Online Learning
Your Connection to Learning — anytime, anywhere!
Faculty & Staff Resources
Faculty Online Support
The office of Online Learning offers workshops, learning communities, and live Drop-in hours on Zoom throughout the week.
Upcoming Workshops and Events
Our workshops and events are great places to learn more about teaching with Canvas and building community with your peers.
Get Started to use Canvas to teach
Before you can teach an online course at Foothill you must participate in our Online Teaching with Canvas course. Fill out the following form to get started.
Learn how to manage your live Canvas site
Several weeks before the start of each quarter, your Canvas courses will appear unpublished on your Canvas Dashboard where you can populate them with your course content.
Request a Canvas development or project site
Do you need a Canvas development or project site? You can fill out the following form to request one.
Peer Online Course Review (POCR)
Have you been wondering how you can improve the course quality of your online courses? If you have taught online for at least a year you might consider participating in our Peer Online Course Review.
Using Zoom
Not sure how to use Zoom on its own or from within Canvas? Take a look at these Zoom-focused tutorials and resources.
Regular Substantive Interaction (RSI) is a key part of online teaching that ensures meaningful engagement between instructors and students. Foothill College requires faculty teaching online to complete professional learning in RSI. This 2-part process must be completed before teaching online courses.
Learn more about RSIStudent Resources
Visit the Student Support Portal
The Student Support Portal is your gateway to the services that we provide at Foothill. Do you need tutoring help? Do you need access to health care?
Canvas Student Orientation
Not sure how to use Canvas? You can attend a live Zoom session during the first week of the quarter, or you can step through the online tutorials.
Get free access to Microsoft 365!
Do you need access to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Sway? Foothill offers you free access while you are enrolled in courses.
Get Course Information
You can find out more detailed information about a course by searching the class schedule and then clicking on the name of the instructor. This will take you to the Foothill Directory entry for that instructor where you can find more information about each of their courses.
Search the Class Schedule
To find fully online asynchronous courses make sure the Modality is set to Online and that the course section ends with the letter “W”.
Example: ACTG-001A-01W
Course Information
To find out more about a course and the instructor, select the instructor's name. This will take you to the Foothill Directory entry for that instructor.
Note that not all instructors provide more information about their course.
More Resources
Cynthia Brannvall’s Story — From Student to Foothill Art Professor
Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS), Ceremony of Recognition Speech by Henry Fan.
It took a lot of effort to fix the issues, but now that I understand accessibility better, it’s easy to maintain. It feels great, not just to be finished, but to know I’ve removed barriers to student learning.
Elizabeth BarkleyFoothill CollegePh.D. Professor Music History
