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>> Hi and welcome.

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My name is Cynthia Wilshusen,

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and I am your instructional
designer,

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distance education coordinator.

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So, I am the person
who will help you

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with all your instructional
technology needs related

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to your online environment.

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Whether it be online component
for face to face class

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or if you might be teaching
a distance education class,

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now or in the future, and
so I was just going to point

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out a few important things that
you might want to know about.

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So, one of the first
things is we do use Canvas

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as our campus learning
management system or LMS

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and Canvas can be used for
more than just online classes.

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So, we have a lot of faculty
who teach face to face

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that are using Canvas as a way

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to distribute information
to their students.

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So, Canvas is a great resource
if you wanted to be able

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to interact with your students
by giving digital copies

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of your files for reference, as
well as a tool to e-mail them,

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send out announcements like
reminders about a class,

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change or if you have a
field trip or that they needed

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to bring something to class.

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Announcements is a great tool.

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So, Canvas can be that portal
for all of that information.

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Every course, when it is
created in the course schedule,

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gets a corresponding
Canvas card.

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Your students do not have access

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to that course card unless you
actually publish the course.

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So, you want to make
sure that you go through

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and learn a little
bit about Canvas

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if you've never used it before,
reach out to me and I'd be happy

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to help you get your
course set up

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and put some basic
contact information

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and resources in there.

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In addition to Canvas, you're
going to want to make sure

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that you get access to our
Canvas teacher community.

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So, this is a teacher community
that I've created for our campus

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and in here it gives
you, under modules,

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lots of different resources
that you can use to build

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and design the content that
you've putting in your course.

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As well as how to
use certain features.

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So, if you're a do
it yourselfer,

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you can certainly get into
this course and access all

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of the resources on how to
you work with Canvas here,

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I've set up different
pages for that.

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In addition to that, I wanted to
point out that we do also have,

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through instructional
technology,

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access to some great
resources for you.

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We do have a sight
license for Respondus,

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which is a test bank system
and if you plan on using Canvas

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as a way to possibly administer
quizzes, which is a great way

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to do a pre-quiz for testing
your student's knowledge;

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whether it's a face to
face or an online class.

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You could use Respondus as
a way to build those quizzes

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or even bring in publisher
questions and then,

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easily import them into Canvas.

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We also have Adobe Suite
and Microsoft Office.

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The, Microsoft Office,
you can actually access

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for free anywhere off campus.

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The Respondus and Adobe
Suite, you'll need to put

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in an IT ticket and
ask them to install it

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on your campus computer.

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Respondus, I can give you
instructions on how to install

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that on a non-campus computer,

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and then some online
tools as well.

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We have access, just
recently, to Camtasia Relay,

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which is a video editing tool.

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So, if you wanted to create some
content lectures that you want

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to live beyond the classroom,
this will be a great tool

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and again, you can
synchronize them and link them

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up with Canvas so that your
students can access them

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and review the material when
they need, before an exam.

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And then also Voice
Thread is a way to interact

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with your students as far as
an online discussion board.

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It becomes more of a
visual discussion board,

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rather than a text based.

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So, those are some
resources available to you.

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I also have been securing, for
us, some great opportunities

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for enhancing your ability

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to create some really rich
content in your classrooms.

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So, I do have some
Microsoft Surface

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and Mac Book Pros available.

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Two of them have Camtasia
on them, so if you wanted

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to check them out and record
some videos, you could.

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We also have available
for check out to,

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that don't have the Camtasia
on them, but if you needed

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to do more enhanced skills

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that maybe your computer
doesn't have,

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I have access to
those resources.

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So, those are some things I
wanted to point out with regard

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to what we have available.

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You know, back into
the Canvas site,

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some things that you
want to be aware of.

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Be looking for e-mails from me.

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I try to send out
e-mails regularly.

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Send me your e-mail if you
haven't gotten the start

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of the semester check list
yet and this has direct links

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to the Canvas teacher
community where it reminds you

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of different things
that you probably want

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to set up in your course.

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And again, Canvas is
available for all resources.

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One of the really amazing things
about Canvas is in your course,

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go into here, you have
access to sharing information

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with your students
by uploading files.

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So, if you wanted to send them
a PDF copy of the Power Points,

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give them access to
your lecture materials,

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you could use files
as a way to do that.

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You could also create
nice, rich content pages

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so students can access and
reach your information visually.

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Most importantly, we've gotten
feedback from our students

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that they really like Canvas.

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It's easy to use and they wish
that more faculty would use it,

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primarily because they want
to know how they're doing.

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So, they want to see their
grades, they want to know

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where they're at in the
class and get a feel

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for where they have missing
assignments, if they do,

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and how they can ensure
that they stay on track.

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So, the grades tools in
Canvas is an online grade book

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and very easy to set up for a
face to face and online class,

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create a couple place
holders for your assignments,

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and just like an Excel
spreadsheet, you can go in

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and record the score
for the student

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and then the student can
see their grade book view,

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only their grades.

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They don't get to see all

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of the student's grades,
only their grades.

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And then, as I mentioned
before, announcements

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and then Canvas does
have a built-in inbox

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that is course specific.

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So, you can e-mail just the
students in your course,

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send them reminders,
welcome them to class,

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distribute information to them.

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It is important to recognize
that for any of those features

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to work, you do have
to publish the course.

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So, when you get into your
course homepage, the publishing

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of the course is right
here on the front page,

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but more importantly,
I'd like to help you.

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So, reach out to me if
you have any questions.

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I do have a handout that I got,
distributed; therefore useful.

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This has some information about
the resources I have in my roles

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and my contact information.

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Feel free to stop by my office,
I'm upstairs in the library.

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Give me a call, shoot me an
e-mail, since I do teach online

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and distance education.

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I'm online all the time.

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So, feel free to e-mail me.

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I look forward to personally
meeting you at some point

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in the future and
welcome to Cuesta College.