Mary Rees: Good afternoon and thank you for joining us. We'll wait a minute or two while we're waiting for everyone to come and join in to the Moorpark College Update.
Good afternoon and thank you for joining us. We'll wait just another minute, while we're waiting for everyone to still come in joining, into the update.
We want to thank you all for joining us for the November 9, Moorpark College Update. Just a reminder, that the update is being taped and it will be captioned, and it will be posted on the president's website.
The...
the Moorpark Update is also closed captioned. So if you're interested in having it caption- reading in captions, please click the "CC" at the bottom of your screen.
As we begin today's update, we want to do it in solemn remembrance of the loss from the Borderline shooting, two years ago, particularly our student Noel Sparks.
So again, just a remembrance of the loss from the Borderline shooting and the huge tragedy of it and how it has impacted all of us here at Moorpark College.
Thank you. For our update today, on the agenda, we're going to have updates from Julius, Business Services, Academic Affairs, Student Services, and then we're delighted to have a campus spotlight,
Business faculty Jack Goetz is going to be talking to us about online learning feedback. So we have a lot of really important information for everyone today. So good afternoon, Julius.
Julius Sokenu: Hi Mary, hi, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us this this afternoon. Next slide please?
I want to extend a big thank you to all of you who attended the Moorpark College fall 2020 Town Hall on Thursday, very good attendance and
was robust conversation, I appreciate your feedback. Our recording and work group polls are available on the college president's website. Please make sure you turn to that
site, if you want to follow on the conversations that and look at the PowerPoints that were shared during that event. Also, please do complete your social justice work group polls by this Friday.
Those polls again can be...
can be retrieved at the site. Results for the poll will be presented during the November 23rd MC Campus Update. This will give us an opportunity as a community to finalize our priorities and our actions around our social justice initiative.
Again, I appreciate the participation of all involved and the opportunity for us to talk about the college budget, as well as the social justice work group accomplishments and their plans for the future. Next slide please?
And it is a great pleasure to inform you that the Campaign for College Opportunity has identified Moorpark as a 2020 champion of higher education
and this accomplishment and this honor is a highly revered one and I want to thank every single member of our faculty, staff,
kudos to our students, and particularly those individuals who work to help students transfer, and for those who work in curriculum that is able to prepare students for smooth transfer. Each one of you are responsible for this honor.
Champions of higher education are those institutions with the highest number of associate degrees for transfer and they also recognize those institutions for
providing the opportunity for students from underserved and underrepresented communities to transfer to universities, and so this is an opportunity for us to not only
meet our transfer mission, but it's also an opportunity for us to meet our completion agenda. particularly the completion of our students who are in minority and underserved populations. You are all welcome to
sit in, join the celebration on Thursday, November the 19th that we'll send the link out to the college community and it will be
an opportunity to celebrate Moorpark and the other colleges that have been identified as a champion of higher education.
You should know that Moorpark has been in the top five for at least the last six years and I know we've always been on the list since its inception. So, that is...
that's a feat. That's a great accomplishment in our part, and you are all responsible for that success. Thank you. I'm going to pass it on to Jennifer.
Jennifer Clark: Good afternoon, everybody. Happy to be with you on this very beautiful Monday afternoon. I just have a few quick updates for you from Business Services. I wanted to let you all know that this Saturday,
November the 14th, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm there will be free flu shots available for the community in the observatory parking lot. That's parking lot D, that's normally where the COVID testing is that the county does on our campus.
This Saturday, there will be no COVID testing, but rather flu shot, free flu shots for the community for anybody who shows up from again 10:00 to 4:00 in parking lot, D.
There is a mask required, it's a drive through process, and you do need to be wearing a mask, but you show up, you'll get a flu shot.
I also wanted to give everyone a quick reminder from Business Services that just that remember November and December are very, very short working months,
so if you have anything that needs to be entered like a requisition and you need items soon, or maybe you have a grant and funding you're spending window, your grant period is ending,
that's coming up really, really soon. So if you have a deadline, like a December deadline or even a January deadline,
you should be working probably within the next three weeks try to get everything in by the first week of December. That's only three weeks from now. So just as a reminder, get those things in as quickly as you can.
