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Professional Development: Associate Faculty

In support of the college’s mission and Objective 1.6 of the College of the Redwoods Strategic Plan (Support staff and faculty development and instructional innovation), CR provides a comprehensive professional development program including: assessment of

Absence Reporting

If you are unable to attend class for any reason, please call your Division office (https://www.redwoods.edu/divisions) as soon as possible so that a notice can be posted on your classroom door. If you leave a message on voice mail, please leave the full name of your class, the classroom room number, and the time it meets. As a courtesy to your students, please announce your absence on your voice mail or Canvas announcements page. You are allowed two sick days per semester.

Assessment Reporting

  1. Go to: http://webapps.redwoods.edu/attendancereporting/
  2. Log in (first-last name and password).
  3. Select term, class section, and date.
  4. Click the 'Display Roster' button.
  5. The class section’s start and end times will automatically populate.
  6. Under the column labeled “Post,” check the box to indicate if student attended.
  7. If a student attends a partial class, manually adjust the “Time In” and “Time Out” columns to accurately reflect the student’s attendance.
  8. Click to the “Post Hours” button to submit the attendance.
  9. In the event of an attendance reporting error or if a student is missing from the class roster, email Esmeralda-Ramirez@redwoods.edu to resolve.
  10. Attendance is to be reported within seven days of the class.

Questions? Call 707-476-4520.

Commencement

Find details for Commencement online here: https://www.redwoods.edu/commencement

Division Contact Information

Academic Calendar

Access the Academic Calendar online here: https://www.redwoods.edu/academic-calendar

Automatic Waitlist Process

The DE Department has developed an online wait-list form and process that allows online instructors to add students from their wait-lists to their class rosters prior to the first day of the term. This process ensures that online students have the same timely access to the information and resources needed to be successful in an online course as their counterparts in face-to-face courses. Recently the Distance Education Planning Committee (DEPC) worked with registration to streamline and further clarify the online wait-list process for instructors. If you would like to participate in this process click on this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WaitListForm . For more information about this process access the CR Online Wait-list Page.

CONNECT

https://redwoods.instructure.com/enroll/XH6CBJ. For questions about the Canvas system, please contact Reno Giovannetti (reno-giovannetti@redwoods.edu)

DE Technology Tools

CR offers instructors a number of helpful technology tools such as SoftChalk Cloud for constructing multi-page, multi-media (if desired) lesson or assignment content embedded in Canvas, or OER materials that students can access outside of Canvas via a free reader. Another feature of SoftChalk is that quizzes or other types of assessments can be embedded in lesson content that feeds into the Canvas grade book automatically. CR also has a limited number of Camtasia licenses available for video production and screen casting. See the Faculty Canvas Resources page (https://www.redwoods.edu/online/Home/Faculty-Resources/Faculty-Canvas-Resources) for more information or contact Reno Giovannetti 476-4568 or Reno-Giovannetti@Redwoods.edu for license key information. In addition there are two laptops loaded with software, and microphones that instructors can check out from the library.

Adult Education Attendance Reporting

  1. Go to: http://webapps.redwoods.edu/attendancereporting/
  2. Log in (first-last name and password).
  3. Select term, class section, and date.
  4. Click the 'Display Roster' button.
  5. The class section’s start and end times will automatically populate.
  6. Under the column labeled “Post,” check the box to indicate if student attended.
  7. If a student attends a partial class, manually adjust the “Time In” and “Time Out” columns to accurately reflect the student’s attendance.
  8. Click to the “Post Hours” button to submit the attendance.
  9. In the event of an attendance reporting error or if a student is missing from the class roster, email Esmeralda-Ramirez@redwoods.edu to resolve.
  10. Attendance is to be reported within seven days of the class.

Collective Bargaining Agreement

The current CBA, covering wages and working conditions, is available at: https://www.redwoods.edu/crfo/CBA

Contracts

Make sure that you have signed a contract prior to the beginning of your course(s)

Contact Jose Serrano in the Human Resources Office (in the Administration Building) for information regarding your contract at: jose-serrano@redwoods.edu or 707 476-4342

Distance Education & Canvas

Canvas has been adopted as College of the Redwoods Learning Management System. CR Online has a Faculty Resources [https://www.redwoods.edu/online/Help/Faculty] page, that provides links to valuable tools and videos for distance ed, distance ed contacts, and Canvas Resources and Training Schedule [https://www.redwoods.edu/online/Canvas].

Topics

  • Absence Reporting
  • Academic Calendar
  • Adult Education Attendance Reporting
  • Assessment Reporting
  • Automatic Online Wait-List Process
  • Collective Bargaining Agreement
  • Commencement
  • Connect
  • Contact Sheet
  • Contracts
  • CRFO
  • DE Technology Tools
  • Distance Ed & Canvas
  • Division Contacts & Information