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Course: COTROnline Faculty Help Manual | COTR-DEV
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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.
To share help resources with students, please use the content found in the Online Student Help Manual as this is catered for student information.
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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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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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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