Faculty Workshops

This short workshop is intended for teachers of classes that claim Gen Ed outcomes. More info here.

If you teach a class more than once, you may wish to copy the old course into your new one. This is a common task between quarters when you are teaching a class that you have taught before and want to just duplicate an older class to a new one.

Facilitator: Keith Rowley   |  Watch the captioned video of the workshop.

The college really wants instructors to at least post their syllabus on Canvas, even if they do nothing else in Canvas. With the Canvas Syllabus tool, you can make your course syllabus available to both your students and the public, and dated items in your class are updated in real-time on the Syllabus page. In this presentation, we will show instructors how to make their syllabus more effective using Canvas.

Facilitator: Keith Rowley  | Duration: 30 minutes

Click here for the workshop’s agenda, which includes the basic instructions. 

Click here to watch a previous, (not-yet-captioned,) recording of this workshop.

Does your Canvas Gradebook match your syllabus? Are you sure? Don’t confuse yourself and your students by having the Canvas Gradebook set up incorrectly. This workshop discusses alignment between Canvas and your syllabus, and two different ways to set up the Gradebook. Also, we’ll discuss the “new” Canvas Gradebook’s ability to automatically calculate late work.

Facilitator: Keith Rowley  |  Watch a previous, captioned, recording of this workshop.

LockDown Browser is a locked browser for taking exams and quizzes in Canvas. It prevents students from printing, copying, going to an unauthorized URL, or accessing other applications during a quiz. If a Canvas quiz requires the LockDown Browser, students will not be able to take the quiz with any other browser. LockDown Browser should only be used for taking Canvas quizzes.

Workshop is available by request. We will offer individual and group trainings.

Panopto is a cloud-based video lecture capture tool for training, teaching, presenting, easily used with PowerPoint and integrated into Canvas. This live workshop walks you through the whole process of recording, management, editing, sharing, and searching for all of your video content. Captioned videos made simple.

Workshop is available by request. We will offer individual and group trainings.

Notes & Resources: Interactive eLearning also has a nice page of Panopto resources that you can check out here.

Video Tutorial: Watch a recording of one of our live Panopto webinars here! (47 minutes)

Multimedia Services team will offer 45-minute hands-on Zoom sessions. Learn how to login to Zoom, create an online meeting, invite participants, start the online webinar, share the moderator desktop, record a session, and more.

Workshop is available by request. We will offer individual and group trainings.

Registration: Walk-In, limited to 10 participants

Duration: 30 minutes

Facilitator: Larry Boykin

Location: Interactive eLearning D140

Required: One week before the workshop, send a request to ITS and ask for your Zoom account and password. Without a Zoom account, you will not be able to participate.

Workshop is available by request. We will offer individual and group trainings.

Description:  Cranium Cafe is an intuitive, easy-to-use video conferencing tool available to instructors through their Canvas courses. In this workshop, instructors will learn how to schedule Cranium Cafe meetings and participate in an online meeting simulation as a student and as an instructor.

Facilitator: Betsy Zahrt Geib

Workshop is available by request. We will offer individual and group trainings.

Do you wish you could make your Canvas pages and assignments more appealing and engaging? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll work with HTML codes to add lines, headers, columns, divisions, pop-ups and more to pages, assignments, and announcements. No coding experience required.

Facilitator: Betsy Zahrt Geib

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Workshop is available by request. We will offer individual and group trainings.

Whether you teach grounded, online, or hybrid courses, well structured Canvas modules can help students navigate content, organize their time, and see course themes. Attendees will reflect on how they have structured their course modules as they explore design tips and best practices to promote multiple means of representation, engagement, and action and expression.

Facilitator: Betsy Zahrt Geib

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This workshop will introduce you to Canvas Discussion design. Discussions that encourage student engagement with course content that increases student interest in and understanding of course material. You will also see how you can use Canvas discussions to develop community in your courses. This workshop applies to face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses.

Notes: Workshop Handout in PDF format

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Workshop is available by request. We will offer individual and group trainings.
Engaging students in an online classroom can be enhanced by using various multi-media modalities like videos, screen captures, podcasts, and animations. Their effectiveness as a learning tool is limited if captions or transcripts are not provided by the author.

All students along with students of some types of disabilities appreciate captions, rely on transcripts to listen to a pre-recorded lecture and can enjoy the ability to view text to follow the contents of a video.

Join us for a 30-minute session that will introduce you to the legislation that requires us to caption audio and video instructional materials and understand Universal Design Principles.

Facilitator: Betsy Zahrt Geib

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Workshop is available by request. We will offer individual and group trainings.

Compliance with Section 508 is necessary for public educational institutions. Participants will learn essentials related to closed-captioning self-produced videos. Participants will create a YouTube channel on which to store their video, create a video with audio using a free recording resource, upload the video to YouTube, and use at least two methods of creating/editing closed captions for their video. The completed video will be posted to the participant’s Canvas sandbox or other sites. Create a YouTube Channel (can be done in advance or during the class), Download and execute the launcher for Screencast-o-Matic (will be done in class), Have access to a Canvas site to which to post a video (access to a Canvas site must to completed in advance of the class)
Facilitator: Betsy Zahrt Geib
Notes: Creating a YouTube Channel, Downloading and Installing the Screencast-O-Matic App, Transferring a Screencast-O-Matic Directly to YouTube

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Workshop is available by request. We will offer individual and group trainings.
Accessibility is a hot topic in education lately. Do you know how to create accessible content?
Join us for a short workshop demonstrating easy-to-implement practices. Microsoft Word will be highlighted in the practical application side while the benefits of accessibility in the curriculum as a pedagogical tool under the principles of UDL will also be discussed.

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Workshop is available by request. We will offer individual and group trainings.
Ally helps instructors create a more inclusive and accessible Canvas learning environment. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to utilize the Ally tool in conjunction with the native accessibility tool to check your content for accessibility.
Facilitator: Betsy Zahrt Geib

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