Spring 2025 Flex Day

The "new Proctorio": Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor Essentials

7:15 AM - 8:15 AM | Kelly Ruppert

This workshop provides an in-depth understanding of Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor tools which verify students' identities and secure quizzes/exams given in Canvas. Attendees learn how to set up and manage remotely proctored exams in Canvas and evaluate quizzes and webcam recordings for integrity. Attendees also learn how and when to transition from Proctorio to Respondus and where they can find general support and support specific to Coastline faculty and staff.

Location: Room 315 | Audience: Faculty

President's Address

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Dr. Vince Rodriguez, Ed.D.

President Rodriguez, along with the President’s Cabinet, will introduce new employees and reflect on the college's past, present, and future. This will include an update on the Institutional Self-Evaluation Report (ISER) status.

Location: Rooms 122 and 315 | Audience: All

Coast Federation of Educators (CFE)

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM | Robert Schneiderman

Review of issues facing the faculty union in 2024-25 and plans for the future.

Location: Room 122 | Audience: Faculty covered by CFE contract

CDMA/Management Session

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM | Christina Oja

Managers will be provided an update on Title IX requirements and responsibilities.

Location: Room 258/259 | Audience: Managers

Classified Senate Meeting

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM | Anna Isbell

Join us for our upcoming Classified Senate meeting! This is a great opportunity to connect with your colleagues, share insights, and stay informed about the latest college news and updates. Your voice matters, and we want to hear from you! We look forward to seeing you there!

Location: Room 315 | Audience: Classified Professionals

Coast CCA Union Meeting

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM | Lynn Buller

The Coast CCA union represents part-time faculty who teach less than 7.5 LHE a semester. Join this session to learn about your benefits, rights, and for an opportunity to ask questions.

Location: Room 250/251 | Audience: Part-time Faculty

Coastline Webpage Content Management through Cascade

11:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Sazeda Sultana and Josh Waite

This training is for web page owners and editors. In this session, we’ll cover the key roles, the fundamentals of updating your page content, and the support available from the Marketing department. With a bit of training, anyone can manage their web pages with confidence!

Location: Room 315 | Audience: All

How to Make Your Course More Career Relevant

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Paolo Varquez

Join fellow faculty to explore and share impactful ways to make your courses more career relevant. Discover new ideas, exchange strategies, and help students connect classroom learning to their future careers.

Location: Room 203 | Audience: Faculty

Math Across the Curriculum (I'm looking at you English) and how Math Center can help

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Hao-Nhien Vu

There is Math integrated inside all disciplines within a community college setting. That includes such far flung subjects as fine arts and English. Such inclusion of Math should be encouraged, to provide students with a holistic education for success in life. I'll show examples across the curriculum and also talk about how the Math Center can help our colleagues in other disciplines with Math integration in their courses.

Location: Room 204 | Audience: Faculty

Service Excellence the Disney Way – Part II

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Randy Flint

Disney has set the benchmark for outstanding, intentional customer service.  How do we take what we learned in Part I and apply it to our jobs at Coastline College?  Come and find out. Please bring your ears!!!

Location: Room 122 | Audience: All

Biological Sciences and Allied Health (BIOL, BIOTECH, ECOL, ENVS, MRSC)

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Deborah Henry and David Camerini

Biological Science and Allied Health Department meeting updates: Curriculum changes including Pre-Medical Studies Certificate and Work Experience Education, Program Review, S-STEM and MESA grant, JS Dissection Program and potential donation, Pre-Med and Gardening Club, Tutoring Experience in SSRC, and RSI.

Location: Room 302 | Audience: Faculty

Business (Business and Management)

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Erin Thomas

The Business Department welcomes all faculty teaching in business, management, accounting, economics and related fields to join us for an interactive discussion around these topics:

1. Highlights of the Business/Management Program Review for 2024-2025
2. Takeaways from key fall conferences: Colegas, CBExchange, ASCM, others - this is your time to share!
3. Regular and Substantive interaction with students: review of department policy and preparation for ACCJC assessment of our RSI in Spring 2025.
4. Tips and tricks in Canvas and MyCoast Portal
5. Defining the process for reviewing and approving BUS/MGMT credit for prior learning (CPL)

Other disciplines and staff are welcome to join us.

