Course: COTROnline Faculty Help Manual
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Welcome to
COTROnline Faculty Help Manual
On this page you will find a series of directions for helping you navigate the website and develop your courses.
To find information quickly, Open All, then use Ctrl-F to search
If you can't find the help you need here, please contact the COTROnline Help Desk for assistance. Contact information can be found at the bottom of every site page.
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Check & Update as needed
Course Outline Link: https://sharepoint.cotr.bc.ca/outlines/Course%20Outlines/ABCD123.pdf- update with course ID (e.g. MATH111, HCA107, etc.)
- links to the official course outline on SharePoint; identified as mandatory by Doug McLachlan, VP Academic in 2014
Course Start Date- If you have extra sections at the start of your course page (e.g. course resources, assignment information, etc.), you will need to move your start date back one week for each extra section.
Extra Blocks- The ILP integration is adding extra blocks to the left-hand column in courses. Until we find a solution, these need to be removed manually. Directions are here. For more detailed information about using and configuring course blocks, click here
- Check grade book categories are set to reflect course outline to protect against grade challenges
- DO NOT delete ILP created groups (they look like this: ABCD-102-OL01R (CS130056) )
- Create parent Groups for sections that have R, D and/or I designations so students within a section can interact with each other
- Use for discussions, group projects
- Use with Restrictions to separate different sections if you have a multi-section course
- copy as needed; directions for copying can be found here
- use whenever students are required to create an account on a site outside the College of the Rockies network; most important if the site is located outside Canada.
- provides the informed consent component required by both the federal and BC Privacy & Freedom of Information legislation
Student Success & Academic Integrity Books - updates are available with broken links removed
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Open all
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Instructions: Clicking on the section name will show / hide the section.
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Navigation, Editing, & Layout Resources
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Course Planning & Development Process
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Practical Design - Editing & Layout
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Accidentally delete something; not a problem, deleted items can be retrieved for up to six days after they were deleted.
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Course Users, Groups, Groupings, Course Visibility, Grade Book, & Grading
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Communication Tools - MS Teams, Messaging, Forums, Email
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The College has licensed Teams for students, so they can use it's fully.
To use Teams fully, your computer needs a webcam, microphone, and speaker/headset.
The College currently supports the Join by Link option.
If you use the Join by Phone option, you would need prior approval for the costs to be covered.
If you have problems with Teams, please contact the IT Help Desk, local 3702
MS Teams Introductory Workshop
MS Teams for Teaching & Learning
Brought to you by Microsoft EduDay:
- Build your Collaborative Online Learning Environment
- Encourage Collaboration with Group Work and Team-based activities
- Supporting the transition to hybrid learning environments
- Assessment and Feedback
- Inclusive and Accessible Learning for Every Student
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Course Activity Modules - Assignments, Forums, Glossaries, HotPot, Lessons, Quizzes, etc.
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Add this to ALL your activities to help your students & to save you time
Directions for uploading a file can be found here. (modify this link, so it points to the appropriate directions in the Student Help Manual)
If you need additional help, please send an email to cotronline@cotr.bc.ca
Include:
- Your student ID
- The course number: PSYC 101-01 (modify as appropriate)
- Activity: Assignment #1 (modify as appropriate)
- Brief description of your problem
- Your contact information - phone & email address
- A couple of dates with times that you are available - check the COTROnline Help Desk hours at the bottom of the page.
You will get a Teams invitation for one of the dates/times you provide and someone at the COTROnline Help Desk will contact you to provide help.
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Go through the activity to the end
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Receive a grade
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Multimedia Tools - Video (Kaltura), H5P, Game Activities, LinkedIn Learning, Wikis
IMPORTANT: Adding Kaltura files - if you get bumped out of COTROnline when uploading a video file to Kaltura, try a different browser.
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Games Activity Information
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Complete the activity
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Complete the activity
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Complete the activity
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Adding External Content to a Course - URLs, Files, Images
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Grade Book
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Intercultural & Indigeniziation
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Student Success & Academic Honesty Tools
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Curriculum Planning & Development
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Accessibility
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Learning Technology Workshops, Documents, etc
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Structuring your Online Course: Key Principles and Practices
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Welcome to this module on online course design!
This module will introduce you to the important elements of online course design as they pertain to you and your students. What matters in regard to you are essential questions you must ask yourself before you begin structuring your course for online delivery. What matters in regard to your students is the major shift in their learning habits from the F2F classroom to the online learning classroom that comes with big trade-offs in how they learn. Here's an opportunity to stop doing what doesn't work and do more of what does.
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Delivering your Online Course: Key Principles and Practices
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Welcome to this module on online course delivery!This module focuses on key principles and practices of delivering a course online. By fostering a safe climate for students to engage and explore, and by building presence, voice and community in diverse ways, you can leverage both synchrounous and asynchrounous environments to inspire, motivate and challenge them.
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Open Education Resources
Table of contents
- Logging in and out of COTROnline
- Finding Your Courses
- My Dashboard - Customizing
- Updating Your Newly Restored Course
- COTROnline - Interpreting the Icons
- Text Editor Icons 3.9
- Curriculum Planning & Development
- Best Practices in Course Design: The technical and user-friendly aspects - Workshop Recording
- Accessibility & Course Design
- Intercultural & Indigeniziation
- Encouraging Academic Honesty
- Structuring your Online Course: Key Principles and Practices
- Delivering your Online Course: Key Principles and Practices
- Engagement & Collaboration Tools - Workshop Recording
- Recycle Deleted Activities & Resources - 3.5
- Activity Completion & Restriction to Simplify Life - Workshop Recording
- Open Weeks/Topics Automatically - 3.5
- Activity Completion - How & Why to Set - 3.5
- Restrict Access - How & Why
- Stealth Activities - Directions for Adding - 3.5
- Copy Content Between Courses
- Adding & Removing Blocks
- My Dashboard
- Using Completion & Restriction
- Microsoft Teams Video Training
- MS Teams for Class Collaboration or In a Signature
- Notifications - Turning Them Off & On
- How to add the latest announcement block in your course.
- Messaging system - How to remove contacts & messages - 3.5
- Messaging a Class
- Discussion Forums - Setting Up & Using
- It Resources Available If You Need To Work From Home
- Assignment Activity
- Disussion Forums - Setting Up & Using
- Glossaries
- Lesson Activity - Workshop Recording
- Lesson Activity
- Quizzes & Question Bank Structure
- Respondus LockDown Browser Setup Manual
- Sample Quiz / Exam
- Wikis for Collaboration - Workshop Recording
- Student Generated Flashcards using the Database Activity
- Feedback Activity
- Using Video - Why & How
- Kaltura Resources - Using Kaltura to upload a Video or Audio File
- Using Kaltura for Video - Introductory & Advanced Workshops
- Kaltura/Moodle: My Media (Sharing video & other media files) - directions from Royal Roads University
- Using Kaltura - directions from Indiana University
- H5P - the Basics
- Crossword
- Cryptex
- Hangman
- Hidden Picture
- Millionaire
- Snakes and Ladders
- Sudoku
- Sample Glossary (used for above games)
- Adding LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) Resources
- Wikis for Collaboration - Workshop Recording
- Glossary Activity
- Course Design / Development Help - 3.5
- Educational Innovation Guide: Teaching Transitions & Academic Continuity LibGuide
- Teaching Effectively During Times of Disruption (Google Doc from Standford University)
- Best Practices in Course Design: The technical and user-friendly aspects - Workshop Recording
- Curriculum Development Tools
- Engagement & Collaboration Tools - Workshop Recording
- K-12 Documents & Resources