Fall 2013: CANVAS as a GRADEBOOK as well as ONLINE/HYBRID courses!

Online orientations for faculty and students can be found at the newly-created page at the RTC website, RTC.EDU/elearning.  We will be moving to Canvas for our campus-wide gradebook in Fall 2013. Find out how to use Canvas gradebook and many other useful features for both ground and online courses!


    

Grading in Canvas

Migrating your BRAIN to Canvas...

Here is  a short video on some things to be aware of as you make the migratino from ANGEL to Canvas:
Migrate your BRAIN from ANGEL to Canvas

MIgration to Canvas - a draft timeline

Here is a picture of a draft timeline for our migration to Canvas.  The graph below shows a target date of Fall 2013 to move all of our Angel and Moodle classes to Canvas.

Before we get there we need some training materials and coursework available.  Liz is putting a great deal of effort to get us ready well before the transition.  In addition to this also we need to sort out other important factors (look at the box in the lower left corner).

We will keep you posted on a regular basis as this process evolves.

Changes are coming....

RTC will be moving from Angel to Canvas in 2013. We'll be starting an online learning community to work through questions and getting ourselves ready for the shift...in the meantime, check the updates on the Canvas page, above.

Online vs. Hybrid vs. Enhanced

100% online classes are taught completely via the internet, with no face-to-face class times. 
Hybrid courses replace some of the class meeting time with online work, requiring that students use the internet for portions of the  coursework.
Both online and hybrid courses require a high level of self direction on the part of the student. At RTC, ANGEL is the platform for these courses.  


Enhanced courses are "regular" courses that meet in the classroom. The teacher decides to utilize the web in various ways for homework or in-class work, making use of online materials on a regular or occasional basis.  Incorporating videos from youtube during your course or using Quia activities, for example, makes it enhanced.  


The tabs above give more details about ANGEL along with other sites that are often used by instructors.  They also give instructions about how to create accounts if needed. Comments, suggestions, and questions are welcome!