Learn the critical skills for designing and setting up your Canvas course site. These workshops introduce Canvas's menus, settings, and tools to help you quickly and effectively use your Canvas course site.
To register for workshops, visit CLT's Event System.
In this hands-on workshop, you will receive practical tips and suggestions, and you will troubleshoot problems and exchange ideas. Join this session to explore ideas on how to get started or how to organize and design your course in Canvas. Bring any other questions that you might have.
This workshop guides you through the steps of creating, editing, updating, and grading assignments and assessment in Canvas. You will also learn about the ODU plagiarism detection tool: Turnitin.
In this workshop, you will learn how to leverage various communication tools to communicate with and engage your students. From Announcements to emails, Canvas provides a number of ways to keep your students informed and engaged throughout the semester.
This session will show you how to use Gradebook and SpeedGrader in Canvas. In addition to learning about the default features of Gradebook, you will learn how to use SpeedGrader to view, annotate, comment, and grade assignments using rubrics.
This session will show you how to use the New Quizzes tool in Canvas. In addition to understanding the differences between the old and the new quizzing tool, you will also learn how to migrate your old quizzes and how to customize your New Quizzes.
In this workshop, you will learn how to set up online discussions to enrich and extend your interaction with your students. By using focused and threaded discussions, you will provide formal and informal opportunities for your students to interact and collaborate with each other.
This workshop shares some of the hidden gems of Canvas. From un-deleting files to using Gradebook shortcuts, you will learn time-saving strategies and practical tips to help you harness and manage the features of Canvas.
This workshop focuses on Canvas’s Course Copy process and how to reuse a course site. (You don’t have to start over in Canvas each semester!) Learn how to save time updating existing content and settings, and how to prepare the site for a new term. Effective course site design and strategies for easier course maintenance are discussed throughout.
This workshop guides you through the steps of creating your new course in Canvas. You will learn how to configure your course settings, add, edit, and upload content, and publish your course content.
VoiceThread is a collaboration tool available in Canvas that allows faculty and students to share and discuss content using text, images, audio, and video. VoiceThread combines a media player with interactive tools to facilitate online discussions and media-based feedback. This session will focus on using VoiceThread in Canvas.
This introductory workshop will show you how to navigate through Canvas, how to set up your course settings, how to organize your course files, and how to create, upload, and edit content and assignments using the Canvas Rich Content Editor.
This session will guide you through the steps of using and customizing ODU’s Canvas template components. You will learn how to organize your course content, resources, and activities into a consistent and easy-to-navigate format.
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to organize your course using Modules within Canvas.
Respondus is a powerful tool for preparing and managing exams that can be published directly to Canvas or printed to paper. As an ODU faculty or staff member, you already have access to the latest version of Respondus to create and edit tests and to upload them into Canvas.
In this workshop, you will apply a detailed post-migration checklist to ensure that your course is ready for your students.
Explore options for creating and embedding video using the Kaltura Media application in Canvas. Explore using Kaltura’s Media Upload, Webcam features within your Canvas course sites. Also, explore the use of Kaltura Screen Capture and Video Quiz features within your Canvas course sites.