Location: Room 258/259 | Audience: All

Communication Studies and Mass Communication

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Joshua Levenshus

Legislative and curriculum changes that have occurred and the impacts on the discipline will be discussed.

Location: Room 203 | Audience: Faculty

Counseling

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Rachel Marchioni

Review of program, procedures, subject updates, and best practices to effectively serve our students. This meeting aims to foster teamwork and ensure that all voices are heard to better serve our students.

Location: Room 204 | Audience: All

English and Humanities

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Marilyn Brock

The English & Humanities FLEX Discipline meeting will focus on enhancing program impact through program review and curriculum development. The meeting will guide English & Humanities faculty through a comprehensive review of our Program Review findings, focusing on data-driven insights and their implications for our department’s strategic goals. We’ll explore methods for aligning program outcomes with current student needs and institutional priorities.

Location: Room 205 | Audience: Faculty

English as a Second Language (ESL)

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Marc Kepler

The pending split of the ESL program into ESL and ELL will be discussed, as well as best practices for retaining students and helping them to be successful and program needs for next year's program review.

Location: Room 206 | Audience: Faculty

Health Sciences (HLTH, PE, FN, KIN)

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Laurie Runk

This session will focus on re-designing curriculum to support the appropriate use of AI while maintaining academic integrity. Through discussion and hands-on activities, faculty will learn how to create meaningful, real-world assignments that encourage authentic student engagement, minimizing AI reliance that could hinder learning. We’ll explore strategies for teaching students to use AI as a learning tool rather than a shortcut, with assignments that emphasize critical thinking, professional application, and ethical standards./p>

Location: Room 250/251 | Audience: Faculty

International Languages

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | David Fuchs

Foreign languages certificates Spanish 280 and 285 for ADT 8 weeks Summer courses and AB 1111 compliance will be reviewed.

LOCATION: ROOM 304 | Audience: Faculty

Library

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Elizabeth Horan

Review, designing or re-designing of curriculum to support hope scholars.

LOCATION: Room 253 | Audience: Faculty

Mathematics

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Lisa Lee

We will discuss the student survey results from our Math Program Review. Also, revise the RSI Requirements and Addendum for the online course audit.

Location: Room 122 | Audience: Faculty

Physical Science (ASTR, CHEM, GEOL, PHYS)

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Kelly Ruppert

Join the Physical Sciences Department as we discuss our Program Review submitted Fall of 2025. We will discuss what is in it and how that might affect what we do as faculty in this department. We will also discuss the accessibility tool chosen by the district. Come learn how to scan your courses with it and how to fix errors!

Location: Room 202 | Audience: Faculty

Psychology

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Erin Johnson

Review discipline program review, RSI requirements, and curriculum.

Location: Room 353 | Audience: Faculty

Social Science (ANTH, ECON, ETHS, GEOG, HIST, PSCI)

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Stacey Smith and Dan Johnson

Department chairs and faculty will discuss the 2023-2024 Annual Program Review findings and initiatives, curriculum updates, support services for students, and the newly approved RSI plan updates.

Location: Room 315 | Audience: Faculty

Sociology, Human Services, and Gerontology

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Sasha Montero

The department program review will be discussed and implementation of DEISAA curriculum will be reviewed.

Location: Room 352 | Audience: Faculty

Technology (BC, CIS, CYBR, ICS and IT)

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Tobi West

As technology continues to evolve and change, so does our curriculum. We strive to provide up to date program options and course content to ensure that our students will be prepared for a successful career in technology. Learn more about our vision for the department and upcoming changes and additions. We will briefly discuss an overview of the curriculum process for Career Education.

Location: Room 350 | Audience: Faculty

Canvas Updates

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Sylvia Amito'elau

See the awesome and amazing Feature Options and tools that were recently made available in Canvas. Participants will have the hands-on opportunity to try them out.

