Continuity of Learning for Instructors

Continuity of learning means sustaining effective teaching during campus closures through digital methods that deliver instruction, engage students, and support their learning goals.

TAMU-CC uses the Code Blue Emergency Notification System to alert the campus community of emergencies, including campus closures. If classes are canceled, send a Canvas announcement to inform students, reschedule work, and remind them not to complete assignments during official closures.

Using Canvas in the Event of Campus Closure

TAMU-Corpus Christi’s Canvas Learning Management System allows you to continue teaching your course or courses in the event of a campus evacuation or closure. Below are some resources to help you teach online.

Course Organization: The more organized your online class is, the easier it will be for your students to use. Begin by mapping out your course content.
- Adding Content: (Notes, Video, PowerPoint slides) Use Canvas’s content features to add content and organize a variety of media items such as text, graphics, and video. Use the guides below to help you add content to your course.
- Create topic or module folders for your lessons to contain the content you will utilize.
  - Creating Modules in Canvas
  - Adding Content to Canvas Modules
- View the features of the Canvas text editor to learn how to use it to create content.
- Helpful guides to add other content to your course.
  - Adding a Canvas Page
  - Adding Web Links

Communication and Collaboration: Create class announcements, discussions, and other forms of interactions to help promote learning.
- Creating Announcements in Canvas
- Send email messages using Canvas Inbox
- Zoom web-conferencing
- Creating Discussions
- Creating Groups
Creating Assignments: Use the Canvas assignment feature to create activities and have students submit them for grading.
- Creating Assignments
Creating Assessments: Use the Canvas Quiz feature to create quizzes and exams.
- Creating Quizzes
Grading in Canvas: Use Canvas “SpeedGrader” to grade student submissions, activities, and assessments.
- Canvas SpeedGrader
- How do I use Canvas Gradebook

Canvas: Academic Digital Resource Center (A-DRC) is your one-stop shop for digital resources designed to empower you when digitizing your curriculum. The A-DRC was created in response to faculty requests for centralized resources pertinent to academic instruction.  This resource center includes:

a catalog of resources on a variety of pedagogical and technical topics,
on-demand training videos and how-to guides,
discussion community to support interdisciplinary collaboration and foster idea sharing, and
a schedule of professional development opportunities available throughout the academic year.

Tutorials and Guides: 

Digital Learning and Academic Innovations staff will make every effort to support you as you continue teaching your students in the event of a campus closure. The best way to contact staff during campus closure is via dlai@tamucc.edu.

Continuity of Learning for Instructors

Using Canvas in the Event of Campus Closure

Getting started and accessing your course online

Guides for continuity of learning in the event of campus closure

Additional resources

Digital Learning and Academic Innovations (DLAI)