Resources Available from the Instructional Technology Center
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Drop-in Labs
Use this link to join our virtual drop-in labs in Zoom or
Join from your app or a browser with this information:
- Meeting ID 916 484 0000
- Meeting Passcode 916 484 0000
Drop-ins are scheduled 3 times each week throughout the semester:
- Tuesdays 1 to 3 pm
- Wednesdays 10 to 12 noon
- Fridays 1 to 3 pm
*instructional days, only
- Appointments: Please contact us through our Coordinator email: ITCTraining@arc.losrios.edu and we will be happy to setup a time to meet virtually.
Online Teaching….more Resources
- Instructors Helping Instructors – This is your space to contribute/view each others’ creative approaches to providing content, engaging students, planning assessments, or any other aspect of moving your courses into the online environment.
- Best Practices for a Move to Teaching Remotely – Tips for Communicating, Distributing and Collecting Resources, Delivering Lectures, and more.
- Tools for Teaching Remotely – Canvas, ConferZoom, Google Drive, & Email.
- Canvas: Just the Basics – Be sure to access the instructions for downloading the ARC Quick Start Shell to your Canvas courses here.
- Selected Canvas Guides – All users of Canvas have access to the wealth of Canvas Guides and American River College users can contact 24/7 Canvas phone support at 1-844-589-3851.
- TechConnect Zoom: Create Your Account & Teach! – TechConnect Zoom is a web conferencing tool, sponsored by the California Community Colleges, that allows you to set up web conferences with audio and video capabilities.
- Remember Accessibility in the Rush to Online Instruction – 10 Tips for Educators
- Maintaining regular, substantive communication with students
- Additional Help Resources
California Community Colleges Online Instruction Resources
California Community Colleges’ Success Network (3CSN) hosts online sessions to help faculty and staff navigate online environments. You can find a full schedule of sessions and times here.
CVC also provides various training; a listing of webinars is available on the CVC Events page.
FastTrack
Have you heard about FastTrack? The New FastTrack OEI Rubric Academy began in Fall, 2024. Full-time and part-time faculty will be provided with personalized support to assist you in aligning your online courses to the CVC-OEI Course Design Rubric.
- Think accessibility + equity + universal design = student success!
FastTrack is unique in that you will work collaboratively with a mentor throughout this process. Your mentor is an experienced online instructor and an online course designer who has both course design and accessibility expertise. Additionally, when your course is ready for an internal review, we have experienced course reviewers on the team who are your faculty peers. The FastTrack’s high-touch, high-support model, ensures that you get the support you need, when you need it. The outcome is that you end up with a course, that provides exemplary online learning opportunities for your students. In fact, the CVC-OEI has shown that courses aligned to the Rubric have almost a 5% greater success rate than courses which are not aligned. By aligning your online course(s) to the Rubric, you will also receive the coveted CVC-OEI’s Quality Reviewed badge.
There are requirements to sign up, but if you are eligible, you can receive compensation up to $900. You can learn more about the requirements and compensation on the FastTrack Overview page.
Accessibility
The California Community Colleges Accessibility Center website has information, training opportunities, and guides for supporting our students with accessible digital teaching and learning environment.
The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has published a short webinar on YouTube titled “Online Education and Website Accessibility.” The video is around seven minutes long and covers basic institutional responsibility as well as why accessibility is a necessary consideration as colleges and universities are transitioning many classes and instructional resources to the online environment.
Stay healthy, stay flexible, we can do this!
…for a quick smile: I Will Survive, Coronavirus version for teachers going online