This is a guest post by Faculty Distance Learning Coordinator Carol Impara You’ve been teaching online for a while now. Do you ever wonder if your course is all it could be? If you are teaching a fully online, asynchronous course, Mt. SAC’s Distance Learning program invites you to have your course “quality reviewed” to…Continue Reading Make Your Online Course Exemplary This Year!
Photo by LeeAnn Cline on Unsplash The Presentation This fall, I signed up for CVC and @ONE’s Fall into Humanized Online Teaching: A Pathway to Equity series. The series consists of bi-monthly sessions on Fridays from September to November. The remaining sessions may be taken a la carte with no deadline to register. What’s more, a la…Continue Reading Welcome Home: Course Card & Home Page Tips for Humanizing
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
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
With finals just around the corner, I’d like to shamelessly plug our faculty survey (hehe) and point out two pages in our Canvas Faculty Center with helpful information for ending the current term and starting an upcoming term. You’ve probably noticed the Canvas announcement on your dashboard about our faculty survey. We’d love to know…Continue Reading One Term Ends, Another Begins
Are you teaching an online asynchronous course? Do you want to add a video-based humanizing element to your course? Have you been wanting to try Flip? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this post is for you! What is Flip? In case you haven’t heard of Flip (formerly Flipgrid), it is…Continue Reading Flip It, Flip It Good! Humanize with Flip
SPOT: Frequently Asked Questions This is a guest post from Assistant Distance Learning Coordinator and SPOT Facilitator, Catherine McKee. This post is for the many professors currently working to finish SPOT, otherwise known as Skills and Pedagogy for Online Teaching, the certification required to teach online courses beginning in Fall 2021. FOMAR is no longer…Continue Reading SPOT FAQ
Hosting Zoom Recordings on Platforms We now have quite a collection of video tools that can host Zoom video content. These all involve a few steps but are pretty easy to accomplish. Which one you use may depend on a few factors: which tool you prefer, how you want to manage captions, and what you…Continue Reading Storing and Sharing Zoom Recordings Long-term
Do you record sessions in Zoom that you want to share with your class? Perhaps you are already sharing Zoom recordings, but you are curious if there’s a better or right way to do it, or you just want to know your options. You are in luck! This week’s post describes how to manage…Continue Reading Sharing Zoom Recordings with your Class
This post is from Assistant Distance Learning Coordinator, Catherine McKee Before March 2020, SPOT (Skills and Pedagogy for Online Teaching) was Mt. SAC’s required certification program for faculty teaching online (including hybrid courses). Then COVID hit and the college transitioned to Temporary Remote Instruction (TRI) and allowed non-SPOT-certified faculty to teach online if they completed…Continue Reading Connecting the Dots on SPOT: Prepping to Teach Online in Fall 2021