Part-Time Faculty Handbook - Ventura College

Just select a course and you are able to perform any of the following tasks:
Post an announcement for the class. This announcement will then show on the portal home
page for both students and the instructor. It will appear in the Personal Alerts channel on the
My College tab of the home page. You may set a time frame for how long you want the
announcement to display. As a recipient, you can click on the announcement to read it and you
are able to delete it at that point, if you wish.
Post news articles. You can also use this section to post the daily or weekly assignments and
their due dates.
Post photos of yourself or any other relevant photos.
Post links to websites of interest to your students.
Upload files for your students to access. This can include documents such as your syllabus,
grading rubrics, handouts, study guides, templates, etc. Another use would be to upload
practice assignments or practice quizzes so that students can prepare for upcoming
assessments. You can also upload PowerPoint presentations, as long as they are no larger than
10MB. This allows students to review or print any or all of the documents they wish.
Send e-mail to individual students, groups of students, or the entire class. When you send to
multiple students, the other student e-mail addresses are blocked so there are no privacy
violations.
Check on members. You may click on any student’s name in your class and see the last time they
logged in. This is useful if you want to be sure students received your announcements or
assignments.
The “My Courses” resource allows students to access information whenever they need it, even if they
missed class. Screen prints demonstrate how to use “My Courses” --
To Access “My Courses”, enter the “MyVCCCD” portal. Click on “My Courses” in the upper right corner.
Select the term and course for which you want to post messages or upload files. Below is a screen print
of the Course Homepage. All functions are listed on the left-hand side of the screen. Simply clicking on
the words allows the function to open.
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