Join Online and Strategic Learning as you prepare to work on your course or course material in real time! Our new studios are virtual spaces to watch quick demos, practice a tool, and ask questions of your peers and our team. Visit
bsu.edu/facultydevelopment to register and view our full list of offerings.
Canvas Course Accessibility Checklist Studio
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Thursday, February 25, 9-11 a.m.
Friday, February 26, 1-3 p.m.
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. Join Instructional Consultant Sue Husted in this studio event and discover techniques and tips to make your course more accessible.
In this two-hour studio, 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
Meaningful Feedback Studio: Three-Day Self-Paced Course & Live Zoom Webinars
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Self-paced course and Zoom webinars: March 1, 2, and 3 (Monday-Wednesday)
This three-day, self-paced studio will demonstrate different areas of teacher feedback in Canvas and how students can leverage the feedback. You will be enrolled as a student in a Canvas course for the studio and work through several steps, broken down below by day. We will also host optional live Zoom sessions at 10 a.m. to answer questions and provide demonstrations. The links to the Zoom sessions will be posted in the Canvas course. If you cannot attend the live sessions, they will be recorded and made available in the course.
Studio Objectives:
- Produce feedback in Canvas via text, an attached file, video, audio, annotations, and/or rubrics
- Design practice quizzes that provide feedback to students
- Design an assignment which incorporates Simcheck, a program that detects potential plagiarism
- Design resources that will help guide students in reviewing instructor feedback
Canvas Quiz & Respondus Monitor Virtual ‘Drop-In’ Open Studio
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Tuesday, March 2, 10-11 a.m.
Join Instructional Consultant, Kwesi Tandoh, during this one-hour, hands-on Canvas Quiz and Respondus Monitor Studio. Attendees can ask questions, receive support, and request a demo related to any of the following:
- Setting up a quiz using the Canvas Quiz Tool
- Setting up quiz with individual questions in Canvas
- Setting up a quiz with questions from a question bank
- Setting up a quiz with a question group linked to a question bank
- Setting up a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions
- Setting up a Quiz Bank in Canvas
- Setting up a quiz in Respondus Monitor and deploying in Canvas
Rubric Studio
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Tuesday, March 9, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
Friday, March 26, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
Tuesday, April 27, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
Join Instructional Consultant, Angelia Yount, in a hands-on Rubric Studio where we will dive deeply into the Canvas Rubric Tool. The Canvas Rubric Tool enables instructors to grade projects more effectively and efficiently, while also empowering learners.
In this one-hour studio, you will:
- Learn about and practice using the Canvas Rubric tool
- Learn how rubrics can expedite assessment of learner work
- Adopt clear communicate expectations with a rubric
- Learn how rubrics encourage self-assessment
Studio: Cultivate Community with Assigned Discussion Roles
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Friday, March 5, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Friday, April 2, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Join online and strategic learning and your peers as we practice assigned discussion roles for any modality. Engaging in discussions with assigned roles cultivates thoughtful dialogue and critical thinking; the structure of roles builds confidence in articulating points with clarify and assures that all voices contribute equally. Together we will actively explore an engaging discussion system for online, asynchronous classes in Canvas and in-person classes or synchronous lectures in Zoom.
In this two-hour hands-on Studio in Zoom and Canvas resource course, you will:
- Engage synchronously via Zoom in the main session and breakout rooms
- Engage in discussions online in a Canvas course using assigned discussion roles, including conversation ‘starters,’ ‘provocateurs,’ and landscapers. Provocateurs will ‘provoke’ thoughtful dialogue and critical thinking. ‘Landscapers’ will synthesize the key points of the conversation.
Canvas Course Template Studio
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Thursday, April 8, 9-11 a.m.
Friday, April 9, 1-3 p.m.
Thursday, April 15, 1-3 p.m.
Friday, April 16, 9-11 a.m.
What is the most efficient way to organize and structure your course in Canvas? How can you design or redesign a class site that looks professional and is easy to navigate, that also frees up your time to focus on creating innovative content? How can you engage students? How can you ensure quality?
Join Instructional Consultant, Sue Husted as she shares with you 5 and 10-week templates for courses in Canvas. Integrating these templates into your Canvas courses is a simple means to improve student engagement, motivation, and retention, and dramatically streamline the development process, allowing you the opportunity to focus on what matters: your content and cultivating community with your students.
In this two-hour studio you will:
- Locate and import the template from Canvas Commons
- Adapt the template for your courses
- Learn how the template can improve student engagement and retention
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.