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!

Every Friday

11am - 1pm

SZB 450AF

Upcoming Workshops

To RSVP, please click the Register button* Workshop descriptions are listed below and you can reference the whole catalog of Canvas workshops in UTLearn here, https://utexas.csod.com/ui/lms-learner-search/search?pageNumber=1&query=Canvas (you will need to log in to UTLearn first).

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 iClicker in Canvas	M 8/19	10a - 11a	SZB 450
Canvas Crash Course	M 8/19	1p - 2p	SZB 450
Getting Started with UT Instapoll in Canvas	M 8/19	2:30p - 3:30p	SZB 450
Canvas Crash Course	Tu 8/20	10a - 11a	SZB 450
Deeper Dive into Assignments with the New Gradebook	Tu 8/20	1p - 2:30p	SZB 450
Managing Large Multi-section Courses	W 8/21	10a - 11:30a	SZB 450
New Faculty: Getting Started with Canvas Part of the New Faculty Symposium, in partnership with the Faculty Innovation Center	W 8/21	2:15p - 3p	BEL 710B
New Faculty: Getting Started with Canvas Part of the New Faculty Symposium, in partnership with the Faculty Innovation Center	W 8/21	3p - 3:45p	BEL 710B
Deeper Dive into Course Design and the New Analytics 2.0	Th 8/22	10 - 11:30a	SZB 450
Simplify Grading with Rubrics and SpeedGrader	Th 8/22	1p - 2:30p	SZB 450
Walk-in Office Hours (every Friday)	F 8/23	11a - 1p	SZB 450	No RSVP needed
Canvas Crash Course	M 8/26	10a - 11a	SZB 450
Explore the New Gradebook	M 8/26	11a - 12p	SZB 450
Getting Started with UT Instapoll in Canvas	Tu 8/27	10a - 11a	SZB 450
Canvas Crash Course	Tu 8/27	1p - 2p	SZB 450
Assignments with the New Gradebook	Tu 8/27	2p - 3:30p	SZB 450
Canvas Crash Course	W 8/28	1p - 2p	SZB 450

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

Workshop Descriptions

Assignments & the New Gradebook in Canvas

Bring your laptop and learn the workflow of assignment creation, student submission, instructor grading and student’s view of feedback. We will present an overview of the gradebook and discuss the advantages of using grading tools such as Rubrics and SpeedGrader.

Canvas Crash Course

Bring your laptop and get an early start on creating your Canvas course(s). In less than an hour, learn some of the basics (upload/organize content and message students), plus some helpful tips to save you time throughout the semester.

Canvas for Staff

This workshop is geared towards helping staff use Canvas for non-course activities. Learn how to create a site that is easy to navigate and how to effectively communicate with users. We will discuss how to upload and organize content, email users and create web pages in Canvas. Learn how to use common course-related features in new non-course related ways.

Deeper Dive into Assignments in Canvas (with the New Gradebook)

Bring your laptop and learn how to use Modules and Assignments to create a pathway through course content. We will dig deeper into Differentiated Assignments, Peer Review and Group work, Turnitin (plagiarism detection tool), and the new gradebook.

Deeper Dive into Course Design in Canvas (with Analytics 2.0)

This course design workshop will cover best practices in Canvas for organizing and presenting content to your students. Specifically, the relationships between your course’s Home Page, Pages, and Modules will be examined in detail. The goal of this workshop is to provide you with an understanding for how Canvas can enhance the teaching and learning experiences of instructor and students alike.

Explore the New Canvas Gradebook

The New Gradebook is an optional feature that enables improved functionality for gradebook management. This workshop will provide an overview of some of the new features, such as new arrange and filter options, the ability to view Published and Unpublished Assignments, select how to enter grades (for grading convenience), and the ability to automatically set Late and Missing Submission Policies. New Gradebook User Guide

Getting Started with iClicker in Canvas

Come join us for bagels and coffee! The May session will cover best practices for configuring and conducting iClicker polling sessions, synchronizing the Canvas and iClicker gradebooks, and exporting scores from iClicker to Canvas. If time permits, we'll talk about pedagogically-innovative and interactive exercises to expand student participation and understanding of course concepts. Clicker Resource Center, https://utexas.instructure.com/courses/1125742

Getting Started with UT Instapoll in Canvas

Come learn more about UT Instapoll, a free and easy-to-use classroom-response system developed by the Liberal Arts Development Studio. UT Instapoll leverages a single Canvas assignment to launch polls to your students, tracking performance and/or participation grades.

Managing Large Multi-Section Courses in Canvas

Many large courses are comprised of multiple unique number sections and sometimes require coordination between multiple instructors and/or TAs. If this is you and you’re interested in simplifying this process, we encourage you to join us. The goal of this workshop is introduce multiple avenues for managing large courses, from merging the sections together as one to using the Blueprint feature to manage all of them as separate sections. We will highlight each option, discuss advantages and disadvantages, and when to choose one over the other. In addition, we will also discuss ways to communicate with students in both scenarios. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop or tablet to this session. This workshop assumes that participants have basic knowledge of Canvas.

Simplify Grading using Rubrics and SpeedGrader

Bring your laptop and explore how to use Rubrics and SpeedGrader to improve efficiency and consistency of assignment grading in Canvas. We will cover rubric creation, viewing different assignment types in DocViewer, annotating on student submissions and how to leave feedback on rubric criteria and/or SpeedGrader. This workshop assumes that participants have basic knowledge of the Canvas user interface.