Canvas Open Office Hours and Workshops - Weeks of Aug. 7 & 14

The following message was emailed to instructors and staff on 08/04/2023

Dear Colleagues,

The Center for Integrated Professional Development will hold special walk-in office hours on Tuesday, August 8 and again on Thursday, Aug. 17. Both sessions will be held in Williams Hall 325 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Members of our Canvas support team will be on hand to answer specific questions about setting up your course. Bring your laptop if you have it. No registration is necessary.

In addition, we’re offering a whole range of workshops in the two weeks leading up to the start of classes. Workshops are listed below by date. You can also browse workshops by topic on the Center’s website.Select a date and time to register through the My.IllinoisState portal. Seating is limited. For online workshops, participants will receive a Zoom link about one day before the event. If you need a special accommodation to fully participate in a workshop, please contact the Center at (309) 438-2542 or ProDev@ilstu.edu.

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Canvas: Getting Started

Wednesday, August 9 • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Williams 113

Facilitator:
Allison Hauser, Center for Integrated Professional Development

This workshop covers basic questions about where to find your classes, how to navigate the dashboard and your courses. You will learn how to move part or all of your course from one Canvas shell to another one, settings for the course, adding files and ways to manage how your students see the content. There will be time for hands-on practice and questions about your particular courses. Registration is required.

Canvas: Getting Started

Thursday, August 10 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Steve Travers, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Canvas: Communication Tools

Monday, August 14 • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Linda Summers, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Canvas has many options available to communicate using text, audio, and video. During this session, you’ll learn about the features, options, and notifications of the primary tools you can use to post information, set up appointments, provide support, and facilitate interaction. Participants will explore Announcements, Appointment Group, Inbox, Analytics, Discussions, and Grades. Registration is required.

Canvas: Assignments
Monday, August 14 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Alyssa Herman, Center for Integrated Professional Development

This workshop provides a tour of the Canvas Assignments tool. Unlike ReggieNet’s Assignments tool, Canvas’s Assignments tool houses all course assignments—including discussions, assignments, quizzes, attendance, and more. During this workshop, you will learn how to create, organize, and weight assignment groups and how this affects other tools in your course like Syllabus, Modules, and Grades. You will also be introduced to assignment settings and rules, bulk editing assignments, and how the Attendance (Roll Call) tool impacts assignments and grading. Registration is required.

Canvas: Quizzes

Tuesday, August 15 • 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Stephanie Wilson, Center for Integrated Professional Development

The Canvas Quiz tool features some very useful and exciting features you can use to provide assessment and practice opportunities for your students. It works differently than the tool found in ReggieNet. You will see the types of questions, the difference between Canvas’s Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes, and the features of each. You will also see demonstrations of grading quizzes and creating questions in both Quiz engines. Registration is required.

Canvas: Content Creation

Tuesday, August 15 • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Allison Hauser, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Canvas offers powerful tools to organize the content of your course. In this session, you will explore how Canvas Pages can be designed to contain text, hyperlinks, images, multimedia, and other types of digital content. Using Pages to design your course can also make it more visually appealing, helping increase student engagement and allowing more intuitive navigation. Participants will explore Pages, the Rich Content Editor, Announcements, and modifying their Course Home Page. Registration is required.

Canvas: Getting Started

Tuesday, August 15 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Steve Travers, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Canvas Studio: Video Assignments & Assessments

Tuesday, August 15 • 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Tony Piña, Center for Integrated Professional Development

With Canvas Studio, you will not only be able to create video for your courses, your students will also be able to create and upload videos for their assignments and participate in video discussions. In this session, you will learn how to add quiz questions to your videos, how to add video quizzes to your gradebook, create assignments where student can submit videos, create video-based discussion boards and how to use video for grading and feedback. Registration is required.

Canvas: Groups and Collaboration

Wednesday, August 16 • 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Alyssa Herman, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Groups (a tool under People) is a complex feature in Canvas that allows you to integrate collaboration in your course. During this advanced workshop, you will receive an overview of how to set up Groups and how to use Groups in a variety of other tools in Canvas—including Inbox, Discussions, Announcements, Files, Assignments, and SpeedGrader. Because the Groups tool is an advanced feature, we recommend that you first attend the Assignments workshop and the Communication Tools workshop, so that you are familiar with those tools before adding Groups to the mix. Registration is required.

Canvas: Modules

Wednesday, August 16 • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Allison Hauser, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Unique to Canvas and highly customizable, Modules is a helpful tool for organizing content to help set the flow of your course. During this workshop, you will get an overview of Modules, including the ways it can benefit your courses. You’ll also learn about creating Modules and see the different strategies for managing the Modules you create. Registration is required.

Canvas Studio: Working with External Video

Wednesday, August 16 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Greg Maier, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Canvas Studio allows you to record, edit, manage, and share videos—all from within Canvas. In this session, you will learn how to download your videos from Microsoft Stream and ReggieNet and deploy them within Canvas. You will also be able to import and embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo and from your OneDrive account. Registration is required.

Canvas: Getting Started

Wednesday, August 16 • 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Williams Hall 113

Facilitator:
Allison Hauser, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Rebuilding ReggieNet Lessons in Canvas

Thursday, August 17 • 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Steve Travers, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Although Canvas does not have an equivalent application to ReggieNet Lessons, Canvas Pages can be used in combination with Canvas Modules to duplicate much of ReggieNet Lesson design. Rather than having to rebuild from the ground up in Canvas, this workshop covers a simple process for rebuilding much of ReggieNet Lessons in Canvas. The content of this workshop applies best to those who have not had or plan to have ReggieNet courses migrated to Canvas, or for those who want to replace migrated content. This workshop is not intended for those wanting to edit existing Canvas content. Registration is required.

Canvas: Getting Started

Thursday, August 17 • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Allison Hauser, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Canvas Studio: Recording and Editing Video

Thursday, August 17 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Greg Maier, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Canvas Studio allows you to record, edit, manage, and share videos—all from within Canvas. In this session, you will learn how to record your webcam, your computer (or both) for use in announcements, pages, discussions, and even quizzes and grading. You will learn how to edit videos using simple tools (cut, trim), how to add closed captions, annotations, and how to share your videos inside and outside of ISU. Registration is required.

Canvas: Rubrics

Friday, August 18 • 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Stephanie Wilson, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Rubrics can be used to clarify goals and inspire better student performance. They can also make grading easier, faster, and consistent and reduce bias. They are especially helpful with discussions and essays. We will cover using scoring and non-scoring rubrics, how they work in SpeedGrader and how to build and reuse them. This is a hands-on workshop so you will have a chance to practice building rubrics in your course. Registration is required.

ReggieNet: Data Backup

Friday, August 18 • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Charles Bristow, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Instructors can ensure that parts of their ReggieNet courses sites are backed up before the system is retired at the end of 2023. This workshop will show you methods for saving documents and media files, exporting quizzes, including question pools, and saving gradebooks. It will also explore strategies for saving things which don’t have export capabilities, like students’ responses to discussion posts. Registration is required.

Canvas: Discussions

Friday, August 18 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Linda Summers, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Canvas Discussions includes an array of features you can use to increase social presence, promote student interaction, and strengthen the learning community in your course. In addition to basic features and more traditional design options, this session will share tips and tricks of how to adjust settings, design forums, and manage access. Registration is required.