The other thing I wanted to just let everybody know from technology is we have some WiFi updates. So Dan and his team with
with F M & O and now have been working furiously in parking lot areas.
The parking lot structure, I know that we since we have classes in there, we've got the basement level now covered,
we've got WiFi in the basement. We've got it also on the second floor for the classes in the WiFi structure. We also have WiFi out in the M lot locations, so by the music building,
you know, that's also has good coverage out there and just wanted to let the campus know also that our emergency notification system
all of those installations are happening very quickly. It's one of the upsides of not having a whole lot of people on campus is
we can install equipment, and wiring, and infrastructure, a lot quicker than we normally would. Our E N S system again the emergency notification system those installations are going along swimmingly and they will be complete pretty soon.
Last thing I wanted to just let you all know I'm always talking about the CARES Act,
we are just about at $2 million dispersed. Just a couple dollars, a few dollars shy of $2 million that we've dispersed to our students over 2500, well over 2500 students have received CARES funding
for either the summer semester or the fall semester. We've got a little more than 500,000 to go.
Probably within the next month or two, those funds will all but the history, those will all be expended. So we're making great progress there, and that is it from Business Services. Back to you, Mary.
Mary: Thank you, Jennifer.
Several different announcements regarding academics and that on the next slide.
I want a big, have a big thank you for all of you that took part of the town hall. It was totally
great information on the budget, but also it was really wonderful to hear all of the commitment and all of the exciting work that's been done from each of the four work groups regarding the college's commitment to social justice.
One of the other interesting things happening right now is that the triple C double A has met and has made a proposal regarding
Athletics for fall. I mean, I should say for spring. Those recommendations are going to be discussed here at the district, within our region to try to come up with safe
opportunities for our students within the athletics world, so,
stay tuned, we've got a lot of interesting things, trying to figure out how to do this in a safe manner to support all of our student athletes, as you know, our student athletes
are truly committed both to their education as well as to their athletics, and they have got quite a plan for how to do all of the sports during the spring semester. So this will be a very interesting to see how, if this can be, how it can be accomplished.
Spring registration has started. I want to encourage you in the classrooms and the staff to encourage the students to sign up for classes for spring.
Spring will be the same as in the fall, where we've got 90% of our classes are online and about 10% have some kind of an on ground component.
It is really important to help reassure our students and to help motivate them to continue on in their education. We're going to talk a little bit about some feedback we got from our students,
and I do believe that they really need our support and our encouragement in this time, to continue to move forward on their educational process.
To help our students for pass no pass, usually a student has to determine if they want to take a pass no pass within the first third of the semester,
that time frame is being suspended for this semester. So if a student would still like to convert they're class or taking to a pass no pass versus offering it for a grade,
they can and we'll be sending out some information on how they can do that. Do be sure and remind the students that it is not clear that all of the institutions
will be accepting a pass no pass versus a grade. There are a few exceptions for transfer institutions that accepting pass no pass's. So do
let your students know about that option, but do have them be sure and talk to either the transfer institution or their counselors to make sure that it does support their education plan as best as possible.
We've been hearing over and over again about trying to meet the needs of our students, and our faculty, and the staff and as far as some of this faculty believe that if they
would like to be able to have the opportunity to come in and use their office space. If you need to come in and use your office for certain processes, or certain procedures, taping, different things that are needed,
please notify your dean and let's work through that just the same way it has been. If you need to come on campus, work through your dean, we'll schedule
the time to come in. We do need to be sure and notify for M & O so that these areas can be cleaned afterwards,
but we do want to be as flexible as we can to try to support when people have specific needs that they need to come into campus for.
We're also looking at ways to provide help our students as far as having a place to come in as computer labs and that, so we are going to be working with the
student government to try to send out some information to assess the student needs.
When we're looking at trying to define student needs, we have sent out a survey to try to find out, and to listen to our students,
and the next slide, you can see we sent out a text to the students, and over 842 students responded. This wasn't a short
survey, there were over 50 questions, and it was really interesting within the first two hours over 500 of our students have responded, with giving us their input.
