SDSU Coronavirus (COVID-19) Virtual Instruction Resources

The information on this page is intended to help keep your course running as smoothly as possible during the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak. We hope you find these ideas and recommendations helpful.

Virtual Faculty Instructional Technology (FIT) Center Support

The Virtual FIT Center provides faculty with live support, via Zoom, for instructional tools such as Canvas. Our instructional technology consultants will meet with you to help you get started, show you how to use the application as a pedagogical tool and explain best practices. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us:

Virtual FIT Center*
M-F: 7:30am – 5:00pm
*Closed SDSU holidays

Contact Our Support Team via ServiceNow Service Portal

Please direct student support questions here

Self-Guided Instructional Resources

The Flexible Course Design Toolkit offers 18 modules to assist faculty with online, hybrid, and blended teaching skills and knowledge. Topics include fostering social presence within the online modality, promoting student engagement with in-video quizzing, collaborating with Google Workspace, utilizing an array of Canvas features, and other related tools and topics.

The Flexible Course Design Institute (Flex-CDI) offers the toolkit content, which is available as a resource that you can move through at your own pace. To preview the content of the Canvas course, please use the toolkit course link. To add this course to your Canvas account, please use the toolkit enroll link.

The Canvas Support Homeroom is a Canvas course with helpful resources regarding Canvas, including the SDSU Canvas Course Template. To preview the content of the Homeroom, please use the Canvas course link. To add this course to your courses, please use the Canvas enroll link.

Student Support

You can also provide your students with this one-stop link for virtual support: https://academichelp.sdsu.edu/.

Up-to-Date Resources about Responding to Coronavirus (COVID-19)

SDSU has introduced an informational webpage on Coronavirus (COVID-19), which is regularly updated. Please visit this page for campus updates and additional information.

The CSU Chancellor’s Office has also established a CSU Coronavirus webpage where all communications, information, and resources can be found in one location. This site will be updated on a regular basis.

SDSU Emergency Resources

The SDSU Office of Emergency Preparedness is the home for emergency preparedness resources.