Get Started: Faculty
Before deciding to teach an online or hybrid course, discuss these opportunities with your dean. Next, explore the following activities to help you to decide if online teaching is for you.
Is online teaching for you?
- Are You Ready to Develop an Online Course?
- Is online teaching right for you? (Self-assessment, requires Flash)
Learn more about online courses
- Talk with colleagues who have experience teaching online/hybrid courses
- Visit and observe an online/hybrid course in the role of a student
- Tour these examples of online courses:
- GEOG 001 DEMO (course site developed by Allison Lenkeit Meezan)
- PHOT 005 DEMO (course site developed by Kate Jordahl)
- Accessibility Compliance for Online Courses
- US History 2
- History of Ancient Civilization
- Tour Canvas as a student - Learn about Canvas from the students' perspective
Hybrid vs Online
Understand the difference between online, hybrid, and on-campus courses in terms of faculty responsibilities, workload, student expectations, etc.
From the California Code of Regulations (CCR) title 5, section 55210 (Overall Distance Education regulations and guidelines) (pdf)
- Distance education courses are defined as courses with 51% or more of instruction that is conducted online.
- Hybrid is not specifically defined in the regulations and guidelines but is implicitly defined as being between 1% and <51%
"Course Definitions" (Foothill College Curriculum Committee agreed on March 9, 2004)
- Web-enhanced Course: An onsite class that requires online access to resources such as an online syllabus, discussion boards, or Internet links (Note: If ANY onsite time is replaced by online time then the course cannot be in this category)
- Hybrid Course: A course that meets both onsite and online
- Online class: A class which meets 100% of the time online with no onsite class time required
Final steps before developing your first online/hybrid course
- Consider developing your course site with a team of colleagues who teach the same course.
- Give yourself at least 6 weeks to prepare for teaching an online or hybrid course for the first time. Your preparation could involve training and course site development.
- Check with your Division dean about scheduling your first online course.
- For your first online/hybrid course, select a course that you have already taught on-campus before.
More...
- Online learning committees - Learn more and participate
- Any questions? Look through the Faculty FAQ first then contact Online Learning staff.
Get certified to use Canvas
Before you can teach online, you need to be certified to use Canvas.
- If you have prior experience using Canvas, notify Foothill Online Learning, otherwise
- Sign up for our online Canvas Certification course.
As a supplement to the Canvas Certification course, we offer in-person workshops every month where you will learn how to navigate the Canvas Certification course. NOTE that attending the in-person workshop does not qualify for certification. You MUST complete the online course unless you have prior experience.
- If you have content from Etudes sites that you may want to use in your Canvas course site, review the Migration course to learn how. NOTE that after you are certifed to use Canvas, you will be granted access to the Migration course.