Fall 2024 Offerings
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.
A toolkit of content types to create engaging, media-rich interactive learning activities and formative assessments for Canvas that will grab students’ attention and promote interaction with course content. 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. More information is on the Introduction to H5P flyer.
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.
This asynchronous workshop will focus on introducing two tools to improve the accessibility of your Canvas course content: Ally and the Accessibility Checker. Ally scans course files such as Word, PPT, and PDF. The Accessibility Checker reviews the pages in Canvas or anywhere else that uses the Rich Content Editor. This workshop will begin with a brief introduction to accessibility. We will then go over detailed information covering the two tools. There will be sample documents and pages for you to practice on. The workshop will end with a brief conclusion.