So within two hours, we had over 500, and I believe over the time frame that we went, we had over 840 students that responded to the text. In order,
excuse me, in order to meet the student needs, we wanted to find out what they needed as far as their technology needs, as far as their food and housing needs,
and as far as how they're doing on in the online world, we'll have this survey available for those of you that would like to look at it.
Excuse me, but there's just a few key points that we did want to put out for you.
12% of our students don't have reliable computers at their, at home. 10% do their schoolwork on their cell phones. 5% need a webcam.
45% feel like they do not have reliable internet at their house, and 20% 24% excuse me, feel that their school performance is suffering and have considered dropping out because of unreliable internet access.
Then we also asked questions about their food and housing insecurity. 41% said they have lost their job or had their hours reduced. 22% that don't live with their parents and have to pay their housing themself.
90% were not able to pay their rent or utilities within the last 30 days. 26% had to cut the size of meals or skip meals within the last 30 days.
29% had trouble affording textbooks. 49% have not completed a FAFSA or the California Dream Act. We know that this form in order to be accessible, to have access to the Dream Act or to the CARES funding, they have to fill out this form and half of our students have not.
47% were not aware about the CARES Act Emergency Grant. Jennifer was telling us information about it, how much money has been given out to the students, but almost half of our students are not even aware of it.
25% are not aware that we have a payment plan for our, for tuition.
This is a big concern because we have way too many students that get dropped for non payment. So we want to make sure that we get this information out to our students. If we also ask them about how they're doing with their, in the online world.
64% find online classes more difficult than in person classes. 43% feel that professors have not been responsive this semester.
70% have not attended professors online office hours. I know you're thinking, "Well, let's correlate these two pieces and see if we can get them in to the office hours or find some ways to non passively reach out to them."
64% have not met with a counselor this semester. 50% do not have a quiet place at home to study.
31% would use a Moorpark computer lab, if we had one available, and 21% would like to be contacted by a specific department, Counseling or Financial Aid to meet their specific needs.
The good news is, now that we have reached out and are listening,
we can do something about it. We are those students that wanted to be reached out to, we have their phone numbers, and their contact information, and we are reaching out to them to try to personally help them with that.
We're looking for ways to provide hotspots. We do have webcams and we do have computers that can be loaned out to your students. So if you're aware of a student that needs a webcam or a computer, please
contact your dean contact, Linda Resendiz or myself. We're considering how to open up a computer lab to provide the quiet space for our students.
Hopefully we'll get more and more information out about the expanses to Raider Central where we do have food that are being
provided available to our students. We have expanded financial and outreach for CARES funding and for emergency grants. So if you know of any students, please encourage them to contact our financial aid office.
We'll be providing hotel vouchers for students that are housing insecure. We're going to be hopefully working with the district to provide filters so our students can easily determine if a course is a Zoom course or is completely
asynchronous class so, that the students can have more choices to try to help optimize what works best for them.
We have a virtual welcome desk, student help, online help desk. We're going to continue to have professional development opportunities so our faculty and our staff are prepared as best as possible to help our students
move on their educational plan. We've had additional mental health trainings recently, and we'll continue to offer those, and we're working to revise the drop for non payment policy.
Expanding ZTC course offerings, we encourage you, Cindy talked last week or two weeks ago, I should say, at the update about the value of that,
and you can hear from our students that many of them do need the option of having zero textbook costs.
Implementing Guided Pathways, we believe Guided Pathways will help us provide a lens to meet these student needs,
and as I mentioned, we're reaching out to the students. I just want to encourage you, to let you know that the college is reaching out to the students,
and we are really working to try all of you, are to try to help meet those students and help them move forward on their educational pathways.
Let's see, I think...
Amanuel?
Amanuel Gebru: Thank you Mary.
Just a few updates from my end. If you want to go to the next slide, Matt, for me, please? So we have a few updates, just want to kind of update you and remind you that for spring 2021
we will be offering five sections of linked courses for our students for in our first year experience and also second year experience.
