Faculty can help by encouraging students and colleagues to engage in preventative strategies described here: Recommendation for Students, Faculty, and Staff.
If you come in contact with someone experiencing any coronavirus symptoms (e.g. severe respiratory illness with fever, coughing, and difficulty breathing), tell them to self-isolate and to contact a health care provider. Students can contact the College nurse, Naomi Forey (naomi.forey@cloviscollege.edu).
Students and/or faculty may experience some anxiety during this time. Some guidance for managing this anxiety is provided here: Managing Anxiety.
For any students who miss class due to coronavirus symptoms, it is advisable that faculty provide some latitude with regard to their attendance policies. Additionally, faculty should provide the resources necessary to accommodate these students and support their academic progress.
Faculty experiencing symptoms should self-isolate and contact their health care providers. Sick leave should be used for any resulting absences.
The College will host training sessions and offer in-person assistance Monday, 3/16, through Thursday, 3/19. Check your email and the website for an updated schedule.
In the meantime, here is some information. As your course moves online, it must meet the Title 5 requirements of Regular and Effective Contact. Take the time to create a syllabus addendum to include information about how the class will work online:
- Give an overview of how the course will be conducted. How will you send communications to students? Where should students look for content in Canvas? (Maybe modules?). Will there be any major assignments during this time that need to be restructured (like a group assignment)?
- How can students contact you? (Zoom, e-mail, phone)
- When can students contact you? And when will you respond?
- If you have office hours, give students instructions for accessing office hours. Office hours need to be completed using an interactive tool, like Zoom.
- Remember, all instructional materials and videos will need to be accessible, and this includes captioning videos you may use. Unfortunately, the 3C Media grant is not currently available for captioning but Confer Zoom does have auto-captioning and creates a transcript at the end of the recording.
- Do you have an accessibility question? See the Canvas Accessibility Courses for Word, PPT, and PDF to fix specific accessibility errors.
- Check out Teacher's Toolbox
Generally, continuity of instruction can be achieved by using Confer Zoom and Canvas. Think about the adjustments you may need to make to move specific assignments and activities online. Will you need to use parts of Canvas you are not familiar with, like groups or peer review assignments? Do you need to move your exams online?
DE Coordinator, Teresa Ishigaki (Teresa.ishigaki@cloviscollege.edu), and Instructional Designer, Tracy Stuntz (tracy.stuntz@cloviscollege.edu), have created numerous trainings to help faculty with Canvas and Confer Zoom. These trainings are available recorded, online, and face-to-face. Please follow-up directly with them on specific instructional solutions to challenges you might face as you transition.
Finally, here is a helpful link: Teacher's Toolbox
As much as we may struggle to move online, many of our students struggle to use classroom technologies as well. Here are some ways you can begin to prepare them for a transition:
- Ask your students what technologies they have at home. Do they all have access to WiFi? A device? The college has options to help connect students to the necessary equipment to help make them successful. As you plan your instructional activities, remember that some technologies require stronger and faster WiFi than others.
- Practice in class using Zoom and Canvas. Maybe give students a quiz in class or have them submit an assignment to Canvas. Do you require work that is completed with a pencil and paper? There are ways students can submit handwritten documents, and we can strategize if a class specifically needs that functionality. But again, this is something that should be practiced in class prior to an emergency.
- Give students instructions on how to submit assignments. See the Cloviscollege.edu website for specific Canvas instructions for students you can use in your course.
All College-sponsored events and activities have been canceled or postponed. Please check with the organizer.
Committees may meet in-person on-campus or may be managed remotely. Check your email for updates.
Access the Bookstore: Phone 559-325-5253 | EMAIL: 2173mgr@follett.com
Clovis Technology Services department is available for remote support for faculty and staff:
Monday-Thursday 8AM - 6 PM & Friday 8AM - 5 PM
Preferred contact: TechHelp@cloviscollege.edu
Phone contact: 325-5294
When emailing for support, please:
- briefly describe your issue.
- include the best number and time to reach you.
A member of our team will then contact you as soon as we can.
If you are using a Windows 10 computer, we will likely assist you through Quick Assist. Click here to read more about Quick Assist.
If you are sick and or suffering from symptoms similar to Coronavirus you should:
- Self-isolate.
- Notify your primary caregiver, probably through a phone call.
- Inform your manager. Depending on the situation, the manager will inform Darren Cousineau from the District Office, who is the point person to monitor virus-related illness across the district.
