QOTL Offerings
Quality Online Teaching & Learning, The Essentials (QOTL-E)
QOTL-E is a self-paced supplementary resource to teaching with the Canvas LMS across modalities in the San Mateo County Community College District. This resource will better prepare faculty for completion of our online teaching certification sequence, Quality Online Teaching and Learning (QOTL).
QOTL-E should be completed before QOTL 1 if:
- you're new to teaching with the Canvas LMS,
- you'd like a refresher on some of the most essential parts of teaching with Canvas,
- you'd like to start getting up to speed while you wait for the next QOTL 1 cohort to start.
Course Objectives
After completing QOTL-E, you should be able to:
- Build organized courses for your students that utilize the essential functions of the Canvas LMS.
- Identify the essential services and resources available on your campus.
- Collaborate with your campus Instructional Designer for support whenever you might need it.
Are you interested in QOTL-E?
The course is built to take around 5 hours to complete the content of the course.
The final deliverables may take an additional 5-7 hours to complete, depending on
what you already have prepared for your course. If you have any questions, or would like more information on QOTL-E, please contact us.
If you’re ready to join QOTL-E, please follow the enrollment instructions for QOTL-E in the Vision Resource Center Enroll Now in Quality Online Teaching and Learning - The Essentials (QOTL-E)
Quality Online Teaching & Learning 1 (QOTL 1)
The Quality Online Teaching & Learning Training, or QOTL, is an in-house certification program for SMCCCD faculty to learn how to teach online and/or hybrid courses. QOTL was first offered in the Summer of 2017 and will be offered three times each year--once during the Fall, Spring and Summer semesters. The course is offered 100% online and the objectives of QOTL are outlined below.
At the completion of QOTL, participants will be able to:
- Design an accessible online or hybrid course in Canvas while applying the OEI Course Design Rubric.
- Assess new or existing course materials for accessibility and revise as needed.
- Construct a course that meets the needs of online or hybrid students, specifically in the area of Regular Effective Contact.
QOTL 1 Sample Syllabus & Schedule
Are you interested in the next QOTL training?
Upcoming QOTL 1 Offerings
- Spring 2025: April 17th - May 19th
Please email DE Coordinator Nada Nekrep (nekrepn@smccd.edu) to sign up for an upcoming QOTL 1 offering.
Quality Online Teaching & Learning 2 (QOTL 2)
About the Training
QOTL 2 is an advanced online teaching training that builds off of QOTL 1 and goes beyond the content in that course. The goal is to invite faculty to look at one of their existing courses and re-imagine any components that they feel could be improved upon and/or enhanced. And we want this training to fit the needs of our faculty, so we’ve designed it to be a Choose Your Own Adventure format. The course begins with a Module 0 that everyone completes, followed by the three modules that faculty participants get to choose, and concludes with a final activity.
Faculty participants get to choose which modules they work through based on the topics that they’d like to dive further into. They get to choose one module from each category to make up their own QOTL 2 Adventure. Here’s an outline of the topics faculty can choose from:
| Category A – Course Structure & Navigation (choose 1) |
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| Category B - Interaction & Communication (choose 1) |
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| Category C - Assessment (choose 1) |
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Upcoming QOTL 2 Offerings
We are currently inviting faculty who have completed QOTL 1 three or more years ago to participate in QOTL 2.
- Spring 2025: February 18th - March 26th
Please email DE Coordinator Nada Nekrep (nekrepn@smccd.edu) to sign up for an opcoming QOTL 2 offering.