We've been promoting these courses to students, but these classes are open for all students who still need Communication, Psychology, or Sociology courses.
This information was also emailed out to the campus, so please help to inform our students have the opportunity. If you have any questions, Claudia Sitlington,
you can email her or call the office, and they'll be able to really support our first year experience and also second year experience and making sure they are connected with support services through the FYE program.
The other piece I want to talk about is Admissions and Records.
The...
the slide demonstrates in which ways Admissions and Records, and fac- and especially for our faculty, special population groups started registration for spring 2021 in October,
and at this time, we are having continuing students register in groups for corresponding to how many units they have earned.
We're looking forward on November 12, the High School at Moorpark College cohort will begin registering the classes for spring.
On November 16, the new and returning students that have completed orientation and ed plans will also begin registration,
and on November 19 registration will open to all matriculated college students
with dual enrollment starting on November 23. So we wanted to make sure we share that information with you. That's all on our website, but just want to make sure you get that information.
And also, students are receiving district communication via text, email, about registration availability.
Any student issues can be directed to Admissions and Records at our number at 805 378 1429 and I'll post the information on the chat with the MC Admissions email. So a lot of good work happening in terms of,
you know, Admissions and Records, but I really want to take the time to thank our A & R technicians, and staff, and student staff,
they work tirelessly behind the scene to help make sure our system works really well and ensuring the students are getting what they need in terms of registering or any support they need in regards to Admissions and Records.
And also want to thank Dave and Kathy for their leadership and helping
really everything given COVID, with our students with regards to registration.
The other piece I want to touch on is the,
the 9 11 if you got to the next slide for me, Matt?
Tomorrow, please join us for our Veterans Day recognition at 11:00 am there will be a welcome by our college president,
board members, and a tribute video of our current veterans students and faculty who served in the military. So we hope
that you can join us tomorrow morning at 11:00 am for our Veterans Day Recognition event.
And then last but not least, November 8, 2020 is National First Generation Celebration Day,
celebrating all college students who are first generation in their families to go to college. Moorpark College has over 4,000 first generation college students here. So we have a short video that we want you to look at that you can,
if you can play that for us, Matt?
Lydia: I'm a first generation student, none of my family has ever been to college and I have to navigate this whole college thing on my own without any help, really, and it's been hard.
Ulises: I'm a first generation student, I migrated here when I was like 10 years old, so it was hard for me to catch on quickly, but I did, and then before I knew it, I was just kind of like baffled. It was a culture clash.
Maria: I am 20 years old and I am a student at Moorpark College, second year, and I plan on transferring,
and I also am a Kumon tutor, and a private tutor and I was born in Guatemala, and came to the U.S. when I was five years old.
Jennifer: I am a Moorpark College student, first generation, and I'm a single mom with four kids and returning to school after 25 years.
Ulises: I never thought I would be, you know, 38 years old and back in school, so
it was scary at first, yes, I admit it.
Mariana: I'm the first person in my family to go to college. [Marnie Melendez]: How do you feel about that?
Mariana: It's been interesting. It's been a lot of emotions.
On screen text: "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." William Faulkner.
Mariana: I remember I got in contact
with the people from the foster youth group and they connected me to EOPS.
Jennifer: Both my parents never graduated college and seeing their experiences, they've had to struggle a lot and it's shown me how important
getting a degree is.
Maria: When we came over here, my sister, and my brother, and I were the first people in our family to go to elementary school, middle school, and high school, and college now.
Ulises: Greatfully there was great programs out there that kept me
on a good foundation, because I didn't have a mom or a dad, so I was just, you know, looking for guidance.
Lydia: Yeah, I still live with my mom, she's a single mom and I do have three younger half brothers and I do have an older half brother. The younger brother has Down Syndrome, so we're in between classes and therapy, all day.
Mariana: My family, I hope to grow as a person and help them grow,
help the kids in my family get an education.
Jennifer: The EOPS program has been incredible for me, the personalized experience with the counselors
has really kept me on track and focused, and has given me a lot of motivation, they've been nothing but positivity all the time.
