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  • Online Ed News You Can Use – April 2025

    Online Ed News You Can Use – April 2025

    I hope you have a chance to enjoy spring 🦋🌼🐝 in the beautiful world around us! In the online world, some important news, reminders, and upcoming opportunities … Summer and Fall Classes are in SURF and Canvas Professional Learning Opportunities related to teaching online – Jim Jim Julius, Ed.D.Faculty Coordinator, Online Education
  • Canvas End of Semester / Term

    Canvas End of Semester / Term

    The following will help instructors understand how the end of semester is handled in Canvas, and how to update related Canvas course settings if necessary. By default, students who complete a class continue to have read-only access to the concluded class’s course materials, discussions, and grades. If you wish to restrict …
  • Course Visibility Options

    Course Visibility Options

    Should I make my Canvas course Public, Institution, or keep as the default Course? This guide explains the several options for privacy and visibility of courses.
  • Filtering your Roster List by Role in Canvas People

    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:  
  • Validate your course links in Canvas

    Validate your course links in Canvas

    It is important to verify that all links are working throughout a course. The course link validator tool can help make this task easy for faculty designing and teaching courses. The course link validator tool searches through course content and returns invalid or unresponsive external links in both published and unpublished content. The …
  • Reset Your Canvas Course Content

    Reset Your Canvas Course Content

    Overview From time to time, you may want to delete all of the content in a Canvas course site. This is most typically needed early in the course building process. For example, after importing content from another course, you may realize that you imported from the wrong course. The directions described below …
  • Stay Up To Date with Changes Happening within Canvas

    Stay Up To Date with Changes Happening within Canvas

    Visit the new Upcoming Canvas Changes page within the Canvas Community. This page is updated by Instructure and is the central location for communicating all Canvas’s significant upcoming changes. Canvas recommends you click the Follow button at the top of the document so you will receive all updates as they …
  • Canvas Start of the Semester Instructor Checklist

    Canvas Start of the Semester Instructor Checklist

    Create or Import your Content Multiple ways to begin to build your class Copy from another class in Canvas. Your access to classes you have previously taught in Canvas continues indefinitely. Copy in an entire course or portions of one from Canvas Commons. Create your content from scratch in Canvas …
  • Changing Your Sample Student Account Password

    Changing Your Sample Student Account Password

    The following steps will to assist you with changing your sample student account password.  Passwords may be changed throughout the year, passwords are required to be updated a year from the last reset  Follow these directions after your employee password is reset, or when you need to reset the password for security …
  • Canvas Student View vs MCC’s Sample Student Account

    Canvas Student View vs MCC’s Sample Student Account

    This site explains the difference between the Canvas student view tool and MiraCosta College’s sample student account. Canvas Student View You can view a course the same way that your students view your course without logging out of your instructor account. Enabling Student View creates a ‘Test Student’ in your …
  • Try These 10 Things To Fix Your Computer Problem Before You Call Support

    Try These 10 Things To Fix Your Computer Problem Before You Call Support

    Troubleshooting computer problems is part of modern life when you teach online. Before you make that support call, try your hand at fixing some of the most common problems yourself.
  • Office 365 Integration in Canvas

    Office 365 Integration in Canvas

    MiraCosta College Canvas 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. …
  • Adding Faculty Evaluators, TLC Staff,  Community Ed Students, Substitute Instructors, and TAs to Canvas classes

    Adding Faculty Evaluators, TLC Staff, Community Ed Students, Substitute Instructors, and TAs to Canvas classes

    Students and Instructors are automatically enrolled from SURF to your Canvas course several times a day. For the roles called out below, follow the specified directions to have the user enrolled within your course with the appropriate role.
  • Canvas Studio Video Tools

    Canvas Studio Video Tools

    Studio Flex Workshop Recordings Studio is a video tool integrated inside of Canvas, available to all faculty and students. With Studio: Studio is available to faculty and students from the blue global navigation bar in MiraCosta Canvas. Studio is also available to faculty only on the navigation menu within a …
  • Zoom: Getting Started, Getting Help, and Using Zoom with Canvas

    Zoom: Getting Started, Getting Help, and Using Zoom with Canvas

    Zoom Flex Workshop Recordings Zoom provides a reliable, easy-to-use, mobile-friendly tool for live, recordable online presentations, meetings, and discussions with audio, video, chat, screen sharing, polling, and more. It can be used within Canvas or independently. Zoom Pro is available to all MiraCosta faculty and staff at no charge. Students …
  • Online Education Workshop Archives

    Online Education Workshop Archives

    Flex Credit is available for viewing MiraCosta online workshop archives. Contact the Professional Development Program / Flex for more information. If you require improved captions for any of the video recordings below, please contact Jim Julius. Spring 2025 Fall 2024 Spring 2024 Fall 2023 Spring 2023 Fall 2022 Spring 2022 Fall …
  • Pronto – Connect, Collaborate, Communicate

    Pronto – Connect, Collaborate, Communicate

    Pronto Flex Workshop Recordings Pronto is an app that works within and outside of Canvas to enable seamless, fun, and effective communication between faculty and students, and among students. If you do not want Pronto to be available for any class, opt out via the Pronto Course Management tool. Some …
  • Adjust-All

    Adjust-All

    Adjust-All is a simple Canvas tool that enables you to change all course item due dates and announcement publication dates in one place, rather than having to access each item individually. View a short (3½ minutes) video that will show you how it works! Adjust-All Tips Adjust-All Limitations MCC Canvas You’ll …
  • Adjust-All tool just added to Canvas: May be useful RIGHT NOW!

    Adjust-All tool just added to Canvas: May be useful RIGHT NOW!

    Dear faculty and friends, We’ve just added a new tool to Canvas called Adjust-All. It’s a simple tool that can make life at this time of the year, when copying previous Canvas courses for reuse, a lot easier. It enables you to change all course item due dates and announcement publication …