The staff from Learning & Innovative Technologies (L&IT) and the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE), along with campus partners, invite faculty to join us for Canvas support open hours and workshops.
We request that you have some knowledge of Canvas, either prior experience, using the guides and/or videos in the Canvas Community, or through one of the recommended self-paced learning paths such as the Growing with Canvas course. These sessions are not meant to be basic Canvas training topics.
Canvas Support Open Hours
Consultants will be able to address questions related to:
- Managing migrated Sakai content
- IC Blueprint and course design
- Media and resource management
- Accessing IC-approved external third-party tools (Zoom, Kaltura, iRubric, Teams, and more)
- Canvas <--> Sakai comparisons
Small group sessions will be held remotely over Zoom in breakout rooms. Small group in-person sessions will be held in the listed locations. Please register in advance using the link(s) provided, including completing the Canvas Support Open Hours Registration Survey (also linked in your Zoom registration confirmation email).
If you are not able to register in advance, you can still join us for any of this week's open hours.
Remote and In-Person Sessions
- Tuesday, August 17 @ 3:00-4:30 pm
- In-person - Library Classroom, Gannett Center 319
- Remote - Zoom Registration link
- Thursday, August 19 @ 3:00-4:30 pm
- In-person - Library Classroom, Gannett Center 319
- Remote - Zoom Registration link
- Friday, August 20 @ 2:00-3:30 pm
- In-person - Flexible Learning Lab, Friends 110c
- Remote - Zoom Registration link
Canvas Workshops
All workshops will be led by Marilyn Dispensa, Senior Instructional Designer, Center for Faculty Excellence
Using the IC Canvas Blueprint to Design your Canvas Course (1 + 1/2 hour Q&A)
- Monday, August 16, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Zoom Registration
- Tuesday, August 17, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Zoom Registration
In this session, participants will learn how to use IC Canvas Course Blueprint, which is a course template that has been applied to all Fall 2021 Canvas Course shells. Participants leaving this session will have their Home Page started and at least one Module set up in their course. Even if you choose not to use the Blueprint you will come away with a good understanding of designing the presentation of your Canvas site using Pages and Modules. Various tips and tricks will be shared and there will be ample time to make progress on your Fall courses.
Intended audience: Faculty who want to learn about using the blueprint to design their Canvas courses.
Prerequisites: Some experience with Canvas or having gone through the first 3 modules of the “Growing with Canvas Course.”
Building a Canvas Course for the Minimalist (1 +1/2 hour Q&A)
- Tuesday, August 17, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Zoom Registration
- Thursday, August 19, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Zoom registration
In this session, participants will learn the basics of getting a simple no-frills Canvas site up and running. We’ll work through a Plan, Build, Publish process so that you can be confident that you will be ready by semester startup. This is a working session so you will work along some guided prompts to make progress to your published Canvas course site that helps your students.
Intended Audience: Faculty who want to use Canvas to share course material and use a few of the tools such as Assignments and Announcements.
Prerequisite: You should have logged into Canvas and authenticated with Duo. A draft syllabus.