QuickStart to Canvas and Best Practices: Online & Shortened Format
The Digital Learning & Emerging Technology Initiatives Office, Learning Platforms Team, Office for Faculty Excellence, and faculty leaders across campus have partnered together for professional development (PD) to help you get your Canvas course ready for the Fall. We’ll be there for you as you “pivot” to short format courses and online teaching!
We are very excited to offer a two-day QuickStart Session to get you started in Canvas and share best practices for teaching online, high enrollment courses, and teaching in a shortened format.
There’s no registration required to attend; click on the “Join the ZOOM Webinar” button below to go directly into the Zoom session.
Thursday July 30th, 2020 Friday July 31st, 2020
Getting Started with Canvas
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Student Groups and Collaboration
9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Building and Teaching in Canvas
10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.Canvas Studio
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Building and Managing Course Content
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 pmQuizzes and New Quizzes
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Grading and Assessment.
2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.mCourse Design Consideration
2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Day 1 Outline – July 30
Getting Started with Canvas
Building and Teaching in Canvas
- Canvas Courses
- Course Walkthrough
- Student View
- Course Navigation Bar
- Announcements
- New Rich Content Editor
Building and Managing Course Content
Grading and Assessment
Day 2 Outline – July 31
Student Groups and Collaboration
- Creating Groups
- Group Work
- Collaborations
Canvas Studio
- Adding Media
- Managing
- Adding Videos to Canvas
Quizzes and New Quizzes
Course Design Considerations
Canvas Resources
- Canvas Network. Free professional development courses for educators. Excellent way to see how others design courses. Great way to experience Canvas as a student
- Canvas Community. View the Canvas Guides, learn how others are creating in Canvas.
- Downloading Canvas Commons ECU Templates:
- Click “Commons” in the Global Nav menu in Canvas.
- Filter: by Modules; Click “Share with ECU” at bottom of screen.
- Click the link in the “Start Here Template” tile.
- Click the blue Import/Download button.
- Select the course you’re importing into.
- Choose Import Course.
- Downloads:
- Course Mapping Worksheet. Plan your course before building in Canvas.
- Course Evaluation Checklist. Use the checklist to ensure you’ve included all recommended elements.
- Mobile App Design Course Evaluation Checklist. Use this checklist to ensure your course is mobile app friendly.
- Course Facilitation Checklist. This checklist will help you manage your course once it starts.
- Quality Matters Checklist
- Best Practices:
- Sample Courses (see how others are building their courses):
- Discussions:
- Courses: