Canvas Support & Training Options
Looking to improve your Canvas skills over break?
- Through 2/15, MiraCosta faculty have access to multiple daily live online training sessions from Canvas. Sign up for an account using your @miracosta.edu email address and take advantage of this!
- Use some of the extensive support resources for Canvas developed and recommended by our Canvas Transition Team.
- Join the independent study version of our 4-week Introduction to Teaching with Canvas class.
- Once PDP releases the spring Flex week schedule, sign up for some of the many Canvas workshops to be offered that week.
- The 24-7 Canvas support phone number will continue to be available even when our college is closed! For faculty the number is (833) 345-2890 - or just click Help on the left Canvas menu.
Zero Textbook Cost materials
As of this writing, 132 spring classes have been designated as Zero-Textbook Cost (ZTC) and display the logo at left in SURF. MiraCosta also has a standalone webpage listing all ZTC classes. If you are teaching a ZTC class and have not yet designated it as such, see the directions for doing so in SURF.
How is a ZTC class defined? In SB 1359, these are classes “that exclusively use digital course materials that are free of charge to students and may have a low-cost option for print versions.” Such materials “may include open educational resources, institutionally licensed campus library materials that all students enrolled in the course have access to use, and other properly licensed and adopted materials.”
