Final Spring Canvas reminders

Spring 2017 Canvas instructors,

 

Information/reminders prior to the start of the Spring semester:

 

1. View Canvas beginning-of-semester faculty notes. There are a bit too many of these to fit into this email.
   
   
2. You can get your Canvas questions answered by calling or emailing Canvas directly. LPC has paid for an 18-month contract that gives students and faculty 24x7 access to Canvas. The toll-free phone number is 1-844-600-4956. The email address is support@instructure.com. This contact info is also in the Help menu in Canvas.
   
   
3. Publish your courses by the beginning of the day Tuesday so students can access them. If you are not teaching an online or hybrid course and want to wait longer to publish your courses, that’s up to you. To publish your course, go to the course home page, and click Publish.
   
   
4. If you want to upload Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint presentations into Blackboard, please adhere to these updated instructions on how to make them accessible to students with disabilities:
   
   Creating an accessible Word document for the web
   Creating an accessible PowerPoint presentation for the web
   
   
5. The Regular Effective Contact Guidelines, approved by the LPC Academic Senate, state that all Distance Education courses, whether fully online or hybrid, must demonstrate regular effective contact with student. For hybrids, this contact is required not only during on-campus meetings, but it is also required online.
   
   
6. The LPC DE Committee has developed recommendations, along with answers to frequently asked questions, that are intended to aid instructors—particularly new instructors—in determining how many students to add and when to add those students near the beginning of the semester. View the recommendations and FAQs.
   
   
7. Here is LPC’s DE drop policy:
   
   The instructor may drop students who miss the first meeting of a course. The first meeting of online or hybrid Distance Education courses is the first day of the class as specified in the class schedule listing.  For these courses, instructors may drop students who do not log into their Blackboard course and/or complete indicated activities by the third day of classes. DE instructors may drop students if they have not submitted work and/or accessed the class for two consecutive weeks. For Summer courses, DE instructors may drop students if they have not submitted work and/or accessed the class for one week.

 

 

Good luck with your courses!

Scott