Online Teaching Certification & Resources

Enroll Today: RCCD-Purchased @ONE Course!

RCCD is working with @ONE to offer RCCD faculty exclusive access to the following District Academic Senate-approved courses. We will have cohorts in June and July. If you're interested in this option, please complete this @ONE Course Interest form.

Once you submit, you get two follow-up emails: 1) "Thanks for your interest!" and 2) "Register with this link!" The first acknowledgement email should arrive within 24 hours of submitting the form. The second email will be sent 1-2 weeks before the start date for your course. It will contain the registration link, login information, and CVC-@ONE support contact info.


List of @ONE Course Options

• Creating Accessible Course Content (4 weeks, 40 hours, facilitated)
• Humanizing Online Teaching (4 weeks, 40 hours, facilitated) 
• Introduction to Course Design (4 weeks, 40 hours, facilitated)
• 10*10*10: Communication that Matters (4 weeks, 40 hours, facilitated)

Summer Cohort Dates (4-week courses)

• June 22 - July 17 (some cohorts full)
• July 6 - July 31
• July 20 - August 14

Automatic Certification: No submission needed!

If you complete RCCD-exclusive @ONE training, your results will be automatically reported to District DE. Once we have updated our records, we will send you a confirmation email. This email will contain your Recertification date.

Compensation Available

If you complete one of the RCCD-purchased @ONE courses (before December 2026), the following compensation is available:

• Part-Time Faculty will receive $750. Upon completion, your name will automatically be reported to District Payroll (who will follow their own internal timetables and deadlines). You will not need to take any further actions. 
• Full-Time Faculty will receive 16 hours of FLEX credit, 3 of which may be applied to Equity. Upon completion, your name will automatically be reported to the Faculty Development Committee Chairs. Please follow your normal FLEX reporting processes; they will use our reported list to verify your work.

Are you interested in completing a Peer-to-Peer Review?

This option allows seasoned DE instructors with intermediate and advanced online course design, accessibility, and RSI skills to submit a fully built online or hybrid course for peer review. Specific elements of your course will be reviewed using the faculty-designed Peer-to-Peer DE Certification Rubric. If you’d like to explore this option further, you can self-enroll in the Peer-to-Peer Review (DE Certification) course shell.

Note:  Review will resume in the fall. But you can start prepping for your review this summer. Complete the Peer-to-Peer Review Interest Form to get started today!


Automatic Certification: No submission needed!

If you complete RCCD's Peer-to-Peer Review process, your results will be automatically reported to District DE. Once they have updated their records, they will send you a confirmation email. This email will contain your Recertification date.

Compensation Available

If you complete the Peer-to-Peer Review process (before December 2026), the following compensation is available:

• Part-Time Faculty will receive $750. Upon completion, your name will automatically be reported to District Payroll (who will follow their own internal timetables and deadlines). You will not need to take any further actions. 
• Full-Time Faculty will receive 16 hours of FLEX credit, 3 of which may be applied to Equity. Upon completion, your name will automatically be reported to the Faculty Development Committee Chairs. Please follow your normal FLEX reporting processes; they will use our reported list of names to verify your work.

If you have completed any of the following, then you can request an Equivalency Review.

• DE Certification training in another district
• Another district's Local POCR process to earn a CVC "Quality Reviewed" badge
• An approved @ONE course directly from @ONE (click the Equivalency Review link to see the approved list)

Do you only teach in-person classes?

Some faculty teach courses only offered in person. If that is the case, you do not need to be DE Certified--even if you use Canvas as part of the instruction for your class. Only faculty teaching courses designated as online or hybrid need to be certified.

Confirm that you do not need to be certified.

If you are only teaching in person and do not plan to change, please confirm that you will not pursue DE Certification.

• ​New Faculty -- Newly hired part-time and full-time faculty who wish to teach online and hybrid will have one year to complete one (1) of the certification options while simultaneously teaching online and hybrid courses. This one-year clock starts in their first semester of employment. New faculty should contact the District DE office during their first semester for further information.
• Current, Uncertified Faculty -- Current faculty who are uncertified under the previous certification requirements (prior to 2021) who wish to teach online and hybrid courses will have one year to complete one (1) of the certification options. This one-year clock starts the semester they teach an online or hybrid course. The College's VPAAs will send an email notification confirming the one-year due date to complete the certification requirements.
• Current OCA Certified Faculty -- Current faculty who are certified under the previous certification requirements (Online Canvas Academy) who wish to teach online and hybrid courses will have three (3) years to complete one (1) of the certification options. 
  • NOTE: Per the revised DE MOU (4/13/26), the new DE Certification deadline for most RCCD faculty is December 31, 2026. Faculty can also receive compensation for this work. See information above.

• Requirement: After completing one (1) of the District's Online Teaching Certification options above, faculty who wish to continue teaching online or hybrid courses will need to complete six (6) hours of training focused on distance education. Upon completion of all six (6) hours, faculty must upload evidence as proof of completion (link coming soon).
• Timeline: To keep their certification current, faculty need to meet the recertification requirement every three (3) academic years.
• Options: Faculty may choose district training courses and workshops and/or non-district DE training focused on distance education to meet the recertification requirement. 
• Notification: The College's VPAAs will send an email notification confirming the one-year due date to complete the certification requirements. You can also check your Certification Status inside the DE Instructor Resource shell in Canvas.
• FLEX Credit: Faculty can also earn PD/FLEX credit for this DE training.

• On Oct. 27, 2025, the District Academic Senate voted to expand the Online Teaching Certification Equivalency option. For faculty curious about the accepted list of @ONE courses to achieve DE Certification, please see the Equivalency Review Process page for more information.
• The revised DE MOU (4/13/26) outlines the certification options that are available for compensation.
• The current DE Certification due date (for most faculty) is December 31, 2026. Please check the DE Instructor Resource shell for your certification status and due date.

Each college has an Academic Senate sub-committee focused on Distance Education issues. Feel free to reach out to the DE Committee Chairs if you have any questions or would like to become more involved.

Riverside City College

• DE Committee Chair: James Rocillo​
• Distance Education Committee Webpage

​Moreno Valley College

• DE Committee Chair: Kyla Rankin
• Distance Education Committee Webpage

Norco College

• DE Committee Chair: Sandra Popiden​
• Distance Education Committee Webpage

​Administrative Procedure (AP) 2105 Distance Education - PDF (as approved by District Senate on March 15, 2021) details the district practices for online courses. To help Faculty apply AP2105, Regular Substantive Interaction Guidelines (as approved by District Senate on May 24, 2021) have been developed and approved by the DE Committees and Academic Senates at all three colleges. Contact your college DE Committee Chair (see links above) if you have any questions. Faculty can also contact an Instructional​ Designer to discuss the requirements and guidelines.​

The ACCJC provides a Checklist for Evaluating Compliance - DOCX and also a Guide to Institutional Self-Evaluation Improvement and Peer Review (Appendix H) - PDF that details requirements for equivalent quality, accountability, and focus on student outcomes.