Instructor Support

Instructors,

Welcome to week 6 of the term! Many of you already have access to Winter 2025 courses and enrollments in Moodle (see recent changes to course rollout procedures). If you don’t see your section listed, check the class schedule to ensure your department administrator has added you as the instructor of record.

-Josh
LMS Admin

🤕 YuJa Accessibility Woes

YuJa Panorama is the accessibility tool embedded into all courses that helps make course documents more inclusive for all students. I need to highlight a significant issue that’s come to my attention: 

While remediated versions of your documents are correctly shown to students in your current class, they’re stored on YuJa’s servers, and the original documents stored in Moodle aren't updated. This means when you copy your course for the next term, the remediation work doesn't carry over, and you’ll need to address any accessibility concerns on those files again (complete waste of time). 

I have joined other Moodle schools in advocating the vendor replicate functionality currently available in their Canvas integration. For now, the best "solution" I can suggest is that instructors manually download and re-upload any documents remediated through the YuJa accessibility wizards. I know this adds extra work and feels counterintuitive. However, your individual efforts to make content more accessible are invaluable while we try and secure a more permanent solution.

Celebrate National Distance Ed Week with the ATC! 💻🤓

Join us this week, November 4 - 8, for events celebrating Distance Education! Participate in daily trivia (with raffle entries for each day!) and workshops to enhance your online teaching.

• Trivia & Raffle | Remind Me to Submit (Add Calendar Event): Daily trivia with each day giving an entry to win raffle prizes! Raffle on Nov 8, 11-11:50 am (attendance not required to win). Watch your email and the weekly for the link to the trivia!
  • Submit daily trivia here, opens Nov 4th.

• Workshops (all in the Fusion lab - CEN 219): View full workshop descriptions in the ATC Workshop page or calendar.

• Nov 6, 12-1 pm: Meeting RSI in Distance Ed (Nov 6th - Zoom Link)
• Nov 7, 2-3 pm: Google Workspace & You (Nov 7th - Zoom Link)

Don’t miss it—come celebrate online teaching together! 🎉

🎁 Sign-On with Google or Microsoft Credentials

This past summer, I quietly rolled out a new feature that makes logging into classes.lanecc.edu smoother: you can now use your institutional (@my.lanecc.edu or @lanecc.edu) Google or Microsoft credentials! I'm thrilled to share that it’s already made a big difference for many students, who no longer have to wrestle with remembering their L# and password—just their email login.

And it's not just a win for students! Teachers, rejoice in the convenience of one less click.