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Book an appointment - I enjoy being a thought partner and helping faculty design great online courses.

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NEW! AI Community of Practice (Fall 2025)

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NEW! AI Community of Practice (Fall 2025)

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Join a community of YCCD faculty in exploring teaching and learning in the context of AI. This CoP offers a supportive space for discussing ways to reframe our relationship to emerging tech within the contexts of academic integrity and equity. Workshop registrants will receive a free copy of the book The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI by Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger. (You may request the book even if unable to attend CoP meetings).

Flex Registration

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The Opposite of Cheating | Academic Integrity

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A book with a positive and practical approach to academic integrity, academic misconduct, teaching and learning in higher education. The Opposite of Cheating is written by Tricia Bertram Gallant and David Rettinger.

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Download and print a copy of the full Course Design rubric.  Course Reviewers at Yuba College conduct peer review of courses to determine if all criteria in the rubric are either aligned or exemplary; if so, the course is "validated." If any criteria are noted as incomplete, reviewers provide specific feedback to help guide revisions.

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Check out The CVC-OEI Course Design Rubric contains the online course design standards developed and adopted by the CVC-OEI. The Rubric is intended to establish standards relating to course design, interaction and collaboration, assessment, learner support, and accessibility in order to ensure the provision of a high-quality learning environment that promotes student success and conforms to existing regulations.

In the development of these standards, the CVC-OEI team was fortunate to have access to significant work already undertaken in this area by @ONE, the CCC Distance Education Coordinator's group, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC), and the CCC Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) along with a variety of other local college and nationally established standards.

Current Rubric Version: April 2020

We periodically update or revise the Rubric based on feedback from reviewers or changes to regulatory requirements concerning distance education. The most recent version of the CVC-OEI Course Design Rubric is the Apri l 2020 version. You can find the revision date (April 2020) at the bottom of the cover page. Check out this explanation for all of the changes made. The CVC-OEI Course Design Rubric is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International License.

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Course Design Resources

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The CCC Online Education Initiative (OEI) Online Course Design Rubric.

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Check out The CVC-OEI Course Design Rubric contains the online course design standards developed and adopted by the CVC-OEI. The Rubric is intended to establish standards relating to course design, interaction and collaboration, assessment, learner support, and accessibility in order to ensure the provision of a high-quality learning environment that promotes student success and conforms to existing regulations.

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These CVC created modules provide the "what and why" for each criterion in the OEI rubric. Additionally, each page provides insight into what reviewers look for in a course to determine alignment.

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@ONE's Regular and Substantive Interaction playlist

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@ONE's Regular and Substantive Interaction playlist

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State and federal regulations refer to the need for "regular and substantive interactions" (RSI) in online courses (to distinguish them from correspondence courses). The specific guidelines were updated in 2022 and replace the prior language of "regular and effective contact."

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Many PD courses are available from @ONE and are great learning opportunities and chances to connect with CCC faculty statewide. @ONE also offers webinars for CCC faculty each semester - this fall they are focused on AI. Also check out their YouTube channel for past webinars and other helpful video resources.

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Register for an upcoming course, sign up for a webinar, or access one of our many video resources. Topics range from Regular Substantive Interaction (RSI), to e

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This open Canvas "course" provides many resources, examples, and more to help you successfully validate your online course. It is also the place with archived workshop modules and some self-paced learning options.

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These training modules have been developed by Cindi Sargent and are eligible for flex credit.

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Self-Paced Training: YC Course Design Forum

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These self-paced trainings include opportunities to work at your own pace while still receiving personalized feedback and (for some activities) benefiting from and contributing to a learning community of faculty. Training can be completed at your convenience up until the week before the semester’s flex deadline.

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This webinar walks through both the page-level PopeTech tool and the course level dashboard.

You can also reference this for instructors guide.

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PopeTech Accessibility Guide & Dashboard Canvas Demo

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PopeTech Tutorials: accessible Canvas content

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PopeTech Tutorials: accessible Canvas content

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Playlist of video demos for the Pope Tech accessibility guide tool in Canvas to ensure your content is accessible.

Note: PopeTech alerts to the presence of documents (say Word or PPT) but cannot give any info about the accessibility of the files. If you use a Word doc syllabus, check out this Playlist from @ONE. If you use many files throughout your course it would be best to meet with Cindi Sargent to discuss and ensure you can meet accessibility requirements for this type of content.

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Pope Tech has two accessibility tools to use with Canvas:

The second tool is the Accessibility Dashboard, which includes the Accessibility Guide along with three reporting dashboards.

Below are help videos and articles for both the Accessibility Guide and Canvas Accessibility Dashboards.

Accessibility Guide Documentation

Accessibility Dashboard Documentation

Want to learn more about Pope Tech's Canvas accessibility tools?
Learn more about Canvas Accessibility Guide and Dashboard features
Learn about how to access the Admin dashboard and use each of its widgets.

Learn how to navigate to accessibility settings, enable current and new courses, and complete a Full Sync to fix issues.

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Resources for the Pope Tech Canvas LMS integration.

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Course Design Rubric Examples from Mesa College

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Course Design Rubric Examples from Mesa College

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There are many great examples of the "rubric in practice" on this site.

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MOST Toolkit - Course Design Rubrics - In Practice

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Use the links below to explore the CVC Course Design Rubric and the Peralta Equity Rubric (Section E). At each link you will find examples and practices from your Mesa colleagues.

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Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) resources

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Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) resources

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It makes a huge impact when students have low or zero cost textbooks on Day 1 of a course. This post links to another Padlet board with more information and a set of resources to explore. One resource, the ASCCC collections by discipline, can be a good place to look for adoptable Canvas shells that include OER. Many of these shells follow good design principles in line with the CVC-OER Rubric criteria.

Connect with Librarian Elena Flacks if you're interested in learning more about opportunities to develop or remix OER, an initiative supported by grant monies.

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This checklist does not replace the CVC-OEI Rubric; you will notice overlap in the guidelines. The checklist provides useful embedded links to Canvas guides or other resources and has been updated to also incorporate recommendations for designing with mobile in mind.

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POCR Inspiration & Examples of Course Revisions

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POCR Inspiration & Examples of Course Revisions

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Foothill College faculty share out their POCR experience and some examples of course revisions in the module titled "Peer Online Course Video Exemplars."

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Each blog post briefly describes 2 course design tips and provides resources or how-to information to help you implement each easily in your courses.