Distance Education Newsletter

We missed you! You're positively glowing from your refreshing summer, and it's going to be so fun to share your renewed energy with your new students. We're in Week 0, and whether or not you choose to open your online class before the first day of classes, this is a good week to reach out to your students. A quick email or announcement saying "aloha" and letting students know you're looking forward to working with them can make a big difference.

Friday, August 30, 2019

Join our Kapi‘olani ‘ohana for a day of learning, food and fellowship as we kick off the 2019-2020 academic year with a bang! Please register to help us plan. Some sessions have limited seats.

Get your copy of the Kapi‘olani CC Syllabus Template! As a reminder, this is not a required template - you are free to use and adapt this resource as little or as extensively as you like. It is ADA accessible as is, and you can embed it directly into your Laulima course site to make updating your syllabus a breeze (watch this quick 2-minute tutorial to find out how)!

Check out these free and useful software tools available for engaging your students or increasing your productivity.

Software Licenses available to UH Faculty & Staff:

• Adobe Acrobat Pro DC is available to all UH faculty and staff until Nov 27, 2021. Go to UH Adobe Site License page and click “Request Account.” The Pro version will allow you to edit PDFs.

• LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com) is available to all UH faculty and staff until Sep 30, 2019. Go to UH LinkedIn Learning Site License page and click “Request Account.”

• McAfee Anti-virus software is free to all UH faculty, staff, and students. See UH Computer Virus and Threat Information page.

Software Licenses available to ​Kapiʻolani Faculty & Staff:

Please submit a request in RESOLVE ticket system to get your own license of

• Padlet Pro - a digital collaboration tool

• Zoom Pro - a web-conferencing tool

Free to students and educators:

• Microsoft Office 365 Education

The Laulima 12 upgrade has made it even easier to import course content from one site to another. When you’re ready to migrate to your future site, you may find this video walkthrough helpful:

What’s on your welcome page?

As the cliché goes, we don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. Does your Laulima Overview page answer these critical questions during your students’ first visit?

• Where am I?

• What am I supposed to do?

• Who can help me?

Welcome your students by providing enough (but not long) directions on the Overview page. You can use our Overview template: Copy/paste the content of the template file, then replace it with your own images and text. You can create your own course banner (a video) or use any of your favorite images. Submit a request if you have questions or need assistance.

“[I want to be] able to take monitored tests online so that [I] do not have to drive across the mountain to take an exam that’s on the computer anyway.” - a ​Kapiʻolani DE student

Did you know that in 2018-2019, our pilot year of ProctorU, 459 ​Kapiʻolani students chose to have their exams proctored online? If you are interested in joining 36 ​kapiʻolani faculty who made 131 exams available through ProctorU, submit a request or plan to attend one of our ProctorU Workshops in September (TBA).

To set up an online exam,

1. Create an account (select ​Kapiʻolani as your institution)

2. Set up an exam with ProctorU

3. Add ProctorU tabs in Laulima

• ProctorU Login page: https://laulima.hawaii.edu/lum/proctoru/kap/ (this link works for Kapiʻolani credit courses only)

• Test-taker Page: http://go.hawaii.edu/fZI

Also see Instructor Handout and Clone Exam Iteration.

Questions? Submit a request or email celtt@hawaii.edu.

Here they are, folks: Kapi‘olani CC's next 10 DE champions! We're excited to welcome the Fall 2019 cohort to the Teaching Online Prep Program (TOPP):

Susan Dik, ENT 130

Shawn Ford, SLT 203B

Boris Bogaczewicz, ITS 144

Nicole Otero, ESL 100

Palani Kelly, HWST 107

Louise Inafuku, FSHE 185

David Mendonsa, EMT 120

Steven Nagata, LAW 102

Larry Fee, PHYL 141

Alfred Seita, BUS 250

TOPP will be co-facilitated by Jamie Sickel (CELTT, instructional designer) and Susan Inouye (LLL, DE faculty mentor) this Fall. If you're interested in joining a future TOPP cohort or applying to co-facilitate TOPP as a DE faculty mentor, watch this space for info. on upcoming TOPP info sessions or contact a member of our DE team!

The Teaching Online Prep Program (TOPP) was recently recognized with the 2019 Campus Technology Impact Award by Campus Technology. Campus Technology is one of higher education's top information sources on the technologies and implementations influencing colleges and universities across the nation. Instructional Designers, Helen Torigoe, Jamie Sickel, and Youxin Zhang were recognized for their contributions in the category of "Teaching and Learning" for their innovative approach of TOPP Equivalencies. For more information, please see the newest edition of Campus Technology found here. A full article will be published in the October edition of the magazine (in print and online version) so stay tuned.

Congratulations to Helen, Jamie, and Youxin for their hard work and innovation to promote student success, learning, and achievement! Please also extend congratulations to our amazing Interim DE Coordinator, Leigh Dooley, as she has been responsible "Equivalencies" part of "TOPP Equivalencies." Great job everyone!

The Teaching Online Podcast (TOPcast), University of Central Florida

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