Improved Pages in Canvas: Monday, September 19, 3:00 pm.
Lost where to go to improve your Canvas page design? Don’t be! This workshop explores Whitewater examples, includes step-by-step instructions on how to adapt those innovations to your own courses, and tips and tricks to take your Canvas courses from “good to great.” Sign Up Here
Saving Time with Outlook: Tips and Tricks: Friday, September 23, 9:00 am
Learn time saving and organizational strategies for your email and calendar in Microsoft Outlook. We’ll cover advanced email searching functions, email organization strategies. Sign Up Here
Getting Started with Visuals to Enhance your Pages: Monday, September 26, 3:00 pm
Ibsen said “A picture is worth one thousand words” … but we tend to build our Canvas pages with no pictures and thousands of words! This workshop explores resources to enhance the look, feel, and effectiveness of your Canvas courses. Sign Up Here
Higher Integrity Quizzes in Canvas Wednesday, September 28, 2:00 PM
This session will focus on the things other than monitoring software to improve the integrity of your quizzes. We will use the description area of the assessment to remind students what they can and can’t do during your quizzes, set up timing and randomized questions, use different question types to make looking up answers more difficult, and try to change the focus of questions to application of skills. Sign Up Here
Increasing Participation with Interactive Polling: Friday, September 30, 1:00 pm
Classroom Polling allows instructors to ask questions, track progress and receive instant feedback from students. Learn about the differences and similarities of the three campus-supported options for polling Poll Everywhere, TurningPoint, and Slido. We’ll also discuss use cases and best practices for interactive polling. Sign Up Here
The LTC provides both one-on-one and departmental consultation to implore evidence-based best practices in online and blended course design and facilitation. If the times of these workshops do not meet your needs, you can request an individual or department in-person or virtual consultation.