Category: Online Education News You Can Use

Dear MiraCosta Colleagues, 

Some Online Ed reminders and opportunities as you wrap up spring and (perhaps) start thinking about what’s next. Hope to see you at commencement!

Canvas End of Term

After June 6, your spring Canvas classes go into read-only mode for you and your students, and move from the Canvas Dashboard to the Past Enrollments area of Canvas (select Courses at left in Canvas, then All Courses to see Past Enrollment courses). If you wish to remove access to any of your course materials for your current students beyond this semester, you need to do so by June 6. Review our Canvas end-of-term guide for details. It also discusses what you need to do if you have any students who will receive Incomplete grades, as well as what to do if you wish to close course access sooner than June 6. If you’d like help with any semester wrap-up tasks, you can consult with our Instructional Designer, Nadia Khan (click the link to schedule a time). 

Support for Summer/Fall Class Prep 

• Our tic.miracosta.edu has many great resources including workshop recordings, tutorials, examples, and guidelines for online teaching.
• For one-to-one support in your course design and teaching connect with Instructional Designer Nadia Khan – she’s around all summer. Or, if you’re working on classes that are ZTC (Zero Textbook Cost), connect with Instructional Designer Stephanie Kelley.
• For those teaching summer or fall classes that are Zero- or Low-Textbook Cost, please update your course section ZTC/LTC designations in SURF if you haven’t done so yet.

Summer Professional Learning Opportunities

• The Online Teaching Conference is in Anaheim, June 23-25. Contact me if you’re interested in support for your registration.  
• There are some great @ONE online teaching courses – all free, many independent self-paced options and some facilitated.

Happy final finals week!

– Jim

Jim Julius, Ed.D.
Faculty Coordinator, Online Education

Hello, MiraCosta colleagues!

As we near the spring finish line, a couple quick reminders/opportunities. And, further below, some May ASCCC OERI events to consider.

Summer and Fall Classes are in SURF and Canvas

• Course sections assigned to you in SURF for summer and fall now have shells available for you to work with in Canvas (select Courses on the left, then All Courses to see upcoming classes that aren’t yet on your dashboard).
• If any of your fall (or summer) course sections are Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) or Low Textbook Cost (<=$40), you should designate them as such in SURF following directions here, so that the classes will have the appropriate logo in SURF. And don’t forget to inform the bookstore of your course material details, even if you are using zero-cost resources.

Professional Learning Opportunities related to teaching online 

• May 4-6: the free online Peralta Online Equity Conference – register to receive email updates and access to recorded sessions! 
• May 5–14: The free online Perusall Exchange conference, “How to Assess Student Learning in the Age of AI,” includes some great speakers and an opportunity to learn more about the Perusall social annotation tool, which we have available to use in Canvas.
• May 21: The CCC Accessibility Center has a free Annual Workshop with sessions throughout the day. One registration allows you to attend any sessions.
• June 23-25: The CCC Online Teaching Conference is in Anaheim. If you would like support to attend, let me know! Early bird registration ends tomorrow, April 28. Online Ed can cover conference registration but likely not hotel or other travel expenses.
• Summer facilitated and self-paced @ONE online teaching courses are free! (Be sure to click through the catalog to see all your options.) Enroll now in a facilitated class before they fill up!
• July 29-31 The Cal OER conference is online. The call for proposals is open through May 18.

Please let me know how I can help with your online, ZTC, and OER work! 

– Jim Julius
Faculty Coordinator, Online Education