Welcome to the Online Certificate Course

This course is meant to introduce faculty to online course design, tools, and best practices.

Instructor Information

The Online Learning Department is excited to work with you all.

Faculty Name: Jeremiah Grabowski | Humberto Hernandez | Katherine Rossi

Faculty e-mail address: grabowsj@dyc.edu | hernandh@dyc.edu | rossik@dyc.edu

Synchronous Session: Via Zoom.

Getting Started

Step 1: Read the Course Map and Visit the D'Youville Resources

The course map will provide you with an outline of what you will be learning throughout the course. The course map is a snapshop of the course, allows you to evaluate its meaningful components and align the learning outcomes with course activities.

Visit the D'Youville Resources page to view all resources available to you.

Step 2: Watch Course Overview Video

Step 3: Read the technical requirements page

The Technical Requirements page identifies the browsers, operating systems, and plugins that work best with Canvas. If you are new to Canvas quickly review the Canvas Student Orientation materials.

Step 4: Canvas Navigation

On the left side, you will notice your course navigation. Read the links and descriptions on what they are and when you should be checking each link.

Navigation Link	Description	You Should…
Modules	This area contains course content, including lectures, readings, resources, and assignments. This area may also contain a checklist summary of assignments for the module.	Check this area at the start of each module and throughout the module week to review course materials.
Panopto Recordings	Panopto is utilized to disseminate recorded video and podcast content. Additional features include captioning for the hearing impaired, the ability to toggle the main recorded video with footage from the instructor's screen, as well as content flagging for later review.	Check out this link to access all of your instructor's available audio and video content.

Step 6: Begin course content

You may begin on the course by clicking this link.