Live Workshop Calendar | Distance Education

The workshops listed below are offered by SRJC's Distance Education, the Online Network of Educators, and by EdTech providers. Topics include:

Various Canvas Features
Effective Online Teaching Practices
EdTech Tools to Enhance Course Interaction
Equity in Online Learning

If you or your department has a need for a workshop on a particular topic, please reach out to Talal Masri (tmasri@santarosa.edu) or Lauren Mitchell (lnahas@santarosa.edu). We'd love to design a workshop to fit your needs!

Review the current list of workshop offerings below and click the "Register" link to sign-up. Once you submit the form, you will receive an email confirmation with a Zoom link.

FLEX code: FF:33 Distance Education Trainings

NOTE: webinars offered by vendors or third-party organizations may reflect attitudes or policies that differ from those at SRJC. The Distance Education staff does not endorse such information, and faculty are asked to verify any statements made by consulting with their department chair or dean.

Workshop	Date & Time	Registration Link
Plug and Play Adoptable Courses This webinar focuses on the new CVC @ONE Plug and Play Adoptable Courses. In this session, you will learn what Plug and Play courses are, how you can adopt one, and which courses are developed or in development. Come learn more about adoptable courses that will serve to assist you in creating an excellent experience for your students! Presenter: Xochitl Tirado, Maria Elena Fernandez, and Ryan Hitch	March 31 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	REGISTER
System Webinar: Direct Assessment Competency-Based Education To better serve California’s diverse learners and prepare them for long-term success, California community colleges are implementing direct assessment competency-based education. This is a flexible, student-centered learning model where students progress by demonstrating mastery of clearly defined skills and knowledge, rather than advancing according to a set term or class schedule. This approach expands access, accelerates completion, and strengthens workforce readiness. Join the System Webinar on April 1 to hear how this approach supports meeting the goals of Vision 2030.	April 1 9:00-10:00 AM	REGISTER
A Template for Disciplinary Reflection in the AI Age Does the rise of AI tools change how we teach? Does it change what we teach? How, in other words, should we think about the discipline-specific skills and knowledge that we share with students in the age of AI? The presentation will describe the experience of one department (English at Saddleback College) reflecting on these questions and will share some of the conclusions we have drawn so far. Most importantly, it will share templates that other disciplines and departments can use to organize their own versions of this conversation.	April 7 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	REGISTER
Fixing Your PDFs with Panorama PDFs can sometimes be difficult to make accessible for your students. Come learn how to use SRJC's accessibility tool, Panorama, to fix the issues with your PDFs and ensure all your students can access them.	April 10 10:00 - 11:00 AM	REGISTER
Building It Together: What’s Shaping the Next CVC Course Design Rubric The CVC Course Design Rubric is being revised, and this webinar offers an overview look at the work behind that effort. Designed for all California community college faculty, this session focuses on how the rubric is being shaped, not a walkthrough of the draft itself. Presenters will share what has been learned through statewide listening sessions, faculty conversations, and the POCR pilot, where reviewers applied draft criteria to real online courses. These activities have surfaced valuable insights about clarity, usability, and how the rubric functions in practice for both course authors and reviewers. Whether you are deeply involved in online course design or just beginning to explore online teaching, this session will help you understand how faculty feedback is influencing the next version of the rubric and what to expect as the work moves toward a public release at the Online Teaching Conference in June 2026. Presenters: Xochitl Tirado, Maria Elena Fernandez, and Liesl Boswell	April 13 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	REGISTER
Beyond Multiple Choice: Elevating Student Assessment with New Quizzes Discover how New Quizzes gives you more powerful tools to assess student learning while actually saving you time. This session focuses on faculty-favorite features, including AI-powered question creation and enhanced support and settings.	April 14 11:00-12:00 PM	REGISTER
Leveraging AI to Scale Universal Design for Learning Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides a proactive framework to design learning environments where accessibility and equity are built in from the start, rather than retrofitted after the fact. But moving from individual classroom practices to institution-wide adoption may feel overwhelming. This webinar explores how artificial intelligence tools can accelerate and sustain the scaling of UDL across colleges and districts. Participants will see how AI can streamline curriculum processes, such as aligning learning objectives, SLOs, assessments, and instructional strategies, while ensuring they remain culturally responsive and inclusive.	April 16 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM	REGISTER
Reclaiming Joy: Human-First Teaching in the AI Era Agentic AI browsers can now submit assignments on behalf of students. For many faculty, this feels like betrayal—exhausting detection work and forced surveillance. This event offers permission, possibility, and community—a space to process your fatigue, learn from colleagues, and discover practices that make teaching feel creative and relational again.	April 17 8:45 - 3:00	REGISTER
Beyond the Screen: Building Connection, Calm, and Community in Virtual Learning Join us for an interactive session that goes beyond traditional academics to nurture the whole student in online learning environments. In this engaging webinar, you'll discover practical, evidence-based strategies to weave social-emotional learning, meditation and mindfulness into your virtual classroom—boosting both student retention and morale. Presenter: Jacqueline Penhos	April 24 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	REGISTER

