Random thoughts of an adjunct professor
Mar. 22nd, 2020 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arleneriosSince I participated in that Zoom Boot Camp Session, I was also added as a student to the Remote Ready Boot Camp for Instructors in Canvas. It has been, err, interesting... because I realized that even though you may be a F2F professor, and you get your course online for backup, that doesn't mean that other professors will do the same things you have been doing for the last 8 years.
When I was teaching F2F, I also used my online platform to have it as a backup for extra exercises and quizzes (And I was secretly starting to think how I could do testing online without the department being the wisest, LOL). In UIW they wanted us to use Blackboard to keep the syllabus there and use it for any reference material, and when I mention using it for quizzes, my dept chair kind of frown at me at the possibility (I still did it though); in SAC, basically you could do whatever you wanted with your online course, but at that time I was busy getting certified to teach online to really use Canvas for anything. Once I started to teach online, from the get-go, I put my exams on Canvas, even with the mandate that I had to see my students F2F for testing, and then it was only for the final exam that I needed to see them (and all this time I had students complaining about why they needed to come to SAC for tests or the final, but that was the mandate). And 8 years later, I FINALLY don't have to ever see my students F2F. EVERYTHING is 100% online. It took 8 years but yay!
So back to the Remote Ready Boot Camp for Instructors. OMG. When you see an announcement saying: "you MUST publish your Canvas course for your students to have access to it," that's when you realize that 1) most F2F teachers couldn't, wouldn't, bother to learn Canvas, and 2) is the college, any college really, ready to go 100% online with so little time to prepare???
I have the advantage of having taught online for 8 years, but I cannot imagine being thrown into this environment when you don't even know you have to publish your course so students can see it.
Good thing I am finishing this week (one week later than originally intended).
When I was teaching F2F, I also used my online platform to have it as a backup for extra exercises and quizzes (And I was secretly starting to think how I could do testing online without the department being the wisest, LOL). In UIW they wanted us to use Blackboard to keep the syllabus there and use it for any reference material, and when I mention using it for quizzes, my dept chair kind of frown at me at the possibility (I still did it though); in SAC, basically you could do whatever you wanted with your online course, but at that time I was busy getting certified to teach online to really use Canvas for anything. Once I started to teach online, from the get-go, I put my exams on Canvas, even with the mandate that I had to see my students F2F for testing, and then it was only for the final exam that I needed to see them (and all this time I had students complaining about why they needed to come to SAC for tests or the final, but that was the mandate). And 8 years later, I FINALLY don't have to ever see my students F2F. EVERYTHING is 100% online. It took 8 years but yay!
So back to the Remote Ready Boot Camp for Instructors. OMG. When you see an announcement saying: "you MUST publish your Canvas course for your students to have access to it," that's when you realize that 1) most F2F teachers couldn't, wouldn't, bother to learn Canvas, and 2) is the college, any college really, ready to go 100% online with so little time to prepare???
I have the advantage of having taught online for 8 years, but I cannot imagine being thrown into this environment when you don't even know you have to publish your course so students can see it.
Good thing I am finishing this week (one week later than originally intended).
