Walk-in Office Hours

This is an opportunity for any UT instructor, from graduate teaching assistant to fully tenured professor, to ask any questions related to instruction. Whether a question about technology, ideas on how to enhance student engagement, refine your course's design, or you are curious about taking your use of Canvas to the next level, we are here to help you!

Fridays 11am - 1pm SZB 450AF

If you are unable to attend Office Hours, you can always schedule a one-on-one appointment with a Canvas Specialist.

Upcoming Workshops

To RSVP, please click the link to Register.* If you have additional questions, please stop by during walk-in office hours or schedule a one-on-one consultation. If you would like to schedule a targeted training session for your group, please contact canvasid@utlists.utexas.edu.

	Date	Time	Location**	RSVP
Getting Started with Online Course Design (in collaboration with FIC)	Tu 10/16	9:30 - 11 am	SZB 450H	Register
Brown Bag - New Turnitin Integration in Canvas	Tu 10/16	12 - 1 pm	SZB 450H	Register
What is Turnitin’s Similarity Index?	Tu 10/16	1:30 - 3 pm	SZB 450H	Register
Getting Started with Online Course Design (in collaboration with FIC)	F 10/26	9:30 - 11 am	SZB 450H	Register
Getting Started with Online Course Design (in collaboration with FIC)	F 11/16	9:30 - 11 am	SZB 450H	Register

*If you are unable to log in to UTLearn, please email kkondoff@austin.utexas.edu to register for a particular session.

**To meet the needs of a diverse campus, we offer workshops in a variety of locations:

Map for Perry-Castaneda Library (PCL)

Map for George I. Sanchez Building (SZB)

Map for Peter T. Flawn Academic Center (FAC)

Workshop Descriptions

Getting Started with Online Course Design (1.5hrs)

How should you approach the design or redesign of your courses for online delivery? Through an examination of the ten basic questions of online course redesign, we will begin the process of reconceiving face‐to‐face courses for online teaching and learning environments by addressing the following questions:

What is the ‘big picture’ of online course design and what logistical items must be considered?
Create or curate? What are appropriate types of content delivery for building learning communities with a focus on adopting effective practices of discussion and engagement online
How is student learning and assessment addressed within online course design?
How should online courses be evaluated for their effectiveness?
How should faculty and students stay organized and to manage new or redefined workloads for online course?

This workshop will also introduce participants to tools within Canvas, the course management system of UT-Austin, and tools that can be used within Canvas to help facilitate online course design and delivery.

Participants will also be introduced to a Deeper Dive Instructional Guide (DDIG) that will act as a guide through the course design process. The "Architecting Online Courses" DDIG was conceptualized and built with significant input from associate professor Matt Fajkus (School of Architecture), whose Tree House project inspired our approach to supporting online course design and delivery.

There are four offerings of this workshop. You do not need to attend all four sessions but are welcome to attend as many as you like.

Canvas + Turnitin: Your Course, Your Choice! The new Turnitin integration in Canvas (1hr)

Join representatives from Turnitin for lunch and a lively session about Turnitin’s new Canvas integration. Participants will first explore the new Plagiarism Framework integration and then review the existing Turnitin External Tool integration to determine which solution is best for their course/assignment. By the end of the session, participants should have a better understanding of Turnitin’s features and functionality, and determine which Turnitin option (Plagiarism Framework vs. External Tool) is ideal for them to use.

What is Turnitin's Similarity Index or What’s the Magic Number?

The most common question that instructors ask is “What is the Magic Number?” or “What Similarity Index should be the threshold index to tell me that a student’s paper is OK or not?” Join Turnitin for an in-depth discussion about identifying that “magic number”, applying Originality Report best practices, and analyzing student papers for instances of academic misconduct. We will take a deeper dive into reviewing and interpreting Turnitin results (Similarity/Originality Score); as well as, how to use Turnitin to identify acts of plagiarism, review Turnitin settings and reports, and utilize the Feedback Studio filtering tools. We will also outline the procedures used by Turnitin to match results and will cover common misconceptions surrounding Turnitin.