Teaching Online at FRC

If there is a faculty position open, it will be posted on the Human Resources page. All instructors must complete applications for any open position. 

After You Sign a Contract... 

You will receive an FRC email account. Employee email accounts include your username (your first initial + last name@frc.edu). Your password will be your first initial + the last 4 digits of your Social Security Number + your last initial, small letters. Student usernames include their first + middle initial + last name as their username and first initial + school ID + last initial, small letters for their password.

You will use this login for Canvas access also. 

Do not request help with email accounts or login problems using the help options within Canvas. They do not have campus account information.

Within 24-48 hours of FRC receiving your signed contract to teach at FRC your course will be listed in your "MyFRC" area of the FRC homepage. You will use your email login for this page.The MyFRC area is where you can check employee information, see your official roster, and enter grades at the end of the semester. You may also access Canvas from the MyFRC link. 

Rosters in Canvas will be updated at least once a day at the beginning of the semester and every few days after "Census" day, the deadline for the college to report enrollments to the State (check the Academic Calendar on the Faculty Resources in the Office of Instruction website area for dates). 

Developing Your Online Course

You can develop your course material prior to entering your FRC Canvas course area in two ways. 

1. You can import course material from other Learning Management platforms such as Blackboard or Moodle. Consult your administrator or help files for that LMS for instructions about how to export your course materials so they can be imported into another system without student data. 
2. You can go to the public Canvas site and use their free account feature to develop your course. Creating your course in the public site will ensure that your course design will be compatible with the FRC course environment. Then import the material or features you want to use into the automatically deployed Canvas website area for your course. Your students will not be enrolled in your manually created course and you should not add students to your course area provided by the college. Students should be added from our registration system which may take about one business day after they officially enroll.

Once your course area is available in the FRC Canvas site you can begin developing your course, including importing material from external systems or your courses within the FRC Canvas site. Please visit the Faculty Resources link in Canvas for more tips and recommendations for online teaching. 

Your course materials or any portion of them can be hidden from students until you have completed your course development. However you develop your course please note:

Your Canvas courses will not be visible to students until you "Publish" them using the "Publish" button on the upper right of your course dashboard.