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Quick Tips: Canvas Calendar and Weighted Grades

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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 Canvas to maintain alignment with Course Outline of Record requirements for your course. 

 

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Tour of a Hybrid Business Course with SRJC's Kim Kinahan

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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. 

Dr. Carlin-Goldberg’s Favorite Digital Resources

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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.

Online Readiness Orientation for SRJC Students & Resources for Faculty

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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. 

Teaching Tip Video: NetTutor Online Tutoring—Overview for SRJC Faculty

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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.

Teaching Tips Video: Multimedia Tools Guide for SRJC Faculty

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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.

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Teaching Tip Video: Planning an Online Course: Design Tools & Templates

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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.

Teaching Tip Video: What-If Grades for Students in Canvas

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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.

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