Faculty Development has offered the QLT course as a fully online asynchronous format delivered in Canvas as of fall 2023 following a successful pilot in spring 2023. The course was designed in collaboration with the Academic Technology Officer, Information Technology Consultants, and two faculty members.  

In spring 2025, based on lower completion results from fall 2025, we added more synchronicity by scheduling one module per week with weekly reminders sent by Canvas Announcement in order to create opportunities for more robust and timely discussion among participants, increase support from peers and module facilitators, and create a productive sense of urgency. 

Each weekly announcement reminded faculty of the module and assignments due, the topics for that week, and the topics for the following week. Some announcements included strategic Canvas tips applicable to both the QLT participants and their students. For example, an early announcement included a Canvas tip describing how to sync the Canvas calendar to their Outlook or Google Calendar. 

QLT CANVAS TRAining - TIMELINE

Summer 2022: the QA lead started mapping an outline for the asynchronous QLT course, with the goal of implementing and expanding elements from the 5 synchronous workshops.

Fall 2022: The QA Lead collaborated with the Academic Technology Officer to finalize the outline for the asynchronous Canvas course. While the outline originally included 7 modules, the finalized courses ended up including 8 (shown below).

January 2023: The QA completed the design of the QLT Canvas course, with input from the Academic Technology Officer, TLP technology consultants, and two faculty facilitators. The course launched in late January 2023.

Fall 2023: All QLT participants now complete the online asynchronous course in Canvas with the support of module facilitators composed of the QA Lead, TLP technology consultants, and two faculty facilitators.

Spring 2024: The QLT Lead adds optional synchronous Zoom meetings to support participants in meeting benchmarks. The module facilitators also attend the meetings corresponding to their modules to contribute to the discussion and answer questions.

Spring 2025: The QLT Lead modifies modules and their corresponding assignments to add more synchronicity with weekly due dates for more consistency and to encourage higher completion rates. 

Canvas QLT Course Navigation Video

Module 1: Introduction to QLT (Video)

A final survey was administered December 2024 and May 2025 among the faculty who completed the QLT Canvas course in fall 2024 or spring 2025, respectively. Five of the ten faculty responded to the to the final survey.

The main takeaways from the survey are included below:

1. On average, faculty stated it took 3-4 hours to complete each module. 

2. Faculty appreciated the many resources provided in the QLT course and stated they found all topics relevant and useful. There was a variety of topics mentioned as particularly useful with each participant mentioning different ones: accessibility features in Canvas, Student Learning Objectives, meaningful assignments and evaluations, and course navigation. 

3. Three of the five faculty thought QLT took about the same amount of work as they expected while two thought it was a bit more.

4. Faculty commented that it was very clear which QLT standards were being met each week, the order was logical, and that it did not seem like there was any "clutter" in the course. One mentioned that they were successfully convinced through completing the course of the value and flexibility of using the QLT rubric for courses of any modality (whereas initially they thought the standards seemed more applicable to virtual learning).

Canvas QLT Course Survey