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Year: 2021

Six Tips for Smooth Sailing in Completing Your SPOT Course

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Guest post by Catherine McKee, Assistant Distance Learning Coordinator at Mt. SAC Sailing through SPOT: Six Tips for Completion Want to get your SPOT course in top shape when you submit? Avoid time-consuming revisions with these suggestions from the Assistant DL Coordinator who manages SPOT!   1. Read every page in the SPOT 2.0 course The…Continue Reading Six Tips for Smooth Sailing in Completing Your SPOT Course

Orienting Your Students to Online Learning

Your course design can orient students to online learning  Even though fall courses have begun, the job of orienting students to learning online takes ongoing effort. Good course design that is easy to navigate can improve student retention and success. Here are some suggestions on how to build orienting elements into your courses. Orienting Students…Continue Reading Orienting Your Students to Online Learning

Welcoming Students Back

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The Class Welcome Message Sending students a welcome message reminds them that the course is beginning and they are enrolled, calms anxieties for some students, opens communication, and prompts others to pay attention to the tasks they need to do to get on track as the term begins. It can also be an important step…Continue Reading Welcoming Students Back

Welcome Back for Fall 2021!

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Hi there Professor! Welcome back for Fall Semester 2021! As you return to campus along with your students this fall, we want to offer you a warm welcome and wishes for a good experience in the upcoming term. Even though campus is reopening, we want to acknowledge that there are still challenges for both our…Continue Reading Welcome Back for Fall 2021!

Fall 2021 Tool Line-Up Take 2 & Workshops!

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Fall term is just around the corner, and we’ve planned several workshops to help you learn new and newish tools in Canvas! The Fall Line-Up New Tools HARMONIZE is an enhanced discussions tool with plagiarism checking, multiple due date options, and more! Sign up for our workshop in POD Connect on Friday Aug 13 10-11am…Continue Reading Fall 2021 Tool Line-Up Take 2 & Workshops!

Canvas Insider: Canvas Release Notes Now Inside Canvas!

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Canvas Insider is a regular blog series from FCLT News Bytes that highlights changes in Canvas and Canvas tools at Mt. SAC. We recently debuted the Canvas Insiderblog post series, and the maiden post mentioned where and how Instructure, Inc. shares release updates to its users about Canvas. The process of finding Canvas updates that…Continue Reading Canvas Insider: Canvas Release Notes Now Inside Canvas!

Rubrics in Canvas: The Why & How

Are you using rubrics in your Canvas course? If so, are you confident that your course rubrics are written effectively? If you answered “No” to either of these questions, this post is a must-read. I will cover both the pedagogical why and how of using course rubrics in Canvas as well as the technical how-to…Continue Reading Rubrics in Canvas: The Why & How

Welcome to Summer Session 2021!

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Hi there! Welcome to Summer Session 2021! Although we are still primarily online, we are beginning to see the restrictions of the pandemic ease and a return to campus is on the horizon! As summer gets underway, we invite you to use our online resources in the Canvas Faculty Center to help you learn about…Continue Reading Welcome to Summer Session 2021!

Canvas Insider: Design Tools by Cidi Labs!

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Canvas Insider is a regular blog series from FCLT News Bytes that highlights changes coming to Canvas and Canvas tools at Mt. SAC. Many of the technology tools you use at Mt. SAC offer software updates and releases. These updates can serve multiple purposes, but the two primary purposes of these updates are to fix…Continue Reading Canvas Insider: Design Tools by Cidi Labs!