Faculty Professional Development & Resources

Faculty PD & Resources

Professional Development

Professional Development Flex hours for Canvas can be earned through on-site Canvas Open Labs, Workshops and through the online training courses.

Spring 2023 Distance Education Professional Development Training

PD week schedule

Spring 2023 Distance Education Professional Development Training Schedule with Links

SAC Lunch - Join us during lunch and have an informal faculty discussion about engaging our students!

For: Online, Remote Learning, New and Experienced Faculty

Details: Bring your lunch and join us on Zoom (12:00pm - 12:30pm)

Spring 2023 Coming Soon

Faculty can claim 1/2 hour of flex credit for each session

SAC Lunch Archived

Trainings

Training

Screencast-O-Matic - Screencast-O-Matic can be used to create screencapture videos. Learn how to capture your computer screen, along with recording yourself using your webcam and turn that into a video which can be uploaded to YouTube.

Tuesdays & Thursdays at 2:00pm. Contact Joe Pacino & Brian Yoder to RSVP for the training to receive the Zoom link.

Training

Training opportunity on ConferZoom for Faculty. Each training focuses on the basic of ConferZoom although trainer may be able to answer some advanced questions as well.
Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Tuesdays, and Thursdays 9:00am - 10:00am
Each sessions is approximately 40 minutes with 20 minutes at the end for questions.

Remote Instruction Certification

Remote Instruction Certification

Upon completion, faculty will earn 24 flex hours.

Faculty can earn an additional 6 flex hours for the Demonstrated Accessibility Badge. This badge is strongly advised and will assist in the Canvas Silver Certificate.

Online Teaching Certification

Distance Education Online Certification
Chair or Dean approval is required for enrollment.

Upon completion, faculty can earn 2.5 CEUs* for the Online Teaching Certificate (OTC), or 120 flex hours.

*Faculty earned 2.5 CEUs can be used and counted toward a column change as long as the units are earned after their master's degree. Only faculty with master's degree can claim 2.5 CEUs.

SAC has adopted the CCC @ONE Certificate in Online Teaching & Design, using the CVC-OEI Course Design Rubric (PDF).

SAC Faculty Training

Complete badges and certificates online in Canvas.

	*Hours Earned:*	*Suggested for:*
Canvas Bronze Badge	10 hours	Classroom & Online/Hybrid
Canvas Silver Badge	10 hours	Remote Instruction & Online/Hybrid
Canvas Gold Badge	3 hours	Online/Hybrid
Canvas Bronze Certificate	2 hours	Classroom & Online/Hybrid
Canvas Silver Certificate	10 hours	Remote Instruction & Online/Hybrid
Video Creation Course	2 hours	Online/Hybrid
Accessibility Course	3 hours	Classroom, Remote Instruction, and Online/Hybrid
Demonstrated Accessibility Course	6 hours	Classroom, Remote Instruction andOnline/Hybrid
Virtual Conferencing	1 hour	Remote Instruction & Online/Hybrid

How to Claim Badges (Certificates)

Here are Instructions on How to Claim Electronic Badges

To Claim Professional Development Flex Hours (Faculty & Staff)

Please note: If you would like to track the time you spent attending any training from external providers please record your time using the External Training option on the Vision Resource Center website, and the time will be reflected on your Learning Transcript. Link for the Vision Resource Center website can be found on the Professional Development Website. If you have any questions, please contact Professional Development Office.

For information on claiming Professional Development Flex Hours, please visit the Santa Ana College Professional Development Website.

Policies

Accessibility Overview(pdf)	Distance Education Offsite Proctoring Form (pdf)
Accessibility Checklist (pdf)	Distance Education Faculty Evaluation for Online Classes (pdf)
Beginning of semester checklist (pdf)	Online Student Evaluation Form (pdf)
Captioning Guidance (pdf)	DE Faculty Handbook (pdf)
Curriculum DE Addendum (pdf)	Regular Effective Contact (pdf)
Curriculum DE Addendum Sample (pdf)	Recommended Course Outline Additions (pdf)

Distance Education Advisory Group

Our Distance Education Advisory Group is an Academic Senate work group. The purpose is to assist our Distance Education program in meeting the needs of our online students and faculty teaching in Distance Education by developing procedures and training that support our mission in Distance Education.

Professional Development Canvas Training Schedules Archive