New RTC Employee Canvas accounts are automatically generated within one business day after Human Resources (HR) has added their RTC employment information in ctcLink.

Canvas Login & Support: New employees receive their welcome package from Human Resources and are asked to activate their RTC (email) account. They then use those same credentials to login to their new Canvas account, https://rtc.edu/canvaslogin. Canvas support paths are provided on the same page, if needed.

Faculty develop curriculum in their own manually created development (DEV) course shells. Please your find "How To" steps, an under 2-minute video, and FAQs below.

Faculty gained access to next quarter's official Canvas courses on March 6, 2023 (6:00am)

Fully registered students will be listed in your Canvas course, but they do not have access to the Canvas course until it's published 3 weekdays prior to the start of the quarter. NOTE: These add'l days are not instructional days.

Student Canvas accounts & course access

New RTC Student Canvas accounts are automatically generated within one business day of full registration.

Canvas Login & Support: New students receive a welcome message from Enrollment Services and are asked to activate their RTC (email) Account. They then use those same credentials to login to their new Canvas account, https://rtc.edu/canvaslogin. Canvas support paths are provided on the same page, if needed.

Students gain access to next quarter's published Canvas courses 3 weekdays prior to the start of the quarter on Thursday, March 30, 2023 (7:00am).

NOTE: Early access allows students to review their course syllabi, their teacher's welcome message, and the free Getting Started @RTC course and its activities.

CANVAS DEVELOPMENT COURSES

RTC Canvas users with faculty-level permissions may manually-create as many development (DEV) courses as needed to prepare curriculum for each quarter.

FAQ's & How to Manually Create DEV Canvas Shells
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1. Logged into your RTC Canvas account, please find on your Canvas Dashboard your new Start a New Course (button) -- located near the bottom of the right-side column in a desktop computer's layout.
2. Please use this development (DEV) course naming convention:
  - DEV - Your course or collaboration space name - your full name. If you want to put a quarter (example W23.) on it, that's great too; it's up to you.
3. Click the Create (button) and you're then taken directly into your new development course's Settings page. It really is that easy! Please watch this under 2 minutes video with closed captions for more information

Frequently asked questions (Q) and answers (A)

- Q: How many DEV shells can I make?
- A: As many as you need. Please use our naming convention (step #2 above) to help us manage our files
- Q: Will my students be added to the courses I create?
- A: No. The teacher of record and their students are automatically added to each official RTC Canvas course via our Enrollment Services registration and WA ctcLink processing.
- Q: How do I move what I've developed into my official student-populated courses?
- A: There are several ways and our favorites are via Copy Course and Import an Exported .imscc file. We're happy to help provide a workshop or one-on-one support to go over best practices that'll save you a lot of time removing old content from a previous course and/or prevent duplications of elements from occurring quarter-to-quarter
- Q: May I share my DEV Canvas shells with my Dean, TA, Observers, and Faculty colleagues?
- A: Yes. To invite colleagues into a Canvas shell, they need an RTC Canvas account. You can use the email address they have in their Canvas or their ctcLinkID# to add them to your Canvas shells.
- Q: How do I delete the DEV shells I've created?
- A: Please use your RTC Service Desk Support Portal https://servicedesk.rtc.edu to request deletion of your Canvas course development shells, as desired.

FACULTY CHECKLIST

Are your upcoming quarter's courses available to you in Canvas?

If not, please contact your program coordinator or dean to confirm the status of course (whether it's running or not) and that you are listed as the 'teacher of record' in the new ctcLink system. If you're correctly listed there, please submit a request for eLearning support and provide your ctcLink ID# and your course numbers.

Reminders & Updates

ALL STUDENT-ENROLLED COURSES ARE PUBLISHED 3 BUSINESS DAYS PRIOR TO THE START OF A QUARTER

Welcome (page)

Include your instructor welcome video
Examples & steps provided by RTC Faculty In Service 2020!

Navigation (menus)

The (free) Getting Started @ RTC (self-enrollment link) is updated and linked each quarter. You and your students can find it in your Canvas account's fly-out navigation menu and in all of your course navigation menus. Its self-enrollment link is also updated quarterly on the RTC Canvas Login page and Student Welcome Letter.
- The HELP (icon) button, located at the bottom of your Canvas global navigation menu, provides everyone with the most current Canvas Release Notes as based upon your Canvas role.
- News & Events is linked in your Canvas account and also in each course menu.

Syllabus (template)

- A brand new Syllabus template is ready for you to update in your course(s). Please watch this support video, https://youtu.be/CDQQVea45s0 and let us know if you need help with yours!

Adding Curriculum

Import curriculum judiciously, so as not to overwrite the updated syllabus template. NOTE: If you accidentally overwrite our most current syllabus template, find and copy over this most current RTC (TILTed) Syllabus

1. Choose your favorite way to import your curriculum into Canvas!
2. Update due dates and announcements
  - Unpublish modules you don't want students to see until they're ready

How to pre-set weekly announcements: How to add Announcements

1. Please consider adding a couple of (Week Zero) Getting Started @RTC student activities to your course
2. Provide a technology & support student survey: Feel free to import & use this!
3. Check all of your course content's behavior via your Student View
4. Post a welcome announcement and/or welcome video for your students
5. Provide students with Backup Strategies for online work

Waitlisted Students

Waitlisted students who need access to course materials while they await full registration can be provided temporary public (read only) access when a teacher implements these steps:

1. Login to your Canvas course, select Settings, set Visibility as Public, Save, provide course URL (web address) to waitlisted student(s).
2. Once the student is fully enrolled reset your course Settings to Visibility as Course.

Panopto Videos

To reuse your Panopto server videos from quarter to quarter from your My Folder please review these (2) resources from the good folks at Panopto:

FERPA: What all faculty should know

Review this short self-paced training in Canvas. FERPA Questions? Contact RTC Director of Enrollment Services.

ACADEMIC CALENDAR

Viewing Class Rosters (via ctcLink)

Before each new quarter begins, please login to your WA ctcLink account using these steps you can view each of your class rosters..

Communication: Some students don't update their ctcLink contact information so we're not guaranteed a perfectly current personal student email address. However, all students and employees must use their RTC (email) Account's login credentials to use Canvas and several other RTC systems and services. Please be sure to look for and make clear in your syllabus your preferred methods of communicating, how quickly a student can expect a response, your office hours of availability.

STUDENT WELCOME MESSAGE

RTC's eLearning team publishes all Canvas course shells a few days before an upcoming quarter's official start so students can begin preparing (find the planned publishing date at the top of this page). Welcome them with 3-2-1 Start! activities, a welcome video, and a course message or announcement.

See how to create/update a Welcome Video: Videos: Create and Share

PUBLISHING EARLY

Student success rates are raised when they have access to course information prior to the start of a quarter; allowing time to ask questions and prepare before a quarter begins. Your eLearning Administrator publishes all Canvas courses three business days prior to the start of the official quarter.

Course Consistency Helps Students Succeed

Similar navigation and use of modules help students spend more time learning.

NOTE: Your Canvas Faculty Resources and Counselor Connect navigation buttons are not visible to students

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