Canvas Show and Tell

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During the course of the Spring 2018 semester, we will offer a 3 part workshop series to help you get up to speed with Canvas.  These workshops will be 1 hour long and are designed to show you a comparison of Canvas functions to Desire2Learn.  Feel free to pick and choose which sessions you would like to attend. These workshops will NOT be hands-on.   We will offer hands-on workshops once users have the ability to start transitioning their course material.

Registration is required.  All workshops will be held in McGraw 19a.

Canvas Show and Tell – Part 1

Part 1 will provide a brief overview of the vision for the DLE (Digital Learning Environment).  Afterwards, we will show you how the following items work in D2L and in Canvas.

  • Digital Learning Environment
  • Course Home and Navigation
  • D2L News -> Canvas Announcements
  • D2L Content -> Canvas Modules
  • D2L Manage Files -> Canvas Files / Pages
  • D2L Discussions -> Canvas Discussions

Tuesday, February 13th – 2pm to 3pm
Wednesday, February 14th – 2pm to 3pm
Tuesday, February 20th – 5pm to 6pm

Canvas Show and Tell – Part 2

Part 2 will focus on more of the assignment tools and grading.

  • Digital Learning Environment
  • D2L Dropbox -> Canvas Assignments
  • D2L Quizzes -> Canvas Quizzes
  • D2L Grades -> Canvas Grades
  • D2L Attendance -> Canvas Attendance
  • D2L Calendar -> Canvas Calendar

Tuesday, February 27th – 2pm to 3pm
Wednesday, February 28th – 2pm to 3pm
Tuesday, March 6th – 5pm to 6pm

Canvas Show and Tell – Part 3

Part 3 we will talk about overall course administration, the class list tool, and also some of the “New” features that are available in Canvas.

  • Digital Learning Environment
  • D2L Course Administration -> Canvas Course Administration
  • D2L Classlist -> Canvas People
  • D2L Rubrics -> Canvas Rubrics
  • D2L HTML Editor -> Canvas Rich Content Editor
  • New Features in Canvas
    • Canvas Syllabus
    • Canvas Collaborations
    • Canvas Speedgrader
    • Canvas Course Link Validator

Wednesday, March 14th – 2pm to 3pm
Tuesday, March 13th Thursday, March 15th – 2pm to 3pm
Tuesday, March 20th – 5pm to 6pm

Canvas Show and Tell – Part 1, 2 & 3

During spring break, we will be offering a condensed version that goes through all 3 parts of the series in a 2 hours session.

Wednesday, March 28th – 10am to noon

If you have any questions please contact the UW-W Learning Technology Center.

What is Canvas?

The UW-System Board of Regents has signed a contract with Instructure for their Canvas product.  Canvas will be replacing Desire2Learn as our next Learning Management System.  The earliest opportunity to migrate courses to Canvas is expected to be Fall 2018.  For more information about the overall project, go to http://go.uww.edu/canvas-transition