovFREE” webinar sessions intended to provide information for individuals who may seek to gauge their interest in certain fields of business and IT. The sessions will provide an in-depth look into Amazon Web Services (AWS) certifications, CompTIA+ certifications and Python programming. Each engaging session will be led … Continued
The NOVA Financial Aid Office will conduct “Financial Aid 101: The Basics” training for NOVA faculty and staff. The three-day training will be held Wednesdays on May 20 (today), May 27 and June 3 with each day providing new information. Register in advance for one, two or all three days! Day 1, Wed., May 20, … Continued
The 2020 InNOVAtion grant cycle for faculty and staff closes at 4 p.m., Friday, May 22. The application can be found on the NOVA Foundation website (giving.nvcc.edu). Sponsored by the NOVA Foundation, grants of up to $10,000 are available to fund new and innovative ‘One NOVA’ projects and program pilots that are not funded through … Continued
Cyber-attacks and cyber threats are in the news almost constantly. Typically, criminals and foreign hackers find the easiest way into a network is through a careless user who falls for their threats or fake orders, clicks their links, gives them login information, passwords or security codes. DO NOT LET THEM IN. Once any one of … Continued
Spring 2020 courses will not be concluded until December 2020. That means unless you conclude them manually, students will have full access to your course and materials. They can also submit assignments and take quizzes that have not been closed. To prevent that access, please follow the directions here: Closing Courses at the End of … Continued
More than 2,000 students use Tutor.com for online tutoring every term. Even when we were on campus, 68% of tutoring calls were evenings, weekends and holidays when on-campus tutoring was not available. The new 24×7 online-tutoring service from Tutor.com can help your students do better on tests and write better papers. It is free for … Continued
Did you know you always have access to grades for students who have withdrawn or been dropped from your courses? Even though the grades no longer show in your Canvas gradebook, they still exist. Navigate to your Grades tab and hover over the Student Name column. When you see the snowman (three vertical dots), select … Continued
This is National EMS week, May 17- 23. This week we recognize and celebrate the important contributions of EMS practitioners in safeguarding the health, safety and well-being of our communities. NOVA’S Emergency Medical Services Program is the oldest accredited Paramedic program in the Commonwealth of Virginia and one of the oldest in the country, and … Continued
NOVA is pleased to announce that Nicole Tong, an English professor who has been with the college for thirteen years, has been selected as ARTSFAIRFAX’s first ‘Fairfax Poet Laureate.’ Tong, well known for managing NOVA’s ‘Power Up Your Pedagogy’ (PUP) Conference over the last two years also serves as the college coordinator for CETL (Center … Continued
