Online Ed News You Can Use – October 2017
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Adding faculty evaluators, tutors, SI leaders, and community ed students to Canvas classes
You cannot manually enroll users at the student permission level to your Canvas class. If you have any of the following, follow the specified directions to have the user enrolled within your course at the student permission level. Faculty Evaluator: Contact Heidi Willis at (760) 795-6827 or hwillis@miracosta.edu in the Office of Instruction when you need to
Adding faculty evaluators, tutors, SI leaders, and community ed students to Canvas classes
You cannot manually enroll users at the student permission level to your Canvas class. If you have any of the following, follow the specified directions to have the user enrolled within your course at the student permission level. Faculty Evaluator: Contact Heidi Willis at (760) 795-6827 or hwillis@miracosta.edu in the Office of Instruction when you need to
Filtering your Roster List by Role in Canvas People
By default the People tool will display all users enrolled in your Canvas course. You can filter the users by role to obtain the count of users in that role as well as Last Activity and Total Activity. From within a Canvas Course: Click on People Click on All Roles Select the specific role. The
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Student Orientation to Online Learning Information
Each term, Online Education offers multiple 1-hour Student Orientation to Online Learning (SOOL) sessions open to any student. The list of SOOL sessions is available on the TASC Student Workshop site. The SOOL has the following outcomes: Students will learn habits and attitudes of successful online students Students will be able to effectively select and
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Selectively Subscribing to a Canvas Discussion Board
Here is a video, from Dr. Robert Kelley, that covers how faculty can selectively subscribe to a discussion board in Canvas (choosing immediate or daily/weekly summary). The hack is to use a separate student Canvas account, with notifications set up in the student account as desired (immediate or daily/weekly summary). Video: https://youtu.be/21VOacuxjl8 For example, this approach has application for
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MiraCosta Online Ed News You Can Use – Welcome to Fall 2017!
For ALL faculty: Canvas Transition Blackboard and Moodle will no longer be available after spring 2018 – if you haven’t already begun learning Canvas, it’s time! Please see the TIC page on Canvas for lots of great resources. The Transition Team will be offering many Flex week workshops and more 4-week online Canvas training classes this fall
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Add NetTutor to Your Online/Hybrid Canvas Class
MiraCosta’s primary option for free online tutoring for all students is eTutoring through the Western eTutoring Consortium. Another option for our online and hybrid classes is NetTutor, available through MiraCosta’s status as an Online Education Initiative pilot college. NetTutor provides support for just about any academic subject, up to 24×7 for the most popular subject
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Copying into Canvas from Blackboard or Canvas
MiraCosta College has transitioned from Blackboard to Canvas. Starting in summer 2018, Canvas is the sole supported course management system for MiraCosta classes. Canvas to Canvas If you are teaching with Canvas, and/or you have created content within a Canvas course you can copy the entire course or parts of the course into one Canvas course
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Canvas User Profile Names
The first and last name displayed in your Canvas profile is stored in the preferred name field within the Peoplesoft / SURF registration system. Once your preferred name is updated in Peoplesoft / SURF it will update in Canvas during the next scheduled SURF data transfer. To update your first or last name within your
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