Ulises: I'm grateful for Marnie and people that care about me that went above and beyond
the shouldn't have, but they did, and if that was answering their call I'm grateful for it because I'm here today because of them.
Lydia: This is my actually my first semester in EOPS, I've already been here for a whole year, so I just figured out about this, and so far, it's been amazing.
Mariana: I'm very thankful for Moorpark College, I love my school, I love EOPS I, I do not think I would have made it without them, they,
they're very valuable to me.
Ulises: So, people ask, often ask, "What is EOPS?" and it's like, well,
it's more than what it stands for I say, you know, this is like a
like a home far away from home. So if, you know, if you need a family this is the like the perfect place to come.
Lydia: I didn't have the help I actually needed in my first year of college and now I'm getting it like every month with counselors and meetings on Zoom because they make me and I like it. [Lydia laughs]
Maria: My parents kind of taught me as a first generation student that I need to be independent and I need to look for the resources that will benefit me.
I wouldn't want to have it any other way. If I wasn't attending EOPS I think I would be really lost.
Ulises: Here it's all about helping each other grow and getting to that next level. That's what I like about EOPS.
Maria: My community, the Latino community, doesn't really talk about mental health,
and so it was very nerve wracking working and going to school and being having a really hectic lifestyle, so, I was at my breaking point, and thankfully I reached out to EOPS actually, and they told me about the psychologist at Moorpark and she became
a friend, and someone to talk to, someone who wouldn't belittle my thoughts.
Lydia: My brother, my cousin, and niece also have Down Syndrome and Autism, and my cousin, other cousin has Cerebral Palsy,
so I see all of it firsthand. I want to get into that community of helping them, getting my degree in to Occupational Therapy.
Jennifer: I'd like to major in Sociology, with an emphasis on social justice.
Mariana: I'm hoping to become Sociology professor. My goal in life is that the children in my family get an education. I hope to create a positive impact
through education because it's made a big difference in my own life, and I would like to share that with my family, with
the kids in my family, my nieces and nephews, and other students as well.
Ulises: There's opportunities too and you only got to be willing to
stretch yourself and grow, so Moorpark helps with that. I'm really grateful for what I asked, because I feel like the answer was
placed right before my eyes and all I had to do was just trust and believe that I'm on the right path.
Jennifer: You want to do them proud too. Someday I would like to be a counselor and help other disadvantaged students as well. The EOPS staff has really,
has really inspired me, I see what a positive environment this has been and how much it helps people like me to achieve their goals.
[Marnie]: How proud are you of yourself? [Jennifer]: Very proud. I'm very, I am very proud of myself for coming as far. It didn't seem possible 10 years ago, so.
Maria: I had a lot of friends who came out to me about their mental health issues and
how important it was for them to look for a resource to talk to, so that brought me to my passion to become a clinical psychologist or possibly a psychologist for
younger children.
Lydia: Transfer from Moorpark into a great university, and make yourself sprout into different communities. It's one big community, full of love.
Mariana: I'm very happy to be part of Moorpark college and to be part of the EOPS program.
Maria: I'm trying to kind of encourage seniors at high school to attend community college because it's just a life changing opportunity. So I would recommend
anyone to attend Moorpark College because of all the resources and compassion that they have.
Ulises: Moorpark hired the right people,
and that's what I like. Like they put, they provided me with every single tool that I needed to, you know, not only get the job done, but also to feel successful.
Lydia: I'm going back to Agoura High School and let them know how great Moorpark College is to me.
Mariana: Moorpark College is the best, it's number one.
On screen text: I'm First! Moorpark College
On Screen text: A film by Dina Pielaet @ MC Marketing. With thanks and Acknowledgement to Marnie Melendez, E.d.D., EOPS Coordinator and our MC/First Generation Students: Lydia, Ulises, Maria, Jennifer, Mariana.
Amanuel: Thank you Matt for playing that video and just want to say thank you are first generation students for choosing Moorpark as the place
that's your new home, that continues to educate you, but also thank you to the EOPS faculty and staff who
are really behind the scenes making the magic happen, and thank you to Marnie for your leadership.
