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Teach Remotely – COVID19 Response

Resources Available from the Instructional Technology Center

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• Summer drop-in Labs — May 21 through August 13
  • Please join our Virtual Drop-in Labs: For assistance, join in through ConferZoom Meeting 916 484 0000.
    
    • Wednesdays 12 to 3 pm
    • Thursdays 9 am to 12 noon
• Appointments: Please contact us through our Coordinator email: ITCTraining@arc.losrios.edu and we will be happy to setup a time to meet virtually.

California Community Colleges: Daily Training Webinars

• ASCCC: Discipline-Specific Discussions April 1-8
  Discussion for ECE, Math, Science, Public Speaking, online assessments, etc.
• 3CSN Wayfinding Online Zoom Series: Navigating the Virtual Landscape Together
• CVC-OEI Resources Remote Instruction and Services Resources

Resources for Teaching Remotely

• 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 Fast 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.
  • ConferZoom: Create Your Account & Teach! – ConferZoom is a web conferencing tool, sponsored by the California Community Colleges, that allows you to set up web conferences with audio and video capabilities. These instructions will describe how to set up your professional account, with additional info on using ConferZoom with Canvas.
    • Captions for ConferZoom meetings
  • 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) is hosting a series of Zoom online sessions to help faculty and staff navigate online environments. Sessions include learning the basics of both Zoom and Canvas. Sessions will be limited to 50 participants. You can find a full schedule of sessions and times here.

CVC-OEI is also providing a number of webinars that may be helpful as colleges transition learning and student support services to a remote environment. A listing of webinars is available on the CVC-OEI Resources page. Recordings will be posted afterward for people who are unable to attend.

Accessibility

The California Community Colleges Accessibility Center will also be hosting a second set of webinars next week focusing on accessibility practices for Canvas and online teaching. The sessions will occur twice a day (10:00 – 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.) on Tuesday, March 24 through Thursday, March 26. All sessions will use the same Zoom meeting information.

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.

FastTrack Accessibility Resources: Tips & Tricks, Quick Trainings, Checkers & Checklist

Stay healthy, stay flexible, we can do this!

…for a quick smile: I Will Survive, Coronavirus version for teachers going online