Quick Tips: Canvas Calendar and Weighted Grades
In this video, Liz du Plessis responds to instructor requests for help with Canvas following SRJC’s closure due to the fires. She shows... How to use the Canvas calendar to quickly change due dates and how to change availability dates. What happens when you unpublish modules or individual items in Canvas. And how to weight your Grades in…
Tour of an Online Nutrition Course with SRJC's Hannah Saffold
In this video, SRJC instructor Hannah Saffold gives us a tour of her online Elementary Nutrition class, which provides an introduction to the basic principles of nutrition science. In her Canvas course, a prominent feature are the dozens of short videos that she created using Screencast-o-matic.
Tour of a Hybrid Business Course with SRJC's Kim Kinahan
In this video, SRJC instructor Kim Kinahan gives us a tour of her hybrid business course, Marketing Your Skills, which meets on campus 4 times during the semester. She tells us about the students who typically take the course and how she organizes materials and activities in Canvas so that students are ready for the face-to-face meetings. She also…
Tour of Spanish 1 Online with J. Harrington: An Interactionist Approach
In this video, Joseph Harrington gives us a tour of his fully online Spanish 1 class. He also talks about how teaching online allows him to reach more students, about his interactionist approach to teaching, and some of his favorite tools, including ConferZoom for real-time conferencing with students.
Dr. Carlin-Goldberg’s Favorite Digital Resources
In this video, Dr. Jennifer Carlin-Goldberg explains why she and her Math colleagues at SRJC use free e-textbooks in their classes and how she uses Canvas Commons to share her own resources with her department. Instructional Designer Liz du Plessis shows you how to use Commons yourself to import Open Educational Resources and to share your…
Online Readiness Orientation for SRJC Students & Resources for Faculty
In this video, instructional designer Liz du Plessis talks with Michelle Vidaurri of Student Services at SRJC about a new Online Readiness Orientation that prepares students to be successful in online and hybrid classes. And Liz shares an Assignment that faculty can import into their own Canvas courses to encourage students to complete the…
Teaching Tip Video: NetTutor Online Tutoring—Overview for SRJC Faculty
In this video, SRJC instructional designer Liz du Plessis shows the NetTutor online tutoring services available at no cost to all SRJC students and how faculty can integrate NetTutor into Canvas courses. Additional Resources: For a transcript of this video with screenshots of the steps for integrating NetTutor into your Canvas courses…
Teaching Tips Video: Multimedia Tools Guide for SRJC Faculty
In this video, SRJC instructional designer Liz du Plessis shows the Multimedia Tools guide, a set of resources and faculty discussion forums in Canvas that our Distance Education team developed for SRJC instructors who teach online. Topics include video creation tools, web apps enabled in Canvas, video editors Screencast-o-matic and Camtasia, and…
Teaching Tips Video: ABCs of Online Teaching with Loretta Esparza
In this video, SRJC librarian and outgoing Canvas ninja Loretta Esparza shares a resource for faculty that she developed in Canvas called the ABCs of Online Teaching. The resource includes 26 teaching approaches, scholarly journal articles, and examples created by SRJC faculty.
Teaching Tip Video: Discussion Ideas by SRJC Faculty for Online and Hybrid Courses
In this video, several SRJC faculty share how they use the Discussion tool in Canvas for ice-breaker activities, for students to post webcam recordings of themselves as assignments, to build higher-level workplace skills through dialogue, and to collaborate on semester-long group projects.
