Faculty Prep Week • August 14 – 18, 2023
The Center for Integrated Professional Development is ready to help you teach this fall. In addition to the workshops below, check out our many Teaching Resources.
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Workshops
Canvas Open Office Hours
Members of our Canvas support team will be on hand to answer specific questions about setting up your course. Join us in-person at one of the times below. Bring your laptop if you have it. No registration necessary.
Thursday, August 17 • 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Location:
William 325
ReggieNet: Data Backup
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.
Friday, August 18 • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Charles Bristow,
Center for Integrated Professional Development
Rebuilding ReggieNet Lessons in Canvas
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.
Thursday, August 17 • 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Steve Travers,
Center for Integrated Professional Development
Canvas: Getting Started
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.
Thursday, August 17 • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Online
Wednesday, August 16 • 3 p.m. to
4:30
p.m.
Location: WIH 113
Facilitator:
Allison Hauser,
Center for Integrated Professional Development
Tuesday, August 15 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Steve Travers,
Center for Integrated Professional Development
Canvas: Assignments
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.
Monday, August 14 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Alyssa Herman,
Center for Integrated Professional Development
Canvas: Communication Tools
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.
Monday, August 14 • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Linda Summers,
Center for Integrated Professional Development
Canvas: Content Creation
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.
Tuesday, August 15 • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Allison Hauser,
Center for Integrated Professional Development
Canvas: Discussions
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.
Friday, August 18 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Linda Summers,
Center for Integrated Professional Development
Canvas: Grading and Feedback
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.
Monday, August 14 • 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Allison Hauser,
Center for Integrated Professional Development
Canvas: Groups and Collaboration
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.
Wednesday, August 16 • 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Facilitator:
Alyssa Herman,
Center for Integrated Professional Development
Canvas: Modules
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.
Wednesday, August 16 • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Allison Hauser,
Center for Integrated Professional Development
Canvas Studio: Recording and Editing Video
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.
Thursday, August 17 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Greg Maier,
Center for Integrated Professional Development
Canvas Studio: Video Assignments & Assessments
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.
Tuesday, August 15 • 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Tony Piña,
Center for Integrated Professional Development
Canvas Studio: Working with External Video
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.
Wednesday, August 16 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Greg Maier,
Center for Integrated Professional Development
Canvas: Rubrics
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.
Friday, August 18 • 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Stephanie Wilson,
Center for Integrated Professional Development
Canvas: Quizzes
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.
Tuesday, August 15 • 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Stephanie Wilson,
Center for Integrated Professional Development