Technology For Distance Education

Palomar College offers several technology tools to support your teaching and learning.

Canvas Learning Management System

All Palomar College DE Courses are taught using the online classroom provided within our Canvas LMS. If faculty would like to utilize additional online learning opportunities that is ok, however students must access the other platform through the Canvas classroom. Every course that students can enroll in automatically has a Canvas course shell created.

Why is the use of Canvas required?

Per Title 5 and AP 4105, students are authenticated to the online classroom through the colleges official systems.
For accreditation, a random assortment of online courses are reviewed in Canvas, thus the Canvas course must be viewable by the accrediting group if requested.

white exclamation mark in red circle Course must be taught using the official Canvas course provided by the college.

Zoom For Synchronous Meetings

All employees of the California Community Colleges have a Zoom account.

Palomar employees can access their Zoom account through Single Sign On or directly through Zoom by using their network username and password.

Zoom Resources:

white exclamation mark in red circle ZOOM is not intended to be a video storage platform.

Be mindful to download recordings you want to save and publish them in a video storage and sharing platform.

Where can you put your recordings?

Canvas Studio
3CMedia
Online Platforms external to Palomar
- YouTube
- Vimeo

Here is CCCTechConnect's timeline for deleting Zoom recordings:

October 2, 2025: Recordings from 2017 through July 31, 2024, will be deleted.
July 1, 2026: Recordings from August 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025, will be deleted.
July 1, 2027: Recordings from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, will be deleted.
July 1, 2028: Recordings from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027, will be deleted.

Learning Material Creation

Palomar provides numerous tools you can use to create learning materials. You can also use any other programs you have access to! Just be sure everything you create is accessible!

Office 365 (Word, PPT, Excel, and more!)

Every employee gets a full Microsoft Office account. To access your account, use your network username and password.

Go to Office.com, select Sign In, enter your Palomar email address.

Adobe

Employees have access to the Adobe Creative Cloud. To access your account, use your network username and password.

Log-in to Adobe, enter your Palomar email account, select "company or school account"

Video Creation

There are several tools you can use to create videos.

Canvas Studio

Canvas Studio is available within Canvas and allows you to create screen or video recordings. You can also add interactions to your video to increase engagement.

What is Canvas Studio?
How do I access Canvas Studio?
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What file formats does Canvas Studio support?
How do I upload media files in my Canvas Studio account?
How do I add media from YouTube and Vimeo in my Studio account?

Playposit

All CCC Faculty have access to a paid version of PlayPosit through CCCTechConnect. Like Canvas Studio, Playposit provides the opportunity to make your videos interactive.

Overview of TechConnect Video Interactivity Service with PlayPosit
Accessing PlayPosit in Canvas
Linking a 3C Media or Canvas Studio video in PlayPosit
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Learner Experience
PlayPosit Videos from the Vendor

Camtasia

Camtasia might be available to use on Palomar College computers. If you do not have Camtasia on your computer and would like access, please reach out to theIS Helpdesk

Adobe

A couple tools from Adobe you might like to use for video creation are: Adobe Premiere and Adobe Rush

Access information above.

PowerPoint to Video

Did you know you can use PowerPoint to create videos?