eLearning at CPTC  

eLearning at CPTC offers a variety of online, hybrid and web-enhanced courses that provide students who have jobs, a family, or other responsibilities with a more flexible and independent approach to their education. 

Summer Quarter 2015: July 1st – September 1st

Fall Quarter 2015: September 21st – December 10th

What is Canvas? Canvas is an online tool that CPTC uses to support most online, hybrid and web-enhanced courses.  Canvas is used to post course content, such as course syllabus, course documents, links to articles, grades, or to hold online discussions, turn in homework or take online exams.

Canvas Login Information (PC or Mobile Devices)

*New Canvas student accounts for Summer Qtr. 2015 will not be created until June 1st. 

*New Canvas student accounts for Fall Qtr. 2015 will not be created until August 21st.

To log in to Canvas, go to https://cptc.instructure.com  

Username = always your Student Identification Number (SID)
Password = the first 6 letters of your last name, repeat from beginning if less than 6

Password Example: Williams=willia / Reed=reedre / Lee=leelee

Learn Canvas Basics

(45 minute sessions) On-Campus Orientation: Bldg. 15, Room 108 (eLearning)

Summer - July 1st or 2nd @ 9am or 3pm

Fall – September 21st or 22nd @ 9am or 3pm 

New Online students!  After you log in to Canvas look in the Welcome Message and click on the Online Student Orientation link.  Click "Enroll in Class", then click "Enter the Course" and the orientation will open and will be available in your Course List the entire time you are enrolled.  Individual courses will open 1^st day of the quarter unless your instructor opens them early.

Canvas Help? Call (253) 589.4534 or (253) 589.5730 or come to Building 15, Room 108. Hours:  Monday -Thursday 7am to 5pm or Friday 7am to 4pm.

Other Helpful Information

Advising & Counseling: (253) 589.5548

Student Services: (253) 589.5666

Disability Services: (253) 589.5767 or (253) 589.5826 TTY (Hearing & Speech Impaired).

Financial Aid: (253) 589.5660

Bookstore: (253) 589.5614

Security Emergency: (253) 589.5682            Non-Emergency: (253) 589.5557

Student Email Help: (253) 589.5820

WAOL class contact information: 1 (888) 580.9011

Continuing Education or Ed2go Assistance: Call (253) 589.5575

For WAOL textbook information please go online to http://waol.org and click on Bookstore.  WAOL Summer classes begin June 25th, 2015.  Summer Courses will open June 18th. Watch for Fall start dates later in the summer.

eLearning Office Information 

Staff:

Kelley Meeusen, eLearning Coordinator (253) 589.5730

Cindy Overton, eLearning Support Specialist (253) 589.4534

Location:

Building 15, Room 108

Hours:

Monday – Thursday 7am – 5pm & Friday 7am – 4pm

All questions about course content and materials should be directed to your individual instructors.

See you Online!

eLearning @ Clover Park Technical College

Winter Quarter 2015: January 5 – March 24 

 eLearning at CPTC offers a variety of online, hybrid and web-enhanced courses which provide students who have jobs, a family, or other responsibilities with a more flexible and independent approach to their education.  Online, hybrid and web-enhanced courses use Canvas as the online learning management system.
 

What is Canvas? Canvas is an online tool that CPTC uses to support online, hybrid, and web-enhanced courses.  Canvas is used to post course content, such as course syllabus, course documents, links to articles, grades, or to hold online discussions, turn in homework or take online exams.

Canvas Login Information

*New Canvas student accounts for Winter Quarter 2015 will not be created until December 2, 2014. You will not have access to Canvas until then.

