Faculty Online Resources

Apps for Faculty Online Resources

CCC TechConnect Zoom in Canvas

CCC TechConnect Zoom is a videoconferencing tool that allows you to communicate and collaborate online in real-time using text, video, and audio. As a moderator or participant, you can speak, share webcam video, chat, screen-share, use whiteboard tools, conduct meetings, record meetings, and deliver presentations. CCC TechConnect Zoom can operate on PCs, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

PopeTech in Canvas

Pope Tech is an accessibility remediation tool available to instructors in Canvas. This tool provides instructors with a quick and simple way to check for and fix certain accessibility concerns in Canvas content.

Pronto in Canvas

Pronto is an easy-to-use communication platform that scales for large organizations. It provides a means of synchronous chat/video/audio/images, much like your own group phone messages, with the only course enrolled students in your Pronto group. Access is from the Pronto app or Canvas course shell.

Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 is available free for SAC faculty. Use online versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint. Share and save documents, spreadsheets and presentations online.

NetTutor

NetTutor provides online, real-time tutoring services to students in a wide variety of subject areas. Some subject areas provide 24/7 tutoring service hours

Respondus

Respondus 4.0 is a tool for creating and managing exams that can be published directly to Canvas or printed for paper-based exams. We recommend it's usage if your publisher does not have Canvas formatted exams. It can take formats and create a Canvas usable format.

Proctorio in Canvas

Proctorio is a software that allows student monitoring during an exam by webcam for student observation in a time delay. The software provides identification validation and activity monitoring during an online exam.

ePorfolios

ePorfolios is a Canvas tool available at Santa Ana College where students can portray competency work, including any related artifacts that demonstrate how learning objectives have been met or specific training accomplished.

Canva

Canva is a graphic design site that can be used for flyers, social medias and your Canvas course. Faculty can select graphic templates for their Canvas banner and course card.

Video Tools and Resources for Online Instructions

Explore each tool and learn ways to maximize its utility to create a better video quality and closed captioning. Record lecture content for your classes. Students can re-watch the videos if they were absent and If you are teaching the same lesson to different classes, you can reuse your videos.

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Video Creation Tools

Screencast-O-Matic

Screencast-O-Matic can be used to create screencapture videos. With a microphone and a webcam, you can easily add narration to your screencapture video and customize it.

Screencast-O-Matic Pro

Screencast-O-Matic Pro is also available with an account available through an email request to the DE Office. This tool allows editing of videos and longer length videos.

Video Captioning Tools

Otter.ai

Otter.ai is a tool that can help with creating SRT files for captioning. You can import your video files or record your voice, and as you speak it will create the caption file for your audio.

Rev

Rev is an online service that provides closed captioning, subtitles and transcriptions. This video captioning service captions user created videos, or public videos (YouTube).

3C Media

3C Media Solutions offers captioning of instructional videos for free to faculty and staff of the California Community Colleges System.

Youtube

creates automatically generated captions for all uploaded videos. However, YouTube does not add punctuation and requires more corrections than Otter.ai.

Allow enough time for YouTube automatic captions to be created. This depends on the length of your video. It could be time for a cup of coffee, or overnight for longer videos.

Suggestion Usage: For your own short videos

Steps: Upload Video onto YouTube, let YouTube auto-generate captions, edit punctuation and misspelled words.
Turn around time: At your own convenience, YouTube usually takes less than a day to generate captions.
Caption accuracy: Fairly accurate. YouTube generated captions will require the most editing since it does not capture punctuation and may have misspelled words

Resources:

Instructions on How to Create Google Account and YouTube Channel

Interactive Video Usage Tools

Canvas Studio Video Management Tool

Canvas Studio is a media tool that allows students and instructors to upload, create, edit, manage, share and discuss audio and video files. Existing files can be used or new ones can be created with Studio's capture and editing tools. Canvas Studio media files can be embedded in any course content. This includes modules, assignments, pages, quiz questions, announcement, and other course items.

PlayPosit

PlayPosit is a tool that can be used to add interactive elements to course videos to improve student engagement. Users can turn their videos into “bulbs” that include various interactions like quiz questions, reflections, in-video discussions, and more. Bulbs can be added to Canvas courses as graded assignments or ungraded, formative content.