Blackboard and Canvas instructors,
You may now request your Summer 2017 and Fall 2017 courses by logging into Class-Web, clicking Menu for Faculty, Staff & Advisors, then clicking either the Blackboard or Canvas links toward the bottom of the page. Choose Summer 2017 or Fall 2017 for the term and Las Positas for the campus, and click Submit Query. From here, you can request individual courses, or you can choose courses or sections to merge.
For those of you making the switch from Blackboard to Canvas—remember, Blackboard goes away at the end of the Spring 2018 semester—you can request help if you want. Past courses from Spring 2016, Summer 2016, and Fall 2016 have already been migrated to Canvas, so you can choose to have Canvas perform any post-migration cleanup work that is necessary. If you are interested in having Canvas do the cleanup for you, request your courses in Class-Web NOW, then fill out this form so we can get the process started. The deadline for request cleanup work is April 13.
Some important points about the Canvas cleanup, which Canvas refers to as “white-glove service”:
1. Having Canvas do the migration/cleanup work for you is OPTIONAL. You can do the migration and cleanup yourself. Here’s a document that will help you.
2. Priority will be given to DE courses; however, all courses (including hybrids and web-enhanced courses) are eligible.
3. For non-DE courses, cleanup work will commence in the order that requests are received.
4. Canvas personnel conducting the cleanup work are supposed to make themselves available for consultations with instructors.
5. Canvas will need instructor access to your past course in Blackboard to view the organization and structure of your course.
6. I am finalizing a model course template for Canvas online courses based on the OEI’s Course Design Rubric. It will be presented to the DE Committee on Friday and will, hopefully, be available for your perusal next week and optional use for Summer and Fall. A workshop on the model course template is available among the rest the other Canvas workshops on the Professional Development Spring 2017 Workshops page.
Scott
