Fall 2025, Resolution Number 111.05
Whereas, All openly licensed resources created with Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Program funds must be shared, but California Education Code §78052[1] specifies that “Testing and assessment materials posted online pursuant to this paragraph shall be safeguarded to maintain the integrity of those materials.”;
Whereas, Canvas Commons is a platform for sharing complete Canvas courses with all Canvas users who have instructor status, providing a mechanism for limiting the users that can access Canvas Commons, but making resources available to users with specified credentials at over 8000 institutions[2];
Whereas, There is a California Community College Canvas Commons that could be used to limit the access to resources created by California Community College faculty to only users with the appropriate permissions within the system, decreasing the opportunity for assessments within shared courses to be accessed by inappropriate users, yet less than 25% of colleges in the system have made the California Community College Canvas Commons available to their faculty (G. Grace, personal communication, n.d.); and
Whereas, The use of a Canvas Commons that only houses resources developed and used by faculty in the California Community Colleges would facilitate discovery of these resources;
Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges recognize the California Community College Canvas Commons as an appropriate platform for faculty to minimize access to Canvas resources that should only be available to faculty; and
Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges encourages local academic senates to advocate for making the California Community Colleges Canvas Commons available for local use.