Workshop

Date & Time

Registration Link

Plug and Play Adoptable Courses

This webinar focuses on the new CVC @ONE Plug and Play Adoptable Courses. In this session, you will learn what Plug and Play courses are, how you can adopt one, and which courses are developed or in development. Come learn more about adoptable courses that will serve to assist you in creating an excellent experience for your students!

Presenter: Xochitl Tirado, Maria Elena Fernandez, and Ryan Hitch

March 31

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

REGISTER

System Webinar: Direct Assessment Competency-Based Education

To better serve California’s diverse learners and prepare them for long-term success, California community colleges are implementing direct assessment competency-based education. This is a flexible, student-centered learning model where students progress by demonstrating mastery of clearly defined skills and knowledge, rather than advancing according to a set term or class schedule. This approach expands access, accelerates completion, and strengthens workforce readiness.
Join the System Webinar on April 1 to hear how this approach supports meeting the goals of Vision 2030.

April 1

9:00-10:00 AM

REGISTER

A Template for Disciplinary Reflection in the AI Age

Does the rise of AI tools change how we teach? Does it change what we teach? How, in other words, should we think about the discipline-specific skills and knowledge that we share with students in the age of AI? The presentation will describe the experience of one department (English at Saddleback College) reflecting on these questions and will share some of the conclusions we have drawn so far. Most importantly, it will share templates that other disciplines and departments can use to organize their own versions of this conversation.

April 7

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

REGISTER

Fixing Your PDFs with Panorama

PDFs can sometimes be difficult to make accessible for your students. Come learn how to use SRJC's accessibility tool, Panorama, to fix the issues with your PDFs and ensure all your students can access them.

April 10

10:00 - 11:00 AM

REGISTER

Building It Together: What’s Shaping the Next CVC Course Design Rubric

The CVC Course Design Rubric is being revised, and this webinar offers an overview look at the work behind that effort. Designed for all California community college faculty, this session focuses on how the rubric is being shaped, not a walkthrough of the draft itself.
Presenters will share what has been learned through statewide listening sessions, faculty conversations, and the POCR pilot, where reviewers applied draft criteria to real online courses. These activities have surfaced valuable insights about clarity, usability, and how the rubric functions in practice for both course authors and reviewers.
Whether you are deeply involved in online course design or just beginning to explore online teaching, this session will help you understand how faculty feedback is influencing the next version of the rubric and what to expect as the work moves toward a public release at the Online Teaching Conference in June 2026.

Presenters: Xochitl Tirado, Maria Elena Fernandez, and Liesl Boswell

April 13

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

REGISTER

Beyond Multiple Choice: Elevating Student Assessment with New Quizzes

Discover how New Quizzes gives you more powerful tools to assess student learning while actually saving you time. This session focuses on faculty-favorite features, including AI-powered question creation and enhanced support and settings.

April 14

11:00-12:00 PM

REGISTER

Leveraging AI to Scale Universal Design for Learning

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides a proactive framework to design learning environments where accessibility and equity are built in from the start, rather than retrofitted after the fact. But moving from individual classroom practices to institution-wide adoption may feel overwhelming. This webinar explores how artificial intelligence tools can accelerate and sustain the scaling of UDL across colleges and districts. Participants will see how AI can streamline curriculum processes, such as aligning learning objectives, SLOs, assessments, and instructional strategies, while ensuring they remain culturally responsive and inclusive.

April 16

11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

REGISTER

Reclaiming Joy: Human-First Teaching in the AI Era

Agentic AI browsers can now submit assignments on behalf of students. For many faculty, this feels like betrayal—exhausting detection work and forced surveillance. This event offers permission, possibility, and community—a space to process your fatigue, learn from colleagues, and discover practices that make teaching feel creative and relational again.

April 17

8:45 - 3:00

REGISTER

Beyond the Screen: Building Connection, Calm, and Community in Virtual Learning

Join us for an interactive session that goes beyond traditional academics to nurture the whole student in online learning environments. In this engaging webinar, you'll discover practical, evidence-based strategies to weave social-emotional learning, meditation and mindfulness into your virtual classroom—boosting both student retention and morale.

Presenter: Jacqueline Penhos

April 24

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

REGISTER