
Distance Education Newsletter
Kapi‘olani Community College | August 2019
Welcome Back!
RECHARGE 2019
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.
Syllabus Template
Free Software Tools
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:
Migrating Laulima Content
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:
Laulima Tips (Advanced)
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?
ProctorU Update
“[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,
Create an account (select Kapiʻolani as your institution)
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.Congratulations, TOPP Fall 2019 Cohort!
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!
Campus Technology Award
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!
What We Are Reading (or Listening to) Now
The Teaching Online Podcast (TOPcast), University of Central Florida
Google Adds Tools for Grading, Plagiarism Detection, Campus Technology
Uneven Standards Hamper Online Education the World Over, Campus Technology
Re: Your Recent Email to Your Professor, Inside Higher EdThe Friendly Faces of the DE Implementation Team
Helen Torigoe
htorigoe@hawaii.edu, x9855
Jamie Sickel
jsickel@hawaii.edu, x9849
Melissa Nakamura
mchar@hawaii.edu, x9152
Nadine Wolff
nwolff@hawaii.edu, x9787
Kelli Nakamura
kellinak@hawaii.edu, x9420
Leigh Dooley
ldooley@hawaii.edu, x9703