Canvas faculty workshops begin June 18

If you’ll be teaching with Canvas this fall, check out the on-campus training workshops and open labs now scheduled. Sessions begin this week and many more dates and times will be added in the coming weeks. If you can’t make it to campus over the summer, you may also take advantage of many Canvas online learning resources.

 

Offerings

Check the Technology Training calendar >

Canvas Open Lab

This is a drop-in session in A109. Signup is not required.

Canvas Overview

Attend a one-hour session providing you with an overview of the navigation features in Canvas. After attending this session, you should be able to:

• Log in to Canvas and set profile and notifications
• Navigate the Canvas interface
• Set home page, upload a file and post a syllabus
• Create a basic page, module, assignment and a discussion topic

Sign up in the MyBC training calendar (employee NetID required).

Canvas Power Session

After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

• How to get help for Canvas and find answers to questions in Canvas Guides and the Canvas Community
• Log into Canvas and set profile and notifications
• Migration from Blackboard and Publishing your course
• Navigate Canvas interface
• Upload, view and organize files, lock folders and files in the Files tool
• Set your Home Page, and post a Syllabus
• Establish Assignment group structure
• Create a Page, Module, Assignment and a Discussion topic
• How to embed media in a content
• Create Quizzes
• Grading Assignments in the SpeedGrader and Gradebook

Sign up in the MyBC training calendar (employee NetID required).

Workshops

2 hour Canvas training sessions will also be offered if you’re looking for more comprehensive, formal training of the tool.

Resources and Migrating Content

Sign up in the MyBC training calendar (employee NetID required).

• Module 1 – Canvas Overview

• Module 2 – Migrating Content

After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Find answers to your questions in Canvas Guides and the Canvas Community
• How to search the Canvas Guides
• How to get help and submit feedback
• Use the dashboard
• Navigating in a Canvas course
• Migration from Blackboard
• Upload, view and organize files
• Adding a file
• Adding a folder
• Moving and organizing files
• Locking folders and files
• Learn why to use pages in Canvas
• Upload the course syllabus
• Create a simple module

Creating Modules and Assignments

Sign up in the MyBC training calendar (employee NetID required).

• Module 3 – Home Page and Syllabus

• Module 4 – Creating Modules

• Module 5 – Assignments and Discussions

After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Upload the course syllabus and setup your home page
• Create a simple module
• Add announcements
• Create an announcement
• Add an image to an announcement
• Establish assignment group structure
• Add assignment groups and create assignments
• Edit assignment details
• Add different online submission types
• Restrict online submission file types
• Create discussions
• Add media to a discussion topic
• Set up a graded discussion
• How to embed media in a content Page
• Upload, view and organize files
• Lock folders and files
• Add a rubric to an assignment

Quizzes and Gradebook 

Sign up in the MyBC training calendar (employee NetID required).

• Module 6 – Quizzes

• Module 7 – Grade Book

After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Create a simple Quiz
• Add various types of questions to a quiz
• Edit properties for a quiz
• Extend time for a quiz
• Add questions from question banks
• Use question groups and question banks to customize      quizzes
• Grading Assignments in the SpeedGrader™  and      Gradebook
• Get to the SpeedGrader™ from an assignment or a graded      discussion
• Evaluate an assignment in SpeedGrader™
• Open the rubric in SpeedGrader™
• Leave feedback for my students in SpeedGrader™
• Enter and edit scores in the Canvas gradebook
• Send a message to my students in the gradebook

 

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  Published: September 13, 2012   

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