The MiraCosta College Student Support Guide Module is available from the Canvas Commons.
This module has relevant student resources and links that would be appropriate to go within the first week course content within a Canvas course.
Go to the Commons in Canvas and search “Student Support Guide” and you will be able to access it.
The first and last name displayed in your Canvas profile is stored in the preferred name field within the Workday HR system. Once your preferred name is updated in the Workday HR system it will then update to Peoplesoft / SURF and update to Canvas during the next scheduled data transfer.
Any questions about Workday should be directed to the Workday Help Desk. When a ticket is entered there, it is routed to the individual who can assist.
Human Resources can also be contact via email at : HRCalendar@miracosta.edu.
Note: If you update your preferred name in the Worday HR system for Canvas it will also update your instructor name on the SURF class schedule.
Please be advised that your permanent HR and payroll record will reflect your legal name unless you legally change your name and notify HR.
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.
Please be advised that your permanent record will reflect your legal name unless you legally change your name through the courts and complete MiraCosta College Change of Information form.
If you are embedding a Google doc for content purposes (ie you aren’t having students edit the document), I recommend the trick of replacing the end of the Google doc URL from the last forward slash to the end with preview?pli=1
Here’s the standard URL of a Google doc set up with permissions for others to be able to view it:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11r3xiCe5Q7FNtb6x9opJAjL8JcaUwmIuw2_CJtPIySk/edit?usp=sharing
I change the final part after the last slash
from: edit?usp=sharing
to: preview?pli=1
So now the URL is:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11r3xiCe5Q7FNtb6x9opJAjL8JcaUwmIuw2_CJtPIySk/preview?pli=1
When editing in the Canvas rich content editor where you want to embed the Google doc, click the button at upper right of the editing window that says HTML Editor.
Then you need to add code that looks like this:
You can just copy this code for future use, and substitute the URL in the code with the URL of your Google doc.
You can also adjust the width and height to your preference, but these seem to work well.
