This Friday the C3 Teaching & Learning Center and Online Education welcome you to a full day of celebrating, cultivating, and connecting around our commitment to equity-minded online education. This year has been incredibly challenging in so many ways, but our instructional practices have also advanced under those challenges, and this day is intended to both recognize the efforts of our community and to inspire and inform our ongoing work.
MiraCosta College Canvas now supports an LTI integration with Microsoft Office 365 in Assignments, Collaborations, Modules, Course Navigation, and the Rich Content Editor. This integration allows students and instructors to use, create, share, and collaborate on Office 365 files within Canvas. Users can also view their OneDrive files directly in Canvas.
Enable the Office 365 Integration in Canvas
Enter your Canvas course
Click Settings on the course menu
Click the Navigation tab
Click the 3 dots to the right ofOffice 365 and select Enable.
Click the Save button
Log on to Office 365 as a Faculty / Staff Member
Click the Office 365 course menu item which will appear in your course menu.
Click the Log In button.
Enter your Faculty / Staff MCC email address
Example: kturpin@miracosta.edu
Click the Next button
Click the Accept button on the Permissions requested page. Note: This page will only display the first time you log on to the Office 365 Integration in Canvas.
Now you can access Office 365 documents from inside of Canvas.
Students log on to Office 365 with their MiraCosta Student Email Address They may also use their SURF ID + “@student.miracosta.edu“ Example: W71234567@student.miracosta.edu
In this episode of the SAFE Topics Podcast, the team goes into the topic of anonymity in the classroom. Join hosts Sean, curry, and Mana along with our special guests, Tyrone Nagai (Letters and Pre-Transfer), Krista Byrd (Psychology), and David Bonds (Mathematics) as they get into the topic of having cameras on vs. having cameras off! Listen in!
Having cameras on in-class versus one-on-one office hours.
“Just because you see their face doesn’t mean they’re paying attention.”
Is the “camera on student” also the “sit in the front student.”
The advantages of a live session.
Sometimes having cameras on is more of a distraction.
What’s happening from the psychological perspective?
It’s the students that aren’t showing up that are cause for concern.
“Zoom fatigue.”
Students are multitasking a lot of the time in a synchronous class.
Cameras on and cameras off as an equity issue.
Students are lacking friendships, connections, and networks.
Forcing cameras can be a tech issue.
Reminding ourselves that flexibility is important.
What situations call for cameras to be on?
The implications of student success rates during this time.
What does participation and engagement mean to you?
Useful Links
“Why students do not turn on their video cameras during online classes and an equitable and inclusive plan to encourage them to do so.” Frank R. Castelli and Mark A. Sarvary (2021). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.7123
curry mitchell – Faculty, Letters (Co-host) Sean Davis – Faculty, Sociology (Co-host) Mana Tadayon – Student, ASG President (Co-host) Kelly Barnett – Intern and Music Technology Student (Audio Editor) James Garcia – Associate Faculty, Sociology (Show Notes, Online)
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I am proud to be a member of the Asian and Pacific Islander Community and in solidarity with our sisters during this moment of grief and pain.
3 resources related to teaching and learning, 2 online tips and tricks, and 1 question for reflection
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This resource was sent to me by Chad Tsuyuki (Letters). Thank you, Chad. You always have excellent recommendations. Sacramento State University is organizing this series with several prominent leaders in education, and it is available free for all. The talks are being recorded, and some have already been archived on their website. This series is a year-long effort with a full slate of speakers this spring and fall.
Our Web Services & Emerging Technologies Librarian, Lauren McFall, has organized an interdisciplinary faculty lineup to present intriguing and timely topics this Spring.
Misinformation is an old problem, but technology has manifested that problem in new ways. In response to recent events over the last year, the MiraCosta College Library, in collaboration with faculty across many disciplines, hosts a series of misinformation forums to discuss these issues and help promote information literacy. Students, Staff, Faculty, and Administration alike are welcome to join the discussion.
Peer faculty mentors are great for specific questions on online teaching strategies, tools, and other kinds of professional advice and support to help you serve students effectively while staying healthy and sane.
Our Instructional Designer can provide more extensive support such as thorough course design feedback and assistance, making course materials fully accessible, reviewing and adopting Open Educational Resource course material, and more.
Did you know you can add rubrics to quizzes in Canvas? I did not. You can’t use the rubrics to grade quizzes (I am not sure how that would work anyway). However, you can use rubrics to clarify expectations for quizzes and give students a bit more guidance before they take an assessment.
If you are into backward design and ensuring students meet expectations for your student learning outcomes, this feature will be a powerful tool for you. It is especially helpful when it is time to measure SLOs at the departmental level. Using this tool will help track mastery of content in your classes.
(1) Question
How can we care for those suffering right now and still preserve ourselves for the long road ahead?
(Try to) Stay joyful,
Sean Davis Joyful Teacher in Residence Coordinator, C3 Teaching and Learning Center
In this week’s episode, hosts Sean and curry introduce and welcome Mana Tadayon, the SAFE Topics’ newest co-host! Mana first joined us as a guest on the One Word Conversation episode with students on “Leaders” (S2E3). In today’s release, we welcome Mana as a part of the team and we can’t be excited enough! Listen in and join us in welcoming Mana!!
What is it about community college that keeps you coming back for more?
The immediacy of impact on the campus community.
Every single class has a new set of people and that’s amazing.
There is agency and autonomy in the work we do – is it the same for students?
What’s missing or makes community college harder?
Canvas and the “to-do” list.
Having passion and the energy to get through bad things.
The trap of “we did it, so we can do it.”
Teachers still come in nervous and with imposter syndrome.
To care or not to care.
What does community college promise to students and to teachers?
What does the Associated Student Government promise students?
The S.A.F.E. Topics Team
curry mitchell – Faculty, Letters (Co-host) Sean Davis – Faculty, Sociology (Co-host) Mana Tadayon – Student, ASG President (Co-host) Kelly Barnett – Intern and Music Technology Student (Audio Editor) James Garcia – Associate Faculty, Sociology (Show Notes, Online)