To log in to Canvas, go to https://cptc.instructure.com  

Username = always your Student Identification Number (SID)
Password = the first 6 letters of your last name, repeat from beginning if less than 6

Password Example: Williams=willia / Reed=reedre / Lee=leelee

Learn to Use Canvas

Winter (45 - 50 minute ) On-Campus Orientation: Bldg. 15, Room 112 (Writing Lab)

January 5 at 8am, 1pm or 3pm

January 6 at 8am, 1pm or 3pm 

Winter (45 - 50 minute ) On-Campus Orientation: Bldg. 15, Room 108 (TLC/eLearning)

January 8 at 9am, 11am or 1pm

January 9 at 9am, 11am or 1pm

New Online students!  After December 2nd log into Canvas, click on the Online Student Orientation link.  Click "Enroll in Class", then click the "Enter Course" option and the orientation will open.  Here you will find an Orientation to Canvas, support numbers, and resources to help with your Canvas classes. Courses will open day one of the quarter unless your instructor opens them early.

Canvas Help?  

Call (253) 589.4534 or (253) 589.5730 or come to Building 15, Room 108. 

Hours:  Monday -Thursday 7am to 5pm or Friday 7am to 4pm.

Other Helpful Information

Advising & Counseling: (253) 589.5548

Student Services: (253) 589.5666

Disability Services: (253) 589.5767 or (253) 589.5826 TTY (Hearing & Speech Impaired).

Financial Aid: (253) 589.5660

Bookstore: (253) 589.5614

Security Emergency: (253) 589.5682            Non-Emergency: (253) 589.5557

Student Email Help: (253) 589.5820

WAOL class contact information: 1 (888) 580.9011

Continuing Education or Ed2go Assistance: Call Carol Nuttman (253) 589.5575

For WAOL textbook information please go online to http://waol.org and click on Bookstore.  WAOL Winter classes begin January 8.

eLearning Office Information 

Staff:

Kelley Meeusen, eLearning Coordinator (253) 589.5730

Cindy Overton, eLearning Support Specialist (253) 589.4534

Location:

Building 15, Room 108

Hours:

Monday – Thursday 7am – 5pm & Friday 7am – 4pm

All questions about course content and materials should be directed to your individual instructors.

See you Online!

The third annual Open Education Week takes place from March 10-15, both online and offline around the world. Through the events and resources, we hope to reach out to more people to demonstrate what kind of opportunities open education has created and what we have to look forward to.

Some FAQs about OER

What are OER? The concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) describes any educational resources (including curriculum maps, course materials, textbooks, streaming videos, multimedia applications, podcasts, and any other materials that have been designed for use in teaching and learning) that are openly available for use by educators and students, without an accompanying need to pay royalties or license fees.

Importantly, there is only one key differentiator between an OER and any other educational resource: its license. Thus, an OER is simply an educational resource that incorporates a license that facilitates reuse, and potentially adaptation, without first requesting permission from the copyright holder.

How can education benefit by harnessing OER? The most important reason for harnessing OER is that openly licensed educational materials have tremendous potential to contribute to improving the quality and effectiveness of education.

The transformative educational potential of OER revolves around three linked possibilities:

1.     The principle of allowing adaptation of materials provides one mechanism amongst many for constructing roles for students as active participants in educational processes, who learn best by doing and creating, not by passively reading and absorbing. Content licenses that encourage activity and creation by students through re-use and adaptation of that content can make a significant contribution to creating more effective learning environments.

2.     OER has potential to build capacity by providing institutions and educators access, at low or no cost, to the means of production to develop their competence in producing educational materials and carrying out the necessary instructional design to integrate such materials into high quality programs of learning.

3.     Deliberate openness thus acknowledges that:

·       Investment in designing effective educational environments is critically important to good education.

·       A key to productive systems is to build on common intellectual capital, rather than duplicating similar efforts.

·       All things being equal, collaboration will improve quality.

·       As education is a contextualized practice, it is important to make it easy to adapt materials imported from different settings where this is required, and this should be encouraged rather than restricted.

Watch for more information on OER as we move closer to OER Week 2014.
If you have questions about OER, feel free to contact me at your convenience.

Kelley L. Meeusen

Kelley L. Meeusen, eLearning Coordinator

253-589-5730