Join your teaching peers during these upcoming faculty development offerings from Online and Strategic Learning.
Webinar: Canvas Feedback Tools
10:00 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4th
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3:00 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5th
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Description:
Instructor to student feedback is one of the most powerful instructional strategies for promoting academic achievement, retention, and student success. In this workshop, you will learn how to use Canvas tools to promote timely, balanced, actionable, and consistent feedback.
Objectives:
In this one-hour webinar you will:
- Use the SpeedGrader to leave written and video feedback
- Implement annotations onto submitted assignments to help students see exactly where they are not meeting criteria
- Provide feedback on self-assessment quizzes
- Explain to students how to view the feedback you have provided
Webinar: Make Your Canvas Course Accessible
1:00 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12th
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Description:
The National
Federation of the Blind defines digital accessibility as “the practice of designing electronic material so that it is usable by all people, including people with disabilities. It allows for information to be available visually, aurally, and tactilely.”
Ball State University is committed to digital accessibility. Planning for accessibility in your Canvas course is not only the right thing to do; applying accessibility best practices also meet requirements laid out by federal and state laws. Knowing where to begin can be challenging. This one-hour Webinar and accompanying Canvas resource site will help you get started.
Objectives
In this one-hour webinar and corresponding Canvas resource course, you will:
- Recognize the Rich Content Editor features that improve readability
- Recall techniques to author accessible Canvas content, including text-alternatives, text, links, and other page elements
- Identify opportunities to improve usability and accessibility of links in Canvas pages and modules
- Locate the Accessibility Checker in the Canvas Rich Content Editor
- Curate resources to improve accessibility in documents not created in Canvas
Webinar: Cultivate Community with Assigned Discussion Roles (Starter, Provocateur, Landscaper)
11:00 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3rd
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Description:
Join lead instructional consultant, Cheri Madewell, and actively explore an engaging discussion system (for online, HyFlex, and in-person classes) or develop a system of your own based on this model.
Objectives:
In this 90-minute hands-on workshop in Zoom and Canvas resource course, you will:
- Engage Synchronously via Zoom in the main session and breakout rooms, and online in Canvas with your peers to practice assigned discussion roles in any modality
- Engage in discussions with and as conversation ‘starters,’ ‘provocateurs’ who ‘provoke’ thoughtful dialogue and critical thinking, and ‘landscapers’ who synthesize the key points
- Build and cultivate community by leading, demonstrating knowledge of content, and articulating arguments in a meaningful way
Webinar: Canvas Gradebook Check-up
10:00 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 10th
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Description:
Does your Canvas gradebook make the grade? Are you accurately communicating with your students their academic performance? Mid-terms are sneaking up fast (Oct 7-16), spend an hour with us and make sure your gradebook is painting the academic performance picture you intended.
Objectives
In this one-hour webinar and corresponding Canvas resource course, you will:
- Recall how to create additional columns in the Canvas gradebook
- Recognize how Assignment Groups can subtotal related columns, weight grades and allow you to drop (ignore) scores
- Confirm that your grading scheme detailed in your syllabus matches the scheme used in Canvas
- Recall how to view Gradebook history for recent changes in the course
- Discover the steps to publish mid-term grades to Banner from Canvas
- Locate grade information and Last Date of Activity for students who have withdrawn from a course
- Discover how to share gradebook information with individual students
- Recall how to export your grades from Canvas into an Excel spreadsheet
Questions about these or future faculty development offerings? Contact strategiclrn@bsu.edu.
For a full list of offerings this Fall,
visit the Faculty Development Offerings website.