Join your teaching peers during these upcoming faculty development offerings from the Division of Online and Strategic Learning.
Description: Canvas has a few surprises up its sleeve! Save time and effort, and 'glow-up' the overall look of your course(s). Join us in this 30-minute session with some Q&A time, as we go over undeleting files, what-if grades, restoring page versions, sharing assessments with other faculty, and using embed code for videos.
Objectives: - In this 50-minute Quick Clinic + Q&A, you will:
- Demonstrate to students how to use the What-If Grades tool
- Use embed code from Kanopy, YouTube, and other video services to place videos into your course
- Execute the undelete and previous page versions
Webinar: Canvas Feedback Tools
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.
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In this one-hour webinar you will:
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Use the SpeedGrader to leave written and video feedback
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Implement annotations onto submitted assignments to help students see exactly where they are not meeting criteria
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Provide feedback on self-assessment quizzes
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Explain to students how to view the feedback you have provided
Webinar: Make Your Canvas Course Accessible
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:
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Recognize the Rich Content Editor features that improve readability
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Recall techniques to author accessible Canvas content, including text-alternatives, text, links, and other page elements
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Identify opportunities to improve usability and accessibility of links in Canvas pages and modules
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Locate the Accessibility Checker in the Canvas Rich Content Editor
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Curate resources to improve accessibility in documents not created in Canvas
Webinar: Creating and Implementing Dynamic Rubrics to Enhance Student Learning
Two-day Workshop
Thursday, Oct. 22 and Friday, Oct. 23
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Description: Join us for a 2-day, asynchronous online Rubric Workshop in Canvas. Participants will explore rubric examples, relevant research, develop a rubric, receive feedback from the facilitator, and share their finished rubric with colleagues.
This workshop includes a Zoom 'Live Hour’ with a helpful rubric demonstration. During this session, participants will learn about the mechanics of setting up a rubric and using it to grade an assignment.
Time expected to complete the workshop: 4-6 hours total
Objectives: In this 2-day asynchronous workshop you will:
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Recognize how a rubric can be a powerful tool for both teaching and assessment
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Identify the appropriate rubric to help assess student performance
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Develop clear expectations in showing students how to meet expectations
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Develop a rubric to set meaningful goals and expectations
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Evaluate the extent to which goals are achieved in rubric development
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Share with other educators your developed rubric at the end of the workshop
Webinar: Quizzes in Canvas: Workshop & Live 90-minute Demo
10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14
Description: Effective assessments allow instructors to know if instructional objectives in Cognitive (Knowledge), Skills (Psychomotor), and Affective (Attitude) domains have been achieved. When designed and used effectively assessments help instructors make cognitive (knowledge), skills, and affective connections to concepts taught in a traditional face-to-face classroom or online.
During this 90-minute session learn how to create quizzes in Canvas and Respondus Monitor. Respondus Monitor is integrated into Canvas and makes for seamless quiz integration.
Objectives: Following this 90-minute webinar you will be able to:
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Identify options for setting up a quiz using the Canvas Quiz Tool
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Create a quiz with individual questions in Canvas
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Create a quiz by finding questions in a question bank
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Create a quiz with a question group linked to a question bank
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Create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions
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Import quizzes from QTI package. (QTI stands for Question and Test Interoperability. It's the standard format that assessments/quizzes are saved in when exported from a learning management system such as Canvas. It's typically a zip file that contains details of the quiz settings, the questions, any images embedded in a question etc.)
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Create a Quiz Bank in Canvas
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Create a quiz in Respondus Monitor and deploy in Canvas
Webinar: Cultivate Community with Assigned Discussion Roles (Starter, Provocateur, Landscaper)
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:
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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
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Engage in discussions with and as conversation ‘starters,’ ‘provocateurs’ who ‘provoke’ thoughtful dialogue and critical thinking, and ‘landscapers’ who synthesize the key points
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Build and cultivate community by leading, demonstrating knowledge of content, and articulating arguments in a meaningful way
Webinar: Canvas Gradebook Check-up
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.
Objective:
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