This is not just about EOPS and first generation, but this is also about all the work, our faculty and staff are doing to continue to welcome our first generation students. So thank you for that video.
Mary: Thank you, Amanuel, and everyone that worked on that video, what wonderful stories, and wonderful
students, and all the people, the faculty and staff that have supported them. We want to thank Jack Goetz, one of our Business faculty for coming today and being part of our campus spotlight. He's going to come and give us some insight on online learning feedback. Good afternoon Jack.
Jack Goetz: Hi, Mary, and hi everybody. Thank you so much for inviting me.
And what I, you know, the reason behind
Mary suggesting that I present to everybody, is just, I think I use a tool, the media comment tool that not everyone knows how to use,
and it took me some time, even though Tracie taught it to me in the certification class, I thought at that time, it was like tools, and gadgets, and gimmicks, and I had so much else to do,
but it, and it took some time and experimentation for me to really learn how to use it, but I thought that because I've receive so much positive feedback from students,
I would at least show everybody else who isn't using it, why I think it's a really good tool. If you talk about personalizing our courses and personalizing the experience for the student and the instructor, and our goals with equity and success,
a lot has to do with making the course come alive and it's particularly hard in these COVID times, right? So, I have gotten such tremendous feedback from using the media comment tool for my assignments, including students recording videos back to me, which is always a surprise,
but the points I want to make and then I'm going to demonstrate it, is once you master it, it really takes about the same time as written comments, and
also, I think students, you should probably think about using it where students wouldn't necessarily benefit from written comments more than oral comments. Let me just show you how that works out on the screen. So I'm gonna
share my screen now.
Alright, so this is my final project in my business law class so,
such a pleasure teach with the Business faculty and there's so many great faculty here on campus,
and one of the final projects I do, I used to have an option of going to the courthouse with me, or watching a movie, a legal movie and analyze it, now, obviously the courthouse option's out for at least a while.
So this is how it looks for the students, and when they want to do it, it's right there.
It's the end of the course. It turns out as my final project. I have a little video describing it,
and now it's my time to grade it, and what I've traditionally done with this is
give a media comment, rather than a written comment, because the students aren't going to benefit from written comments in the, necessarily in the course anymore and also a way to personalize sort of the end of the course.
There are obviously if this works for you and I admit it may work for me because I only have 100 to 150 students this semester and some of you I know have a lot more, and this would be a lot to do, so I'm very humble in presenting this,
but I just wanted to show you as a tool. If it works for you, it'd be good to incorporate as early in the semester as you can,
on maybe some other feedback. So let's just say you want to do this for an any assignment,we'll just take the final project here, because our students in this class haven't done it yet,
you'd just, like most of us do, you'll now want to grade the final projects, we go to our Speed Grader. So, and then, you know, as the vagaries of the internet will come, will load it
and of course, none of my students have a submission for this assignment because it's not the final project time yet, but funny we have a test student who actually has a submission. So I'll put that up there.
Alright, so if you see on the screen now you can see this test student and I've already done a video comment
for them, and the reason I prerecorded it, is because I found I couldn't do it live for you and also be on Zoom at the same time, presented some
technical problems beyond my capabilities, maybe Michael or Tracie could have figured that out, but I didn't have the capacity to. So in any event,
if you, let's say I hadn't put that up there, you would go to this place right here where it says "media comment." Now if we want to return a document, hopefully you can all see my screen, you would
do a file attachment, and I do that for some projects, but media comment is here, right, and we click that.
And then what comes up is a screen that says, do you wanna, what camera do you want to use, all those kinds of things, and we click on that and go forward with the media comment, and that's how we would do that.
