It's a New Year... Welcome back to the Spring 2024 semester!

January 2024: News & Updates

View the sessions from the January 4th, 2024 Cougar TALEs!

Student Authenticity

Essential Skills: The Why, What, and Where!

Email Jenna with questions at wornkeyj@bartonccc.edu.

BOLT 102/104 Canvas FAQ and Help

BOLT 102: Educational Technologies

• A resource for educational technologies offered at Barton

BOTL 104: Mini Faculty Bootcamp

• Self-paced, mini lessons on faculty requested topics

Take a look at the BOLT 102/104 course shell. It is available to all under the Help icon on the left-hand side of your Canvas account.

Open Educational Resources

As we continue to make outstanding progress with our OER initiative, we are still aiming to build a Low-Cost degree. The current focus is with Barton Online for the AA, AS, and AGS degrees.

Please reach out to Megan Schiffelbein for more information on OER or how you can get started to become OER certified. 

Canvas Highlights

Canvas Messaging After a Course Ends (Work-around)

Please see the 2 options for Canvas messaging after the course end date here. If you have discovered another way of communicating via Canvas messaging after the course ends, please share that with us. If you need assistance, please contact the Center at centerstaff@bartonccc.edu.

Session Dates

In Canvas, the session dates are set for the actual start and end dates within each course shell. However, student access to courses is extended one week past the last day of the session. This allows students have one extra week to access the course to view their grades. If you have questions, please contact Erin Eggers at eggerse@bartonccc.edu. 

Find Courses on Dashboard

When looking for your courses on your dashboard in Canvas, if one of your courses is missing, please try the following:

• In your Canvas account, on the left-hand side of the page, click on Courses,
• Then click on All Courses; scroll to locate the course.
• If you would like for the course to appear on your dashboard, please click on the little star by the course name.
• If you are still unable to located a course after looking in All Courses, please reach out to Erin Eggers at eggerse@bartonccc.edu for assistance.

The Center stands ready to support you this session, and to that end, here are a few reminders to support your success. 

• Please ensure you have rolled (copied) and updated a course into your production (live) shell for this term. Having a developmental course shell and an approved course does not mean this content was moved into a production (live) course shell. 

• Ensure that you have rolled (copied) and updated your Concourse syllabus in the same course. **Note that moving a course does NOT include the syllabus.

• Ensure that you have your pretest or a content-related assignment due by the first Wednesday of the course.

• Ensure that your course contains the most up-to-date "Barton Online" logo, not the older "BARTonline" logo. 

• Ensure you are using the new Barton Online orientation module (found in the Canvas commons) and that all items relating to the older orientation module (including the quizzes) have been removed. 

As always, please reach out to any of us for additional assistance. 

UPDATE on Student Add/Drop Email Notifications

This project continues to be a work in progress! As we continue to work on this, please remember to check your rosters in your Canvas course shells or in the portal under the Self-Service/PAWS card. You can also view this PowerBI report. Again, thank you for patience.