Captioning update

Dear Faculty,

 

The state chancellor’s office recently delivered a memo to all CCCs prioritizing how it will pay for closed captioning. For LPC, this mainly concerns the use of 3C Media for captioning because that is the only paid service used here. If you do not use 3C Media and instead use the auto captioning feature in either Canvas Studio or YouTube to generate captions and edit them for accuracy, only the last paragraph of this email might impact you.

 

Because the pandemic has driven up the demand for video captioning, and because the state chancellor’s office is forecasting budget problems, the state is prioritizing the requests for captioning of videos submitted through 3C Media. If you have a student in your class with a documented Academic Accommodation Plan (AAP) through DSPS who requires closed captioning services, your request will receive the highest priority in 3C Media. To receive this priority, you will need to clearly state that the captioning request is to allow an academic accommodation per the AAP of a student enrolled in your course. Please mention this in the Notes section of the 3C Media captioning form.

 

Conversely, if you do not have a student with an AAP, your request will receive a lower priority in 3C Media. In the latter case, you might be better off using Canvas Studio (or even YouTube). Needless to say, all videos—whether you have students with an AAP or not—still have to be captioned and edited to ensure accuracy.

 

If live captioning or an ASL interpreter is needed for a synchronous class per a student's AAP, please contact the DSPS staff immediately so that they can help arrange for the needed accommodation.

 

Scott

 

Spring 2021 Canvas courses info

Canvas instructors,

 

Your Spring 2021 courses are now in Canvas (a little earlier in the day than I anticipated). If you do not see your course under Unpublished Courses on your Dashboard, it’s most likely because your name hasn’t gone through the official channels to become the instructor of record yet. At this early date, there are many of these. Once you become official, Banner will process you into the Canvas course.

 

Some notes:

 

1. If you plan to merge courses or sections, you will do that in Canvas, not in Class Web. Please read Merging Sections in Canvas, and follow the instructions.
2. When moving from one semester to another in Canvas, you can either copy a previous semester's course content or export the previous course and import it into the new course. You can do all of these by going to Settings in a course. While in Settings, DO NOT click the Copy this Course button on the right side; this tool creates a new course that your students will not be able to access.
   1. Learn how to copy a course.
   2. Learn how to export a course.
   3. Learn how to import a course.
3. As an online instructor, you have the option to use the Canvas model course template as a starting point. The course is based on the Academic Senate-approved OEI’s Course Design Rubric and provides organization and structure for your course. If you want to view or use the model course, complete this form.
4. The OEI’s Quest for Online Success tutorial is the student readiness tool used for DE courses at LPC. There is a Canvas version to which you can have students self-enroll. You can even have students complete assignments based on the tutorial. Learn more about Quest.
5. Remember that everything in your course must be made accessible to students with disabilities. To learn how to do this, complete the Canvas tutorial called Web Accessibility Course.
6. Students will be inputted into their courses in early January.
   

Scott

 

Reminder: Spring Canvas courses

This is a reminder that Spring 2021 course shells should be arriving in Canvas on Tuesday…probably in the evening.

 

Scott