Spring 2025 Offerings
Increasing Student Engagement in Asynchronous Courses (Zoom)
Facilitated by Kelly Ruppert
This workshop introduces strategies to encourage active learning in asynchronous courses. We will focus on the benefits of each strategy and ensuring the instructor can maintain a realistic grading load, particularly in large classes. Where applicable, participants will have access to instructional videos that cover how to implement the strategies in Canvas, or using alternate tools where applicable.
Introduction to H5P Training Course (Asynchronous)
This facilitated, asynchronous professional development course introduces the basics of H5P and how to create your own H5P interactives, providing guidance, tutorials, and examples as references or for inspiration. To successfully complete the course and earn your course digital badge, you’ll build your own H5P interactive project and submit it for feedback. Introduction to H5P should take approximately 5-10 hours to complete.
This asynchronous workshop will focus on exploring effective assessment strategies in Canvas. We will examine different learning modes, effective community building strategies, different Canvas assessment methods will be discussed and practiced. We will discuss some strategies for using the Turnitin tool, setting rubrics, grading methods, and peer assessments from within Turnitin. We will briefly discuss AI tools and some strategies to approach in the AI era.
Canvas is a comprehensive Learning Management System (LMS) that enables educators to create, organize, and deliver course content, assessments, and communications in a user-friendly virtual environment, supporting diverse learning modalities such as fully online, hybrid, and face-to-face classes. This asynchronous self-enrollment course equips beginner faculty with essential skills to navigate Canvas, manage courses, enhance student engagement through communication and collaboration tools, and efficiently handle assessments and grading.
Canvas Studio is a powerful video platform and collaboration tool seamlessly integrated with the Canvas learning management system. Through its diverse features, such as video recording, editing tools, annotations, and quizzes, Canvas Studio will enable our faculty to create compelling video content that facilitates better comprehension and knowledge retention. Learn to create, edit, upload, share, and enhance videos to foster interactive learning.
