eLearning / Canvas
eLEARNING HELP
RTC Teams (live chat): With your @RTC.edu, login to https://teams.microsoft.com and chat with RTC eLearning Admin., Sara Newman and other RTC colleagues using Teams!*Learn about MS Teams Chat here!
Additional support paths include:
Text Message via the chat tool found in the bottom right corner of the college's eLearning, Canvas Login, & Email web pages
Service Desk (portal): https://servicedesk.rtc.edu
Email: servicedesk@rtc.edu
INSTRUCTOR RESOURCES
Self-Paced: Canvas Basics Course - This course offers a certificate of completion and is worth four hours of professional development.
Canvas Instructor Guide - Constantly updated, every question answered.
Canvas for Faculty your go-to resource for Canvas.
Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL) is an integral part of ongoing and extensive professional development for faculty, supporting RTC’s vision of being a premier technical college in Washington State.
CANVAS LOGIN
Enrolled RTC students and employees are asked to login to their Canvas account using a laptop or desktop computer and the Chrome browser for the most optimal Canvas experience.
Login page = https://rtc.edu/canvaslogin
Login credentials = your RTC (email) Account's username & password
ORIENTATION - Take a look at this short Canvas Orientation self-paced course.
eLearning for Faculty
Canvas: Teacher Guides
Canvas: TILT Templates
Delivery Modalities...
Find a lot in Canvas!
RTC is a web-enhanced campus. No matter what kind of course you take, you will be using Canvas often. Canvas is Washington state's premier Higher Education Learning Management System (LMS) from which all courses are distributed online.
GRADES: Find course Assignments, Quizzes distributed in Canvas on your Canvas Grades
CALENDARS: Your Canvas calendar has this information, and will remind you of upcoming due dates as well.
SYLLABUS: Learn what's expected of you in your course, its outcomes, and helpful resources.
END of QUARTER COURSE EVALUATIONS: Students provide course feedback at the end of quarter in the left column of each Canvas course.
4 Course Modalities
Face-to-Face/Web-Enhanced: Class times are designated in the schedule; syllabus, grades, assignments and other course elements available online.
Based on the state’s response to COVID-19: Online/Remote instruction will replace face-to-face instructional time.
Flex: Students can choose how to attend this mode of instruction (on campus or online) each day.
Based on the state’s response to COVID-19: Online/Remote instruction will replace face-to-face instructional time.
Hybrid: A combination of face-to-face meetings and online instruction.
Based on the state’s response to COVID-19:
Hybrid = Online/Remote instruction will replace face to face instructional time
Hybrid A/B = A/B Split – hands-on portion delayed to return to campus time
Online: 100% online. (The modality of an online class will not change.)