Don't sweat  the heat... try one of these cool Canvas workshops next week!

The following message was emailed to instructors and staff on 07/28/2023

Some events hosted by the Center for Integrated Professional Development will be held face-to-face; others will be entirely online using Zoom.  Please note the location carefully when registering. For online events, participants will receive a meeting link via their campus email about one business day in advance.  

Select a date/time to register through the My.IllinoisState portal. If you have questions or need an accommodation to fully participate in an event, please email ProDev@ilstu.edu. 

Canvas Studio: Recording and Editing Video 

Tuesday, August 1 • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 
Online 

Canvas Studio allows you to record, edit, manage, and share videos—all from within Canvas. In this session, you will learn how to record your webcam, your computer (or both) for use in announcements, pages, discussions, and even quizzes and grading. You will learn how to edit videos using simple tools (cut, trim), how to add closed captions, annotations, and how to share your videos inside and outside of ISU. Registration is required. 

ReggieNet: Data Backup 

Tuesday, August 1 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. 
Online  

Instructors can ensure that parts of their ReggieNet courses sites are backed up before the system is retired at the end of 2023. This workshop will show you methods for saving documents and media files, exporting quizzes, including question pools, and saving gradebooks. It will also explore strategies for saving things which don’t have export capabilities, like students’ responses to discussion posts. Registration is required. 

Canvas: Getting Started 

Tuesday, August 1 • 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 
Online 

This workshop covers basic questions about where to find your classes, how to navigate the dashboard and your courses. You will learn how to move part or all of your course from one Canvas shell to another one, settings for the course, adding files and ways to manage how your students see the content. There will be time for hands-on practice and questions about your particular courses. Registration is required. 

Canvas: Discussions 

Wednesday, August 2 • 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. 
Online 

Canvas Discussions includes an array of features you can use to increase social presence, promote student interaction, and strengthen the learning community in your course. In addition to basic features and more traditional design options, this session will share tips and tricks of how to adjust settings, design forums, and manage access. Registration is required. 

Canvas: Content Creation 

Wednesday, August 2 • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 
Online 

Canvas offers powerful tools to organize the content of your course. In this session, you will explore how Canvas Pages can be designed to contain text, hyperlinks, images, multimedia, and other types of digital content. Using Pages to design your course can also make it more visually appealing, helping increase student engagement and allowing more intuitive navigation. Participants will explore Pages, the Rich Content Editor, Announcements, and modifying their Course Home Page. Registration is required. 

Canvas: Communication Tools 

Wednesday, August 2 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. 
Online 

Canvas has many options available to communicate using text, audio, and video. During this session, you’ll learn about the features, options, and notifications of the primary tools you can use to post information, set up appointments, provide support, and facilitate interaction. Participants will explore Announcements, Appointment Group, Inbox, Analytics, Discussions, and Grades. Registration is required. 

Canvas: Modules 

Friday, August 4 • 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. 
Online 

Unique to Canvas and highly customizable, Modules is a helpful tool for organizing content to help set the flow of your course. During this workshop, you will get an overview of Modules, including the ways it can benefit your courses. You’ll also learn about creating Modules and see the different strategies for managing the Modules you create. Registration is required. 

Canvas: Assignments 

Friday, August 4 • 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 
Online 

This workshop provides a tour of the Canvas Assignments tool. Unlike ReggieNet’s Assignments tool, Canvas’s Assignments tool houses all course assignments—including discussions, assignments, quizzes, attendance, and more. During this workshop, you will learn how to create, organize, and weight assignment groups and how this affects other tools in your course like Syllabus, Modules, and Grades. You will also be introduced to assignment settings and rules, bulk editing assignments, and how the Attendance (Roll Call) tool impacts assignments and grading. Registration is required. 

Canvas: Getting Started 

Friday, August 4 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. 
Old Union 213D 

This workshop covers basic questions about where to find your classes, how to navigate the dashboard and your courses. You will learn how to move part or all of your course from one Canvas shell to another one, settings for the course, adding files and ways to manage how your students see the content. There will be time for hands-on practice and questions about your particular courses. Registration is required. 

Canvas: Groups and Collaboration 

Friday, August 4 • 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. 
Online 

Groups (a tool under People) is a complex feature in Canvas that allows you to integrate collaboration in your course. During this advanced workshop, you will receive an overview of how to set up Groups and how to use Groups in a variety of other tools in Canvas—including Inbox, Discussions, Announcements, Files, Assignments, and SpeedGrader. Because the Groups tool is an advanced feature, we recommend that you first attend the Assignments workshop and the Communication Tools workshop, so that you are familiar with those tools before adding Groups to the mix. Registration is required.