Location: Room 206 | Audience: Faculty

Gender & Sexuality 101: Going Above and Beyond

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Allison Kendrix

Reach beyond terms and definitions and dive into LGBTQIA+ expansive and inclusive practices. We will learn inclusive language, best practices for student facing positions as well as engage in scenario training.

Location: Room 315 | Audience: All

How to Work Smarter and Save Time Using AI

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Paolo Varquez

Do you want to work smarter and save time? In this hands-on session, you'll learn intermediate-level prompts to use in generative AI to improve your productivity, creativity, and decision-making. Please bring your laptops!

Location: Room 122 | Audience: All

At The Table: Lessons From Our Queer Ancestors

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM | Allison Kendrix

This workshop will dive into the Black and Queer practices of Sankofa and Chosen Family. At a time where great resistance and action is needed, we hope to build practices rooted in wisdom. We will spend time learning from the life and work of Queer Ancestors such as Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Pauli Murray more. We hope to build our own table of wisdom and resistance. Workshop includes videos, music and pair sharing activities.

Location: Room 315 | Audience: All

Keyboard Magic: Transform Your Workflow with Key Commands and Settings

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM | Cody Pontius

We'll take a deep dive into different key commands and settings to help you be more efficient and save you clicks and taps! We'll start from the basics for everyone and cover more advanced tips for power users. Please have your laptops available.

Location: Room 122 | Audience: Classified Professionals

Launching our DA CBE Management Degree

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM | Erin Thomas and Nate Harrison

We are getting ready to launch the state's first direct assessment, competency-based education (CBE) degree! Come see a demo of a CBE course and learn about how we'll be operationally managing this program.

Location: Room 258/259 | Audience: All

Coast Federation Classified Professionals (CFCP) Union Meeting

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Michael Carrizo

Topics for this session include:

1. Union Affiliation - standing in solidarity.
2. CFT Summer School opportunity.
3. CFCP Officer Elections - timeline and process.
4. Negotiations Update
5. Open discussions for your questions.

Location: Room 122 | Audience: Classified Professionals

CourseLeaf Curriculum Inventory Management (CIM) Preview

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Melissa Rowden and Erin Thomas

This presentation will focus on the status of the Curriculum Learning Management system transition including timelines and general questions. A short demonstration of new features and processes may be available.

Location: Room 315 | Audience: Faculty

The "new Proctorio": Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor Essentials

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Kelly Ruppert

This workshop provides an in-depth understanding of Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor tools which verify students' identities and secure quizzes/exams given in Canvas. Attendees learn how to set up and manage remotely proctored exams in Canvas and evaluate quizzes and webcam recordings for integrity. Attendees also learn how and when to transition from Proctorio to Respondus and where they can find general support and support specific to Coastline faculty and staff.

Location: Room 258/259 | Audience: Faculty

Canvas Updates

5:45 PM - 6:45 PM | Cody Pontius

See the awesome and amazing Feature Options and tools that were recently made available in Canvas. Participants will have the hands-on opportunity to try them out.

Location: Room 204 | Audience: Faculty

Course Declutter and Accessibility Review

5:45 PM - 6:45 PM | Eric Wilson

This workshop empowers faculty to streamline their course content and ensure accessibility for all students. Participants will learn practical strategies for decluttering course materials and conducting accessibility reviews using tools like TidyUP and UDOIT Advantage. By the end of this session, participants will enhance course organization, improve navigation, and ensure equitable learning experiences for diverse learners.

Location: Room 206 | Audience: Faculty

Streamlining Secure Exams: Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor Essentials

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Eric Wilson

This workshop will provide an in-depth understanding of Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor, tools designed to ensure secure online assessments. Attendees will learn how to set up and manage proctored exams in Canvas, review faculty and student requirements, and evaluate quizzes and webcam recordings for integrity. By the end of this session, faculty will be equipped to confidently implement and review proctored assessments with Respondus tools.

Location: Room 206 | Audience: Faculty