Faculty Prep Week • August 12 – 16, 2024

Canvas Courses

Grading and Feedback

Register by:
Monday, October 7

Synchronous session:
Tuesday, October 8  • 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. 
Online

Register by:
Wednesday, October 9

Synchronous session:
Thursday, October 10 • 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Online

Facilitators:
Allison Hauser, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Addy Lamb, Center for Integrated Professional Development

This is a hands-on tour of how you can use the Canvas Grades features to communicate with your students. You will get a tour of sorting data in the gradebook, using SpeedGrader and the annotation and comments feature. You will have time to try out your skills during the workshop and learn how you can use this a way to motivate your students. Registration is required. 

Create Videos Within Canvas

Register by:
Friday, October 11

Synchronous session:
Monday, October 14 • 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Online

Facilitators:
Tony Piña, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Greg Maier, Center for Integrated Professional Development

You do not have to be a video production specialist to incorporate video into your Canvas courses. Import videos from your computer or record video from your webcam or screen capture—quickly and easily. All videos will be automatically closed captioned. You can record videos once and embed them into multiple courses for teaching, assignments, assessment, and feedback. You can also see how long each of your students has watched your videos. You will also learn how to easily edit your videos and share them with users inside and outside of ISU. Registration is required.

Canvas Studio: Engage Students with Instructor Video

Register by:
Wednesday, October 16

Synchronous session:
Thursday, October 17 • 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Online

Facilitators:
Tony Piña, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Greg Maier, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Students report that courses which incorporate instructor videos into their Canvas courses are much more engaging and effective than those containing only text and still images. In this workshop, you will learn how to build interactivity into your videos by inserting hyperlinks and test questions--turning videos into graded assignments. You can also create assignments where students can record videos within Canvas and submit them as gradable assignments in Canvas SpeedGrader. You can also create video-based discussion boards. This workshop assumes that you have attended the “Create Video Within Canvas” workshop or have used Canvas Studio.  Registration is required.

Building Regular and Substantive Interaction into Your Online

Register by:
Wednesday, October 23

Synchronous session:
Thursday, October 24 • 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Tony Piña, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Explore ways to increase interactivity and engagement within your online courses, while also meeting federal regulations for distance education. Regular and substantive interaction (RSI) is a federal requirement for all online courses that distinguishes “distance education” from “correspondence education”—the latter is ineligible to be paid for by federal financial funding (i.e., the University must return all financial aid tuition used for the course). Come and learn what constitutes RSI and how you can build RSI into your courses. (Hint: You are likely already doing some of this.)  Registration is required.

Quick Start for Canvas

Register by:
Friday, November 1

Synchronous session:
Monday, November 4 • 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Allison Hauser, Center for Integrated Professional Development

New to teaching in Canvas? Still working on building out your Canvas site and need a quick crash course as the semester begins? This workshop packs a lot in just 90 minutes. Learn how to get started with the most important settings and tools, create basic course content using Pages and Modules, communicate with students using Announcements and Inbox, create Assignments, and navigate the Gradebook. The Quick Start for Canvas workshop is a fast-paced combination of several of our most popular workshops all in one.  Registration required.

Canvas Tips All Instructors Should Know

Register by:
Tuesday, November 5

Synchronous session:
Wednesday, November 6 • 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Steve Travers, Center for Integrated Professional Development

Instructors at ISU who are using Canvas have had a year to familiarize themselves with using the LMS. In this workshop, we will briefly discuss several “tips and tricks” that can enhance your Canvas courses. These tips can help you address minor troubleshooting questions, enhance your course design, and streamline your Canvas experience.   Registration is required.

Canvas: Gradebook Clinic

Register by:
Friday, November 30

Monday, December 2 • 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Online 

Register by:
Tuesday, December 3

Wednesday, December 4 • 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Online

Facilitator:
Allison Hauser, Center for Integrated Professional Development

This workshop will focus on how the tools in Canvas can help you grade more effectively and quickly! In addition to covering the basics of entering grades, organizing and weighing assignments, and setting gradebook policies, you'll learn how to use SpeedGrader to quickly view, annotate, and grade a variety of assignments. This workshop will focus on tips, tricks, and features that will help you tackle grading in no time! Registration is required.

Workshop

Preparing your Syllabi 

Synchronous sessions:
Two offerings:
Monday, August 12 • 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, August 15 • 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Locations: 
Wiliams 314 

Facilitators:  
Mayuko Nakamura,  Center for Integrated Professional Development 

Drop by at the syllabi open house and finish or polish your syllabi. If you’re done with your syllabi, we can review them for all necessary components, accessibility, and policies and practices that can help your students succeed in your class. We can also explore how you could use the first day to make it more than a “syllabi day” and have a great start to the semester! Bring your own device with you so you can work on your syllabi. 

This is an open house, so you can stop in, grab a snack and leave anytime during the scheduled time. No registration required.