The LTC will be offering a full day of rotating workshops on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018. We also have a series of Hands-On Introduction and Canvas Construction Zone sessions scheduled for June. We will continue to offer workshops throughout the summer.

Canvas Hands-On Introduction (2 Hours) – Wednesday, May 23rd
We will cover the basic function of the core tools in the Canvas platform. There will be time to ask questions throughout the session. We will offer repeats of this workshop all day – so feel free to attend multiple sessions – or drop in at any time. Please register for any sessions that you may attend to help give us an idea for planning. Registration is not required and you are welcome to drop in the day of the event. Remote viewing options will also be available. Light refreshments will be available.

Date/Time	Location	Register
Wednesday, May 23rd – 9:00am	Hyer 210	In-Person Registration Webinar Registration
Wednesday, May 23rd – 11:30am	Hyer 210	In-Person Registration Webinar Registration
Wednesday, May 23rd – 2:00pm	Hyer 210	In-Person Registration Webinar Registration

Canvas Hands-On Introduction (2 Hours) – June 2018
We will cover the basic function of the core tools in the Canvas platform. There will be time to ask questions along the way. If this is your first time touching Canvas, this workshop is the one for you!

Date/Time	Location	Register
Thursday, May 31st – 1:00pm	Hyer 210	In-Person Registration
Tuesday, June 5th – 9:00am	Hyer 210	In-Person Registration Webinar Registration
Wednesday, June 13th – 9:00am	Heide 302	In-Person Registration
Monday, June 18th – 9:00am	Hyer 210	In-Person Registration Webinar Registration
Tuesday, June 26th – 1:00pm	Heide 302	In-Person Registration

Canvas Construction Zone (2 Hours) – June 2018
Are you ready to start digging into your course setup?  Do you need help straightening up after moving a course from D2L into Canvas?  Do you have questions on how to set things up? This is the session for you! This session will be 2 hours of lab time with support staff on hand to help you construct your course in Canvas. Don’t forget your hard hat!

Date/Time	Location	Register
Thursday, June 7th – 9:00am	Hyer 210	In-Person Registration
Friday, June 15th – 9:00am	Heide 302	In-Person Registration
Wednesday, June 20th – 9:00am	Hyer 210	In-Person Registration
Thursday, June 28th – 1:00pm	Heide 302	In-Person Registration

If you have any questions about these sessions, please reach out to the UW-W Learning Technology Center.

During the month of April, the Learning Technology Center (LTC) will be offering a series of workshops to help instructors start diving into Canvas and preparing their courses.  We will continue to offer workshops throughout the summer.

Canvas Hands-On Introduction (2 Hours)

We will cover the basic function of the core tools in the Canvas platform.  There will be time to ask questions along the way.  If this is your first time touching Canvas, this workshop is the one for you!

Canvas Hands-On Introduction – Beyond the Basics (2 Hours)

This Hands-On Introduction workshop is designed for the power user. We will move at a faster pace, and dive a little deeper into the advanced functions of the core tools in the Canvas Platform.  Have you used Canvas before?  Are you eager to talk about some advanced topics in each of the core tools?  If so, then this workshop is the one for you!

Canvas Deep Dives – Tool Specific (1 Hour)

We will focus on a single tool, and dive deep into various options and use cases for how that tool works.

If you have any questions about these sessions, please reach out to the UW-W Learning Technology Center.

Over the last few months, teams across the UW-System have been working on getting the new Learning Management System ready for access.  We are happy to announce that all instructors now have access to the Canvas platform!  Instructors have access to start trying things out, migrating their course materials and mocking up content.  Here are a few important things to keep in mind:

• Setup and Configuration Ongoing.  We are still working on configuring and testing integrations such as TurnItIn, Respondus Lockdown Browser, Redshelf, textbook publisher integrations, and more. These will be made available as they are tested and implemented by UW-System.
• User roles are not yet determined.  There is a team at UW-System that is working on finalizing the roles (Student, Graduate Assistant, Grader, Reviewers, Guest Lecturers, etc) that will be available to our campus.  As soon as we receive that information, we will pass it along.
• Course Complexity Analysis.  UW-Whitewater and UW-Superior were part of a team to develop a tool to help you analyze your existing Desire2Learn course. The goal of the tool is to provide some estimates on what areas of your existing course will require the most focus and time for migration.  This tool is available at http://dl.uwsa.edu
• We have 24/7/365 Email, Phone and Chat support included with the new Canvas platform.  This is available today!  As you are testing things out, please reach out via those channels as a first line of defense. Questions that they cannot answer will be escalated to the Canvas Support Team here at UW-Whitewater.
• Blank Courses for Migration.  All users who have taught in the last year have been setup with 3 blank courses in Canvas. These courses are there for testing, or starting to migrate and setup your actual courses. Just like in Desire2Learn, these courses would be copied into the actual timetable course once those are available. If you need more test courses, please reach out to Canvas Support.

