Making sure our courses comply isn’t just a federal requirement–it is critical to students’ learning and growth, academic success, and knowledge retention.

Our Instructional Designer, Paul, goes through the requirements in the video below.

You can also find more information in Paul’s Building Your Course in Canvas class and on the Department of Education’s website.

Many of you may know that spaces like these exist in Canvas which aren’t dependent on the schedule. Some of them are class-like spaces called “communities”. But some are off-the-book class spaces which (for a mix of the above reasons) are called “source courses”.

A source course is essentially a “course”, “shell”, or “course shell” which is not generated by the credit schedule and which therefore never automatically enrolls or disenrolls any students, and is never automatically published. It is generated by request from a professor, and that professor is initially the only assigned teacher.

Source courses are great for developing course content out of view and harm’s way. They can also be a great way to share entire courses of content between professors without risking anyone interfering with a live class.

With previous learning management systems, source courses were a great way to fish course content out of the stream of time to preserve it from disappearing, especially for cases in which someone only taught a particular course every few years. But with the advent of Canvas, all concluded sections are preserved (in theory) forever. This has made it much easier for people to get into the habit of just copying content from section to section over time, tweaking as they go.

The danger of relying on this habit is that what the credit schedule giveth (in terms of automatically generated sections and teaching assignments) the credit schedule also taketh away — sometimes as a temporary accident and sometimes with no warning. If you’ve been updating your material for an upcoming section in that section, and the section is cancelled or re-assigned, your work could pass out of your reach or beyond anyone’s retrieval before you get a chance to do anything about it.

But if you update your material in a source course, changes in the schedule will never affect it.

The form for requesting the creation of a source course is here.

It’s worth nothing that the form has two purposes: requesting the creation of a source course, and requesting that two or more sections be “merged”. The first field on the form lets you specify which request you’re making.

It’s also worth nothing that the form is structured on the assumption that you are asking for the creation of a source course to develop material for a specific catalogue course (like, for example, ACCT 121) and that the same person will never ask for more than one source source for the same catalogue course.

This does not mean that you can’t ask for more than one source course for the same catalogue course, over time or at the same time. It doesn’t mean you can’t ask for a source course that doesn’t correspond to a specific catalogue course at all! The form is structured the way it is to give some order to the way source courses are typically named, without you or the person creating the source course having to guess about how to name a new one. If you have specific needs for how a new source course is named, just put that in the “Special instructions” field.

More Information about the Equipment

ETC Course Consultation Request Form

Use the online form to complete your proposal. All proposals need to be submitted by 5 p.m. on Friday, May 31. Contact Farrell Hoy Jenab, ext. 4756, if you have questions.

Click here for the guide. 

TEAM TEACHING TRAINING – October 25 or 26, KSU Polytechnic, Salina, KS. 

• Do you have faculty who want to integrate their teaching?  Have you received a KBOR integrating academics grant?  Do you participate in AO-K?  Do you WANT to participate in AO-K????
• If you answered yes to any of the above, click below to register AT NO CHARGE for this workshop!
• Several of YOU indicated a need for this type of training, so here it is!
• This is a Perkins & AEFLA allowable professional development expense!

We all understand the concept, etc., but this workshop will help your faculty with the real mechanics of collaboration, co-teaching, and teaching contextualized curriculum.  (Note – participants choose one day only, workshop is repeated)   Please encourage adult education & CTE faculty and faculty teams to attend!   REGISTRATION deadline is Friday, October 12 and it’s FREE.  Continental breakfast & lunch provided.  Register at this link:  https://bit.ly/2MgHsMN

Hotel block:  Holiday Inn Salina

3145 S 9^th St., Salina, KS 67401

Phone: 785-404-6767; Fax: 785-404-6768. 

PERKINS V WORKSHOP PROVIDED BY BRUSTEIN & MANASEVIT – Wednesday,  October 3, Washburn Institute of Technology Conference Center, (5724 SW Huntoon St, Topeka, KS 66604)

TIME:  1 – 5 p.m.  Plan to bring a data and finance person if you wish, and the new Perkins V handbooks will be provided for all attendees.  No registration necessary. 

 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE – October 8 & 9, Hyatt Regency Wichita

Take a look at the current lineup of pre-conference workshops, keynote speakers, panels & lots of great information!  Please share this information with your department chairs, advisory council members, and local workforce development board members!  Check the schedule and registration here:  https://bit.ly/2NSvQMD     We will also have Perkins, Adult Education, WIOA & funding updates during pre-conference sessions.

When we know more, we’ll create a handy How-To guide here on our website. As always, if you have any questions, feel free to stop by the Ed Tech Center or give us a call!

Concur Travel Request

Traveling on behalf of JCCC? Come learn about the new travel application that we’re rolling out now to begin phasing out the paper TA process. All sessions will be done in a hands-on setting where you can submit travel requests during the session.

Concur Expense Report 

Traveling on behalf of JCCC and ready to submit your expense report? Training sessions are now available through staff development. These sessions will be done in a hands-on training/open lab setting so that you can submit your expense report for travel during the session. Please bring all travel receipts with you to class. If you have not yet traveled, please wait to register for a session that occurs after your trip!

Registration is required for these trainings. For a schedule of upcoming sessions, click here. For questions about registering, please contact staff development at ext. 7654. For enrollment instructions, click here.

For questions about training, please contact Rachel Haynes, ext. 3848 or rhayne12@jccc.edu