GOLF: Get Online Fast: Training and Support

Offered daily, this comprehensive training webinar is intended for instructors who plan to use LockDown Browser and/or Respondus Monitor with online exams. 

https://web.respondus.com/webinars/

Review full-length instructor training: Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor

VWCC Instructional and Educational Technology (IET) Services offers Faculty and Staff training and tutorials: Canvas, Zoom, Microsoft Office, Adobe DC, Designing an Accessible Syllabus, connecting to the Wi-Fi, and much, much more.  Visit: https://www.virginiawestern.edu/iet-services/faculty-staff-tutorials-training/

New to VWCC? Visit: https://www.virginiawestern.edu/iet-services/faculty-staff-tutorials-training/new-employee-technology-orientation/

The VCCS also has an unlimited subscription to Go2Knowledge's catalog of webinars and trainings. Simply create an account and you will have access to over 130 recordings:

http://www.go2knowledge.org/vccs

All VWCC faculty and staff are able to access the following Canvas resources:

• What Canvas is and what it offers: Canvas Overview Video
• Getting Started Videos (recordings from Canvas, great introduction to get started)
  • Welcome to Canvas
  • Course Basics
• Written Canvas guide with step-by-step tutorials
• Canvas Video Guide (Videos)
• Support: For Canvas, being easy to use is about more than having all the right tools in all the right places. It’s about teachers, students, and schools using the LMS to do what they need to do—and then using it to do even more. If you ever need help, make sure you utilize the 24/7/365 Live Help. This support line is for students and faculty.
  • (877) 875-8425
  • support@instructure.com

10 Ways to Help Your Students Cope with the Transition to Virtual Learning
It’s About Much More Than Just the Technology

by Tsedal Neeley
March 19, 2020

If you’re concerned about quickly transitioning to the virtual classroom, you are not alone. Educators and students around the globe are settling in—at home—to finish out the school year in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. For many, the digital classroom is a completely new environment. But there’s good news: studies show that learning online is just as effective as learning in the physical classroom, as long as you prepare yourself—and your students—to succeed....

To read this article https://hbsp.harvard.edu/inspiring-minds/10-ways-to-help-your-students-cope-with-the-transition-to-virtual-learning

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Chris Porter
Dean of Learning Resources & Online Learning
Email: cporter@virginiawestern.edu
Phone: (540) 857-6697
Carrie Halpin
Instructional Designer & Technologist
Email: chalpin@virginiawestern.edu
Phone: (540) 857-6636
Erin Leftwich
Instructional Technologist & Canvas Administrator
Email: eleftwich@virginiawestern.edu
Phone: (540) 857-6687

One-on-one Instructional Design Consultation

Faculty can schedule one-on-one support time with Dr. Carrie Halpin, Instructional Designer. This sessions are meant to provide assistance to faculty on moving course content, activities and assignments into an online environment. Carrie can help with developing new online learning activities that meet course objectives, designing online assessments (tests/quizzes and other assignments), and identifying other instructional technologies to support teaching and learning in the online environment.

Click here to book your appointment:  https://carriehalpin.youcanbook.me

During sign-up, please select your meeting preference: via Zoom or on the phone.

Quality Matters (QM)

https://www.qualitymatters.org/index.php/professional-development 

Online Learning Consortium (OLC) LEARN: Courses, Workshops, etc.:

https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn/

Online Teaching Certificate Programs: Which Program is Right For Me? (onlinelearningconsortium.org)