Nov 2025 Online Ed and OER/ZTC reminders & events
Hello colleagues –
It’s a super busy time but there’s some important online education and ZTC reminders and info about upcoming events here that I hope you’ll scan!
- Report Canvas issues to Canvas support! In the wake of the AWS outage a couple weeks ago which took Canvas down for over 12 hours, we’re continuing to hear rumors of Canvas errors cropping up, but we aren’t seeing a bump in issues being reported to Canvas. Please do use the Canvas support system (hit Tech Help in Canvas at bottom left to see your options) to report concerns, both to help you and your students, and to ensure that if there is a larger issue going on, it’s more quickly elevated for Canvas to deal with and/or for us at MiraCosta to be aware of.
- Spring Schedule is Out! So …
- Course sections assigned to you in SURF 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).
- Make sure your Zero Textbook Cost and Low Textbook Cost spring course sections are marked as such in SURF. (See directions)
- Online Teaching Conference call for proposals is open through January 31 – MiraCostans who have a proposal accepted can get all travel expenses covered from the Online Ed budget!
- San Diego CCD invites you to their 2025 Distance Education Summit – Friday, Nov. 14 on Zoom and/or in person! See details (some of which are still being finalized) and if you’d like to attend in person, please let me know. No registration required to attend any of the Zoom sessions.
Finally, please see below for the latest from the ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) – there are tons of great general and discipline-specific webinars this month.
Please let me know if you have any questions about anything online or OER/ZTC related!
– Jim
Jim Julius, Ed.D.
Faculty Coordinator, Online Education