Mastering Canvas and Online Learning at Citrus College: A Comprehensive Guide
Citrus College is dedicated to student success, offering a variety of resources to help students thrive in both traditional and online learning environments. This guide provides a detailed overview of Canvas, the college's learning management system, and other support services available to students.
Navigating Canvas: Your Gateway to Online Courses
Canvas is the central hub for online courses at Citrus College. It's where you'll find course materials, submit assignments, participate in discussions, and communicate with your instructors. Citrus College provides resources to help students best utilize the Canvas Learning Management System.
Accessing Alternative Formats
Canvas offers an accessibility feature that allows students to convert course files into different formats, such as ePub, Audio, or BeeLine Reader. This is available to all students using Canvas.
Essential Online Learning Resources
Citrus College recognizes the unique challenges of remote education and offers a range of resources to support students learning from home.
Online Learning Resources for Student Success
Citrus College provides resources to assist students with learning how to best succeed with the changes in instructional delivery methods of remote education. A wide range of resources provide strategies for studying in the home environment with family and children and taking care of your health and wellness while living in a remote environment.
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CCC California Virtual Campus Online Education Initiative
The California Community Colleges have developed a series of videos that address the real challenges experienced by students while pursuing success in online classes.
Technology Assistance and Accessibility
Citrus College is committed to providing accessible learning environments for all students.
TeCS Help Desk
For login issues, students can contact the TeCS Help Desk at (626) 857-4100.
Assistive Technology Software
Citrus College provides access to assistive technology software to support students with disabilities:
- Freedom Scientific: JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion are programs that assist blind and low vision individuals with access to reading information on the internet or any digital documents in Microsoft Word or PDFs.
- Kurzweil 3000: This online software provides text-to-speech reading capability and various study tools to assist with writing and reading comprehension.
CollegeBuys
CollegeBuys is an online store that provides discounts on essential technology software and hardware resources for CCC students, faculty, and staff.
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Learning Center and Tutorial Services
The Citrus College Learning Center offers free support to all Citrus College students. To access these services, students need to provide their student ID number. The Learning Center offices are located in ED 113, and a campus map is available for directions. All students must show a Citrus College photo ID or a photo ID with official documentation of your Citrus College student ID number. (If hand written, must be stamped and initialed by admissions and records staff). Tests cannot be administered without proper ID.
Areas of Assistance
- Writing Center: Offers assistance with writing assignments from any class, including essays, research papers/projects, APA and MLA formatting, strategies for note-taking, reading comprehension, writing lab reports, and in-class essay writing.
- Speech Lab: Provides support for speech students, assisting with the entire speech process from outlining and writing to presenting. The Speech Lab offers a designated space for students to record speeches with the benefit of a tutor to help set up the framing of the recording, ensure that the speech is being recorded, and provide commentary for ways the speech can be improved once the student has finished recording. Students using our services must know how to use the software or tools for their specific course, as staff are not trained on the many types of apps and tools instructors may use. Please keep this in mind as we provide support for the speech, not the technology used.
- Tutorial Services: Highly qualified peer tutors are available to answer English and speech questions. A tutorial sessions schedule is available in a simplified, ADA-compliant PDF.
- Adapted Testing: The Learning Center offers test administration and proctoring of adapted DSPS exams.
Contact Information
The Learning Center can be reached at (626) 914-8570.
Department of Rehabilitation (DOR)
The DOR works in partnership with consumers and other stakeholders to provide services and advocacy resulting in employment, independent living, and equality for individuals with disabilities.
Services Offered
The Department of Rehabilitation has many resources and may be able to assist you with tuition, books and supplies, clothing and uniforms for work, technology, counseling and guidance, and many other services at no cost to you (free). Department services are designed to help you formulate and achieve your employment goal. Working together as a team, you and your counselor will develop a plan to determine the steps necessary for you to reach your goal.
Eligibility
Individuals with a disability who require services to prepare for, enter, engage in, or retain gainful employment, or to live more independently.
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Contact
Students can contact Rocio Chavez at the Department of Rehabilitation to see if they are eligible. The DOR office is located at 9300 Flair Dr., Ste.
Advantages of Online Courses
Online courses offer a convenient alternative to on-campus classes for students who live out of the local area, have transportation issues, physical limitations, or family/work responsibilities that interfere with attending classes on campus. Oftentimes, students enroll in online education courses as a way to advance toward their degree, while simultaneously working and/or taking care of their families.
Important Policies
In order to maintain an academic environment conducive to learning, and for the safety of children in our community, per Citrus College Board Policy 4290, children will not be permitted in the following locations: the Learning Center (ED 113), which includes the Writing Center, the Speech Lab, tutorial services, adapted testing, and online testing.
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