At-A-Glance Programming

Choose Your Journey!

We continue to offer options for faculty and classified staff to engage. Join us for a time of collaboration, conversation and inspiration!

Opening the Feedback Loop

Looking for student feedback before the end of the semester? Use our ready-to-go mid-semester feedback survey, or reach out to our instructional designers to help you gather student feedback on your course design and facilitation. You can customize the type of feedback based on what you are most curious about. 

Learn more about gathering student feedback

Quality Online Teaching and Learning- Level 1

In the course you will complete course activities, readings, and engage in dialogue with your colleagues each week. You are expected to complete all activities within the course, and each activity is designed to acquaint you with the skills necessary to develop your own online course. 

*Required to teach online or hybrid courses

Read the policy behind QOTL Links to an external site.

Training Dates: Sept. 25- Nov. 6

Facilitator: Chris Collins, Distance Education Coordinator, Skyline College.

Have you completed other relevant training/courses and believe you are exempt from QOTL-Level 1?

Please contact Erica Reynolds (reynoldse@smccd.edu), Instructional Technologist, and Tarana Chapple (chapplet@smccd.edu), Dean od the ASLT Division, to request an exemption. Be ready to provide documentation that shows completion of the training/course you believe might be equivalent to QOTL-Level 1. 

Quality Online Teaching and Learning- Level 2

QOTL 2 is a 5-week advanced online teaching training open to faculty, who have been teaching fully online, or hybrid, courses for more than 3 years. It is offered fully online asynchronously that builds on QOTL 1 and goes beyond the content in that course. The goal is to invite you to look at one of your existing courses and re-imagine any components that you feel could be improved upon and/or enhanced. This training is designed to fit each of your individual needs by utilizing a Choose Your Own Adventure format. Participants receive 25-hr of compensation at the applicable special rate.

Training Dates: Sept. 11- Oct. 16.

Facilitators:

  • Andrea Fuentes, Instructional Designer, Skyline College
  • Julieth Diaz Benitez, Instructional Designer, CSM

*Please note that we are not able to approve waivers for QOTL-Level 2 at this time. 

Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) Training

A fully self-paced training on our Regular and Substantive Interaction Policy Links to an external site.. Training covers requirements related to interaction with students, instructors, and content during your course. 

*Must be completed by all new faculty in the fall semester

Register today to start! Links to an external site.

Just-in-Time Support 

Reach out to a member of our Distance Education team for individualized support, we'll be happy to help you.

Need a pedagogical thought partner to enhance the student learning experience?

Schedule a meeting with an instructional designer assigned to your division: 

Need support with instructional technology? 

Reach out to our wonderful instructional technologists, Marisol Quevedo (quevedom@smccd.edu) and Erica Reynolds (reynoldse@smccd.edu). 

Questions about DE addenda, POCR certification, or OEI design rubric? 

Contact Donna Eyestone, Distance Education Coordinator (eyestoned@smccd.edu)

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