The official login page and support channels for Canvas are located at http://uww.edu/canvas.

What’s next?
We are currently in the process of meeting with each college to discuss the overall migration and training plans.  Once those plans are set, they will be published on the Canvas Transition Website. In the meantime, you can start reviewing the FAQs and training resources on the website.   Access the Canvas Transition Website here: http://go.uww.edu/canvas-transition

When can I start using Canvas for my courses?
The first opportunity for courses in the Canvas platform will be the Fall 2018 semester.  We are targeting to have all course migrations completed before Summer 2019.

If you have any questions or concerns about the transition, please reach out to the UW-W Learning Technology Center.

In preparation for the upcoming Canvas transition, we will be holding a two part hands-on workshop series to help clean up some of the old content in your D2L courses.  This will be a repeat of the same series we offered in January.  We will provide a brief overview of common areas that can be cleaned up, and then we’ll dive in and help you clean out the closet!  The majority of the time will be work time for you to ask questions and cleanup your course(s).

Registration is required; click on dates below to register.

Friday, February 16th (Hyland 3101):

• Register for Part 1: News, Content, Discussions – 10:00am to Noon
• Lunch Provided – Noon to 12:30pm
• Register for Part 2: Quizzes, Dropbox, Grades – 12:30pm to 3:00pm

Tuesday, March 27th (Hyer 210):

• Register for Part 1: News, Content, Discussions – 10:00am to Noon
• Lunch Provided – Noon to 12:30pm
• Register for Part 2: Quizzes, Dropbox, Grades – 12:30pm to 3:00pm

What this workshop isn’t: We will not be talking about Canvas, or showing any of the Canvas platform during this session.  The purpose of this session is to focus on and prepare your D2L courses for the upcoming transition.

If you have any questions about this workshop, contact the UW-W Learning Technology Center.

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

In preparation for the upcoming Canvas transition, we will be holding a two part hands on workshop in January 2018 to help clean up some of the old content in your D2L courses.  We will provide a brief overview of common areas that can be cleaned up, and then we’ll dive in and help you clean out the closet!

Registration is required.

Thursday, January 4th (Hyer 210):

• Register for Part 1: News, Content, Discussions – 10:00am to Noon
• Buffet Lunch Provided – Noon to 12:30pm
• Register for Part 2: Quizzes, Dropbox, Grades – 12:30pm to 3:00pm

Tuesday, January 16th (Hyer 210):

• Register for Part 1: News, Content, Discussions – 10:00am to Noon
• Buffet Lunch Provided – Noon to 12:30pm
• Register for Part 2: Quizzes, Dropbox, Grades – 12:30pm to 3:00pm

Can’t make these?  We are planning to offer additional sessions during the Spring semester.

What this workshop isn’t: We will not be talking about Canvas, or showing any of the Canvas platform during this session.  The purpose of this session is to focus on and prepare your D2L courses for the upcoming transition.  We will be releasing a Canvas training schedule in January 2018.  Stay tuned!

If you have any questions about this workshop, contact the UW-W Learning Technology Center.

UW-Whitewater has received word that the UW System Board of Regents has signed the contract with Instructure for their Canvas product.

Now that the contract is signed, here is what you need to know:

• The Director of Learning Technology is serving as the UW-Whitewater Institution Project Manager.  Please continue to use the Learning Technology Center (ltc@uww.edu) as your primary contact for questions and concerns.  Each UW-System Institution has a dedicated project team and will be working together on migration efforts.  Provost Elrod and Assistant Vice Chancellor Pokot (ICIT) are the UW-Whitewater project sponsors.
• The earliest opportunity to migrate courses to Canvas is expected to be Fall 2018 with all courses migrated before December 2019.  The move from D2L to Canvas is an exciting change, but will not happen overnight.  These estimates are not set in stone, and they may change as things progress.
• Please do not contact UW-Madison colleagues or Canvas to gain access to a test course. Though we can understand that you might be excited to get started working in Canvas right away, please do not contact our colleagues at UW-Madison in an effort to gain access to their Canvas environment or use the free public version of Canvas to get started. Both of these environments may be quite different than the environment the UW System will be creating with Canvas and will not be included in migration planning.
• Any inquiries from the media regarding the Instructure Canvas contract should be directed to: https://www.wisconsin.edu/dle/

We will continue to receive more information in the weeks and months ahead, and will do our best to communicate this information with the UW-Whitewater campus community as transparently as possible throughout this transition process. As we understand that there will be a lot of questions during this transition period, the Learning Technology Center has created a website to help keep the UW-Whitewater campus community informed, which can be accessed at this link: http://go.uww.edu/canvas-migration

We understand that whenever a large-scale change like this occurs, there will be a number of questions and concerns that arise. The Learning Technology Center aims to be as transparent as possible during this transition period, and will undertake concerted efforts to keep the UW-Whitewater campus community as informed as possible throughout the change. Please continue to contact the Learning Technology Center (ltc@uww.edu) for questions and concerns related to this transition.