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A partially online course is taught online using similar web-based tools with course activities as an online class. Some portion of the course meeting time is conducted online, and the remaining percentage of the class is conducted in a traditional classroom manner.
The class is taught face-to-face for 100% of the course meeting time, but classroom assignments and materials are supplemented with web-based activities. Examples are online projects, hand-outs and materials, online discussions, or online testing.
Online learning can be an exciting way to learn; it can also be challenging. Your success is directly tied to your effort and organization. It requires a high level of motivation and self-discipline, and you may spend more hours on coursework than you would if you took the same course in a classroom
Most communication in an online class consists of written messages between you and the instructor and discussions among class participants. If you have difficulty with an assignment or have questions, you must be willing to "speak up" to inform the instructor. Good typing skills also are a plus.
Enrolling for online classes is the same as enrolling in face to face classes. Visit Los Rios Enrollment Instructions for exact procedures.
Atlas is a collection of program maps, a tool for creating and maintaining those maps, and a means of sharing approved maps with students and the public via the college websites. The maps in Atlas are designed to help students explore their options, showing them what it takes to complete a program of study in a reasonable amount of time and providing helpful information like potential transfer majors and careers.
Atlas is designed to automate the map creation and maintenance process, making it as easy as possible for users to enter maps, for reviewers to check and approve maps, and for college-level Atlas administrators to publish maps to their college websites.
Atlas is not an educational planning tool. The district will be using Highpoint Degree Planner for educational planning purposes. Maps displayed to students will show them their options, but students will not be able to alter the maps to create an educational plan.
Atlas is not a degree audit tool. Maps created in Atlas will need to be checked by people who understand curriculum and graduation requirements.
Atlas is not a career exploration tool. While maps may contain career information, students should be referred to other sources of labor market and career information such as Career Coach and Salary Surfer.
No, maps are not intended to be default educational plans. Students will still need to work with counselors to create educational plans that are tailored to their individual needs.
Atlas is being developed initially to work in Chrome, for desktop computers. There are no guarantees that it will work properly in another browser or on a mobile device at this time.
No, Atlas will be shared across the district but each college will have its own version which can be customized, to a point, to meet each individual college’s needs. Ongoing collaboration will be required to ensure that Atlas works for users at all four colleges.
Each college is unique and will display program maps on their websites in different formats. ARC calls their program maps “roadmaps.”
You must log in with your w-ID.
HTML roadmaps will have a “print” button that displays a printer-friendly view. Roadmaps could also provide links to the catalog listing of the program as well as to salary and labor market information in Career Coach or Salary Surfer. Students will also be able to check off courses that they have already completed, which will cause the appearance of the course in the roadmap to change, so students can see what they have left to complete.
Yes, they must be using the current catalog and the map must be identified with the current catalog year. Users cannot create maps for previous or future catalogs because the course and program information may not be the same.
Not at this time, but we are looking into it.
Yes, users will be able to do so. Details have yet to be determined.
Short answer, no need to worry. All deleted maps can be retrieved in these cases.
All request/recommendations will be reviewed and looked over. Details have yet to be determined.
For Summer and Fall 2019 classes, there will be two opportunities to cross list: June 3, 8AM, through June 7, 4PM and then again from August 13, 8AM through August 23, 4PM.
For those of you who request “multis” or “Special Groups” for your courses (example: combining three ENGWR 300 courses into one course shell), in Canvas you will now be doing this yourself. It is advisable to complete the cross-list process prior to working on your Canvas shell - changes in a child shell that is added to parent shell will be lost during the process. Please follow these instructions carefully. Cross-Listing must be completed prior to students completing any work in the class; all student work will be lost during the cross-list process! Students will be automatically added to Canvas for each course 7 calendar days before the course start date.
This guide was created in response to ARC’s transition to a new website, effective June 2019, necessitating that links in courses rolled-over from previous terms be updated.
Any links that were part of the ARC Canvas Template prior to summer/fall 2019 will need to be updated accordingly; refer to the ARC Canvas Template URL Crosswalk for new webpage links.
This guide will walk you through the steps necessary to update the ARC website links in the Course Navigation menu (ARC Resources and ARC Tutoring).
