Center for Teaching and Learning - Clovis Community College: Online Teaching Certification Course Information

The Online Teaching Certification course is designed to prepare instructors to teach a fully online asynchronous course. 

The 12 week course is offered each Fall and Spring semester. Upon completion of the course, faculty will be eligible to teach online at Clovis Community College and may be eligible to teach online at other campuses. 

Course Description and Learning Outcomes

This course will introduce you to effective practices in online instruction by building on a solid understanding of California Community College distance education policies and procedures. 

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• incorporate California Community College distance education policies and procedures, Clovis Community College distance education policies and procedures (including accessibility), and Title 5 requirements into your course;
• discuss the unique needs of California community college students and the challenges and opportunities of asynchronous online courses;
• use the OEI Course Design Rubric to design a quality online course;
• use backward design principles to start a course plan;
• apply Universal Design concepts to the planning and design of your online course;
• develop unit-level learning objectives in student-centered language with demonstrable learning outcomes;
• scaffold learning to support the needs of diverse students;
• design a variety of valid and authentic formative and summative assessments aligned to the course outcomes that support and measure student learning;
• design student self-assessments;
• write clear and detailed assessment instructions;
• create clear descriptive rubrics that support desired outcomes;
• develop an assessment plan for your course that supports regular assessment with timely, meaningful feedback.
• use a variety of communication tools, both within and external to Canvas, to support student success;
• write a succinct and informative welcome letter;
• design a welcoming home page in Canvas;
• develop a supportive orientation unit with policies, student services, and meaningful student-to-student interaction;
• design an accessible online syllabus;
• develop a communication plan for your course
• create and/or choose accessible content that supports the learning outcomes and objectives of your course;
• check accessibility of outside resources using online tools;
• create accessible documents using Word, Google docs, PowerPoint, and/or PDF;
• caption videos;
• list campus resources available to assist you and your students with accessibility issues.