About us
In spring 2021, the DACC Faculty Council unanimously voted in favor of adopting a Canvas requirement for the institution to be effective beginning in fall 2021. As an effort to provide consistency for our students and to set an institutional expectation for our faculty, all DACC courses, regardless of modality, will utilize Canvas for the minimum purposes of course communication between student and instructor and for grade transparency. This requires all DACC courses to provide a Canvas course shell that will include, at a minimum, the following items:
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A Home Page with the course and instructor information.
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Canvas email is the exclusive email for communication between students and instructors.
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Gradebook tool for consistent transparency of a student’s performance.
Online at DACC
Online courses are an essential part of our educational offerings. In these links, faculty are provided with guidelines and expectations to assist in developing their online courses.
Quality Matters
Doña Ana Community College has made the commitment to quality assurance for online learning by adopting Quality Matters as its quality assurance system.
Professional Development
There are many opportunities at DACC and NMSU to support, reinforce, and extend the DACC commitment for designing and developing high-quality online courses.
Course Design
Design your course efficiently and effectively using best practices instructional design concepts specifically tailored to the online learning environment.
- Course Map
- Design Resources
- Universal Design For Learning
- Canvas Course Template
- Open Education Resources: Merlot, Khan Academy, and Workforce Development
Course Delivery
Discover the pedagogy of online learning and teaching with resources that help you consider presence, interaction and effective communication
Artificial Intelligence Resources
Guidance for DACC faculty and staff for the online course development and use of Artificial Intelligence tools in developing courses, preparing students, and daily work.