Canvas 102
An Equity Teaching Tool

Prerequisites: You should complete the self-paced Canvas Orientation workshop before beginning this one, where you will learn the very basics of Canvas use as an instructor.

The learning outcome of this workshop is active use of Canvas as an equity and retention tool. You will achieve that by participating in a discussion at the end of each module, where you share your course changes and thoughts on Canvas as an equity tool based on the material.

• Module One: Course Design

• Module Two: Your Syllabus

• Module Three: Assessment as a Learning Tool

• Resources Module: Cool Tools for Retention

• Resource Module: Course Accessibility

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Curriculum (re)Design
Tools and Resources

• Part I: Getting Started

• Part II: Start With your Outcomes

• Part III: Increase Engagement with Universal Design for Learning

• Part IV: Increase Engagement with Open Educational Resources

• Part V: Pathway to Success: Assessing Student Learning

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TILT Your Course Using Transparent Assignment Templates

The purpose of this workshop is to allow you to become familiar with the concept of TILT (Transparency in Teaching and Learning) and actually create some TILT-ed material for your courses.

Defining an obvious purpose for each module and assignments makes our teaching and learning more intentional.

This helps me consider how I can use this same idea in face-to-face teaching. The templates can be useful in helping transform a face-to-face class to online, and vice-versa, by serving as a way to structure and organize important information to best present to students. - Kyra Stenslie, Adjunct Faculty

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

1. Articulate why TITL-ing makes a difference for many students.

2. Demonstrate the use of TILT-ed material.

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Alignment, Outcomes, & Rubrics
Direct Measures of Student Success

How do we know our students are learning? This workshop is short on reading and long on doing. You will be given information and samples to work with, to create rubrics that have program outcomes embedded in them. You will also find out how to grade with those rubrics. And finally, you will be utilizing TILT templates for your assessments, to help students succeed.

This course was really helpful for helping to understand the "why" of various assessments in a given course, but more than that, to help understand the "why" of a course itself...assessment rubrics aligned with outcomes help make the assessments meaningful to the course and the overall program of study. - Eunice Graham, Adjunct Faculty

By the end of this workshop you will be able to:

• Create at least seven assessments tied to program and/or college outcomes.

• Explore low-stakes and high-stakes assessments in your courses.

• Utilize TILT templates with rubrics.

• Grade with a rubric.

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HYBRID 101

Required for all HYBRID Faculty

What you will take away:

1. Articulate the difference between ground, hybrid and online courses.

2. Demonstrate familiarity with C.L.A.S.S., understanding the considerations important to teaching in a hybrid format.

3. Clarify the role of the hybrid teacher in the digital era.

4. Connect your hybrid course to appropriate online tools/sites that will enhance active student learning.

5. Create assignments that take advantage of the hybrid format by aligning both in-class and out-of-class activities.

6. Create course design that demonstrates an appreciation for what "Greater than the Sum of Two Parts" means.

7. Utilize UDL and RA concepts in course design.

8. Explain how OER can support student success.

9. Be ready to continue the learning journey by proactively connecting to other participants in the course.

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This resource is designed to provide you with information about the logistics associated with teaching here; teaching basics, your classroom, how-to guides and other useful information.

Depending on your teaching background, we expect this orientation to take approximately 3-4 hours to complete, and it will be available for you to refer to afterward.

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This is a self-paced Canvas Orientation for RTC faculty. It covers how to log in, set up your notifications, the logistics of setting up assignments for your grade book, how to grade, create your syllabus, and how to communicate with students and publish your course. Your experience here will give you insight into the student experience as well.

By the end of this course, you will be able to set up your grade book, make assignments, use nudging tools for your students, create a syllabus, and customize your course to fit your needs. In short, you be ready to use Canvas to help your students succeed.

The course should take you about 2-4 hours to complete.

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RTC is now a member of NISOD, a professional development organization. Each month, they send updates with their recent and future offerings. Create an individual account by following the directions here: nisod.org/membership/create-account/. Also, here is a link to a Zoom Meeting, where a NISOD representative explained the resources available to us.