In this video, Liz du Plessis responds to instructor requests for help with Canvas following SRJC’s closure due to the fires. She shows...
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 shows dynamic content she created using easy multimedia tools.
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 own resources with others.
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 orientation.
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 as well as a link to YouTube instructional videos for students, go to the NetTutor page in our Teaching Tips video archive.
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 examples created by SRJC faculty.
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.
In this timely video, the Instructional Designer in Distance Education shows you unit and lesson planning tools for designing a course for online delivery. And she shares a checklist of effective practices for design and implementation of online courses based on nationally recognized standards. Let’s get started.
In this video, the Instructional Designer in Distance Education shows you how students can input hypothetical or What-If grades for themselves in Canvas so they can gauge how they’re doing in your course. Topics also include how instructors can apply weights, rules, and course grading schemes to Total Grade calculations for a course in Canvas.
In this video, faculty member Dr. George Sellu shares rubrics he uses at SRJC. And, I’ll show you how to create your own rubrics in Canvas and use them for scoring student work in Speedgrader.