Let me tell you, let me show you how it turns out when you've done it. So once I'm able to do that, I'm
able to then record the comment, and save it, and we'll talk about those steps, but here's how it ultimately turns out,
"Hi Jessica, Dr. Jack here. Well congratulations on your A in the course. It was well earned. First, let me just address your final project since this media
comment is attached to your final project. You did a really good job. You were all over the ethical model. The WH model. You saw its application. You analyzed each one of the stakeholders as we suggested you should,
and you used all the rules. So thank you so much for being on top of that. You lost a point on the initial question about negligence. You didn't necessarily see Laurence Fishburne's
comment in the movie being directed towards cause, it was. Basically he was saying, "Look, if cars in general, blow up at a certain, this rate and this model that we're thinking is, it blew up on our client,
how do we prove if they're blowing up at the general rate that other cars blow up, how do we prove that it actually was related to the defect?" That's cause. You talked about duty.
and whether they breached the duty,
okay, I gave you points for that but that I don't think that's where he was headed with that comment,
and also on the wrestler situation Promissory estoppel you we suggest that you go to the definition.
The definition you took, I don't know where you got that from that, alright, so it's not from the textbook. It's not one we discussed in class and I think it led your analysis, a little bit off,
but on the whole, you still spotted and you certainly got the discovery issue that was later on. So, good job in the final project.
As far as your A, you're probably not a great quiz taker, you know, certainly in this course you aren't it will, you know, B's mostly.
Okay, you know that helped you, but our course to so focused on participation and you did really well on that, Jessica.
I look forward to your posts every week that depth, the analysis, you're on time, you picked up bonus points for being on time, everything really clicked.
So that because the emphasis, we put on participation you emerge with a solid A and congratulations.
I wish you all the best in your future endeavors and remember, if you have an academic recommendation later on,
perhaps you apply to a four year, and you would like somebody to academically recommend you, I'm happy to do so, and I do so all the time. So please, don't hesitate to reach out to me.
All in all, it was great that you chose this section of Business Law. Thank you so much and for now. Dr. Jack signing out. Take care. Bye."
"Hi Jessica. Dr. Jack here." Sorry about that. We've seen enough of him. So,
again, I'm just going to use my screen for a little bit longer and just talk to you a little bit through it.
There are a couple things when you experiment with this that you'll have to be careful about in the beginning that I didn't know, and it took me
many hours of frustration. So I'm trying to save you some hours of frustration. If you decide that media comment is a good tool for you to use, it does personalize the course. First, when you get done with your media comment,
what will happen is it'll give you a place to stop. It'll say "stop the recording" and you'll stop it, and then there'll be a click to save, there'll be a button that says "Save," and when you'd save that
nothing happens right away, and that's where as a faculty member who's not well versed in technology, you can go "Oh my gosh what's going on?
I did it wrong," and quite frankly you didn't do it wrong, most likely if you saw yourself recording just like any Zoom recording, you probably did it right. It just takes a while for Canvas to upload the whole thing,
and so until it appears in here, which it will. It may take up to a minute.
Just be patient. Okay, we tell our students all the time to be patient. We have to be patient too. Once it appears there, even if it appears without a picture, it'll appear at least with the play bar,
you'll know that it's there, and then you can move on to your next student, however you want to do that, but,
you know, early on I would panic, say, "Oh, it's not there," and I didn't see anything when I clicked save and I got out of it and I lost the whole thing. So it was really important to get over that hurdle.
Okay, just again, wanted to encourage you, I know you're not all in the same situation, a lot of you have a lot more students but I
really encourage you to think about it, about personalizing your course. Happy to answer any questions from a faculty standpoint, obviously, technically, you know, I'd leave those to Michael, but, you know, at least from a faculty standpoint, if there's any questions, happy to answer.
Mary: Jack did have several questions. The big one from several people. First of all, there were at least three or four all big thank you's to you for showing them or people saying that they're currently using it, so they love the tool.
There was a couple questions asking about ADA captioning.
Jack: Yeah, good question. I, you know, I haven't been able to figure that out and I haven't focused on that. So there. Again, I would leave that to Michael if there's a way to do that, but I don't know about that.
Mary: Okay, we'll look into that. Thank you. Then also the question about how do you get your students to check assignment comments?
Jack: You know, if you have a secret, please pass it on to me. You know, with this project, they're so anxious to see how they finished the course,
that invariably 80-90% of them do, some don't, you know, and we actually could pick which ones don't, but early on the course I'm training them to
check assignment comments and the way I do that is, you know, like most of us, we have a discussion board, and we have a discussion post, well
and then students have to reply to the discussion posts. The ones that show they learned from the discussion board actually get an upgrade on their original post score.
