Every three years, faculty will need to complete at least four additional hours of DE training to keep their Online Teaching Certification current.
Recertification opportunities may include, but are not limited to:
Clovis Community College Distance Education Faculty Handbook
Self-Report Your Completed Training Hours Here: Clovis CC Online Teaching Recertification
You may be asked to complete training as part of certification / recertification at another campus where you are teaching online. These activities may also count toward your requirements here. Reach out if you have questions.
Approved College Requirements:
Prepping Like a Pro: Setting the Stage for a Great Learning Experience
Mon, September 29, 2025; 10:00 AM / Duration: 60 minutes
Presenter: Bill Moseley
Being a great professor can be hard. We live in a world of ever-changing and growing responsibilities, complicated systems and on top of all that, teachers are expected to be experts—often without sufficient formal training in the art. There are many points of failure, but one of the most common is insufficient preparation.
In this seminar, veteran faculty and learning expert Bill Moseley will provide tried-and-true approaches to preparing for the term that will revolutionize your teaching, including:
Scroll Less, Talk More: Humanizing the Online Learning Experience
Mon, October 06, 2025; 1:00 PM / Duration: 60 minutes
Presenter: Ryan Hitch
In online learning environments, students often spend more time scrolling through content than engaging with their peers. While we know that human connection—not just information—is the key to deeper academic engagement, is it possible to build these relationships in a scripted online setting like a college course? In this session, we’ll explore what it means to “scroll less and talk more” in the context of online learning and how this shift can support our students’ persistence, motivation, and success.
Participants will explore a range of communication tools—both within Canvas and external platforms—with a focus on strategies that encourage authentic student-to-student connection. Special attention will be given to ways we can replicate the informal spaces where meaningful peer relationships form in face-to-face classes. Attendees will leave with flexible, scalable ideas for building online student communities that support learning in the online classroom and beyond.
Designing for the Future: Leveraging AI, UDL, and Flexible Course Design for Inclusive Learning
Tue, October 14, 2025; 11:00 AM / Duration: 60 minutes
Presenter: Elli Constantin
Explore how AI can support faculty in anticipating learner variability, designing flexible, inclusive courses, and fostering metacognition through reflective, growth-oriented rubrics. Grounded in Universal Design for Learning (UDL), participants will discover how to use AI tools to streamline design, embed choice, and support student thinking and ownership. Practical examples and strategies will be shared for immediate application.
You Say You’re My A11y, But Then UX Me
Thu, October 16, 2025; 1:00 PM / Duration: 60 minutes
Presenter: Saša Stojić-Ito
This session unpacks the often-overlooked disconnect between accessibility and usability in higher ed. Just because content meets technical standards doesn’t mean it’s usable or inclusive. If students are lost, frustrated, or can’t engage meaningfully, we’ve missed the mark.
This webinar will explore what happens when accessibility stops at compliance, why usability must be part of the conversation, and how to design digital experiences that truly work for all learners. Through real examples, a dash of humor, and practical strategies, you’ll learn how to shift from accessible enough to actually inclusive. Because when UX (usability) fails, a11y (accessibility) falls with it.
Whether you’re building Canvas pages or choosing tools for engagement, you'll learn how to make accessibility a shared, intentional practice–because usable is accessible, and everyone has a role to play.
Leaning into Our Values: Incorporating GenAI into Our Teaching Practice
Mon, October 27, 2025; 11:00 AM / Duration: 60 minutes
Presenter: Katie Datko
With the disruptive innovation of Generative AI, educational leaders and faculty alike face uncertainty with the disruptive innovation of this mutable technology. A key component to dealing with radical change is ‘leaning into’ and living according to our personal and professional values. This webinar will encourage participants to examine the roles our values play as we examine how GenAI impacts authorship, connection and critical analysis and meaning-making in our academic learning and workplace environments.
Human-First Teaching with AI
Thu, November 06, 2025; 10:00 AM / Duration: 60 minutes
Presenter: E. Nidia González
Modern teaching demands more from faculty than ever before. From formatting and accessibility compliance to upholding rigorous academic standards within the new frontier of online courses, instructors are increasingly consumed by digital busy-work. While these responsibilities are essential, these tasks pull us away from what matters most: meaningful human-to-human connection with our students. In this session we will explore how AI tools can automate repetitive teaching tasks without compromising quality, equity, or integrity. Webinar attendees will learn how to:
Participants will receive a digital resources toolkit to help get them reduce and manage their own digital busy work more effectively.