Welcome to Fall 2022! Here are just a few helpful resources and reminders to get you started this semester: Ready to Publish your Canvas course? Double check with our Course Prep & Start of Term Checklist. Need Canvas Help? Contact the Canvas 24/7 helpline: 1 (833) 345-2892. Want Instructional Design Help? Book an appointment with the FCLT…Continue Reading News Bytes Weekly | Issue 1
Finals are just around the corner and the Winter Break and New Year are on the horizon. As you wrap up the term, you may want to consider offering students an opportunity to provide feedback about specific or general aspects of their course experience this term. This feedback is not a part of an official…Continue Reading Wrapping up Fall 2021 and Looking Ahead to 2022
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!
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!
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
How Can You Encourage Students to Use Help Resources? As you prepare your materials for spring term, consider how you incorporate student resources and what language you use to encourage help-seeking behavior with your students. Taking steps to support awareness of available student resources is especially useful in the remote teaching format. The FCLT’s surveys…Continue Reading Encouraging Help-Seeking Behavior
In today’s post, I will share time-saving tips, tools, and resources to help you organize and build student-friendly courses for the coming spring term, or any term for that matter. 1. Course Prep & Start-of-Term Checklist The Course Prep & Start-of-Term Checklist in our Canvas Faculty Center walks you through the basics of setting up your…Continue Reading Spring Forward: Four Time-Saving Tips for Spring Course Prep
What to Know for Winter 2021 Courses This week, Mt. SAC’s Winter course shells rolled out in Canvas. Before you start to build your courses, you may want to read this post with the biggest updates and reminders that can help you make the most of your prep time! Cross-list Updates! Crosslist requests are made in the IT…Continue Reading Winter (Semester) is Coming! If You’re Teaching this Winter, You’ll Want to Read This!