So they learn very quickly to go in, look at my comments, look at where the rest of the discussion board, so they learn very quickly if they can pick up extra points by going back and read my comments before they start replying to their classmates, that helps,
but again, your guests as good as mine, not everybody does.
Mary: Thank you, and I love this comment. "This is great. It's almost as if the student is there with you."
Jack: Yeah, and I think that's really important to establish that connection. We're all so,
you know, frustrated by the COVID environment and I understand that. So we just gotta, you know, make lemonade out of lemons, or whatever you might want to say, and this is one of these ways. Now, I was used to doing it before COVID,
and even with my face to face classes, but I would say that during COVID it really has made a difference.
Mary: Thank you Jack and I really appreciate you sharing that with us. On the next slide, we're going to talk about that our wonderful instructional design team have some trainings for us, and in fact, one of these would go over specifically on how,
how to provide this type of feedback. Get Acquainted with Microsoft Teams that's going to be going on this Friday, and then next week is
Transforming Canvas Feedback which Jack was giving us some excellent examples of on how to use that in the classroom.
So we're going to be continuing with some great professional development to try to help us in the classroom streamline and make it easier and smoother for our students.
Let's see if there's any other questions. I think we're good on that. So thank you all. There's a couple of questions that had
come from,
from the group. The one is the wondering about the availability of WiFi. We're currently looking into it and we don't know whether we're going to be able to offer it or not, but we are certainly pursuing that so,
when we figure out the how to we will get back with you on that. There was a second question about EW's
and whether we can offer those this year, Julius, do you want to comment on the EW's situation?
Julius: Yes, we are allowed by the State Chancellor's Office's guidance to offer the EW's through December, excuse me, we cannot give refunds, though this time around but we can definitely, students can take us up and they can request an EW, and I think I saw that Dave Anter or someone actually
added a link or posted a link to the process for requesting the EW.
Mary: Thank you, there was a question also as far as opening the library, we're looking at using a computer lab on campus and we will be getting some information out as far as hours and availability,
and it would be by appointment, just for the students at the beginning to figure out how to do this. So, we'll pursue that as well.
There was also a question regarding high flex. If you are interested in looking into high flex for spring or fall please reach out to your dean and let's have a conversation of it.
I think it's got an interesting opportunity for different types of pedagogy, so I'm certainly interested in talking with people on that so.
Very good. Julius, do you have any last comments for us for today?
Julius: Yes, I just want to thank everyone who is responsible for our students successes.
The testimony from the EOPS students tell us, and they explicitly tell us that students need connection and that they need connection that is directed, they need connection that is focused,
and that they need to feel that somebody cares about them, and what the EOPS students demonstrate and what many of
our students acknowledge is that faculty, staff, administrators, and student workers at Moorpark College care about the success of our students and we thank you,
I thank you for the work that you do in that arena. What we also see from the presentation, from Jack's presentation is that
as we do this work, in particular in the context of the COVID pandemic and the remote learning, the more we can bring the learning,
the intimacy, the personal interaction that comes from an on ground experience to the virtual landscape,
the more we're able to humanize the learning experience for our students, and I think you have for your innovations and I know that it takes time. I know that
often it comes out of frustration or struggle, but that frustration or that struggle yields such bounty for our students and clearly the work that faculty have
demonstrated and the work that our classified professionals have demonstrated over time illustrates this. Tomorrow, the board meeting,
some of our faculty will be presenting what they do in the virtual landscape, and if you get a chance, please pop in and watch them. I don't know when they'll go on hopefully before 10:00, but
clearly, we want to keep celebrating the fact that Moorpark College pursues excellence and thus, we see that in our faculty, and in our staff, and in our administrators and so we motivate him model that for us, students, thank you so much for all the work that you do.
We, I hope you have a safe and restful Veterans Day on Wednesday, and that you continue to wear your masks, wash your hands, keep yourself safe, and practice social distancing. Thank you.