[Maritez, Michelle, and Kim] Welcome to our homepage!
[Michelle] Follow me. I'll show you how to find your way around our course.
In this course, you are one of 46 participants comprised of STEM faculty and faculty support
experts from 7 institutions. And we've organized this course to maximize your learning.
Over the next six weeks you'll engage in smaller group discussions with your peers,
which will be facilitated by a lead facilitator. Now to ensure that you
always have access to the collective wisdom of our diverse group, we have included a Q&A discussion
where you'll have direct access to all participants and facilitators.
Use the Q&A discussion when you have a topic you want to get more input on
or a general question about the course or your own teaching that you want a quick answer to.
We've also provided you with access to a private institutional group.
So you can have meaningful small group conversations just with your institutional peers.
Now let’s take a look around the course.
Each time you log into, we encourage you to start on our homepage. It will change each week
and point you to the current module. You’ll also find a few other helpful items here. At the top,
you’ll find our most recent announcement. Check there each time to be sure you’re up to date.
Over on the right side of the homepage, you’ll find a To Do list, which is a quick way to
reference upcoming activity due dates. One of my favorite features is the course calendar,
that you can access right here at the top. The course calendar shows when the activities are due
in calendar view. To navigate back to the homepage, use the back button in
your browser. Under the To-Do list, you’ll also find a direct link to your institutional group.
You can also get to that same group from any page in the course
by clicking on the Groups button in the far left course navigation menu.
The homepage also provides you with a link out to a handy course stream, which is like a feed
of all recent activity, and a quick link to your course notifications. You can customize your
notifications in the Account area, accessed in the upper left corner, which is where you can also
upload a profile picture to humanize your Canvas profile. OK. That’s an overview of the homepage.
Now I’ll show you how to get started with week one. For week one, you will complete two modules:
Getting Started and Module 1. From the homepage, select the Start button. This takes you out to
the first page in our Getting Started module. Read the page and then, at the bottom right,
select Next to navigate to the next page in the module, like an eBook.
You also have the option to select Modules in the course navigation menu for a bird’s eye view
of the modules. Select the module’s title bar to close or expand the list of pages. In each one of our modules,
you’ll see a section for Learning Content and Learning Activities. Each of the activities will
be designated with a sparkle icon or a tool box icon, to help you track your work in each module.
In the Getting Started module, you'll notice that there is a requirement to complete one item.
You will need to earn 6 out of 6 points on the Getting Started quiz to complete this requirement.
You can take that quiz as many times as you'd like, by the way. Once you do that, it will unlock
module one for you. This empty circle over here on the right tells me that I haven't completed
that requirement. Once the requirement is completed, a green check mark appears
and module one unlocks. We hope you have a very successful first week in our class.
If you have any questions along the way, you have a couple of options.
You can select discussions in the course navigation menu and post a question in our
Q&A discussion, which is available to everyone in the class. Or you can send a direct message
to your lead facilitator using the Inbox in the far left global navigation menu. See ya soon!
[no sound]