Speakers and Session Details

Carol Peckinpaugh, M.Ed. & Jana Roman

Packing for Class: Course Checklist

By researching best practices and learning from colleagues using Canvas as a teaching and learning platform, the UT Tyler Course Checklist was developed to assist faculty in the preparation of courses for students. Attend this session to receive the checklist and participate in a review of a course preparing to go live for students.

Holley Collier, Ed.D.

Building a Base Camp: Instructor Presence

Explore strategic examples showing how faculty have increased their instructor presence online. Examples include simple and complex plans: wording feedback, video production, and building social experiences for students to interact. Attend this session with your own examples to share. Be apart of the discussion with your colleagues building ideas to promote presence in the online production of a course.

Rick Helfers, Ph.D.

Learning the Ropes: Assignments

Are you troubled by online assignments? Are you interested in connecting online assignments to face-to-face class time? Do you have a favorite assignment from years of teaching, but you don't know how to get the same results online? Join Dr. Helfers as he discusses his procedures for creating assignments in his blended learning environments.

BYOD Sessions

  • ePortfolio: What type of portfolio do your students graduate with? Come explore Canvas' ePortfolio tool.
  • Turnitin: Join representatives from Turnitin, our NEW plagiarism tool in Canvas, to learn how to utilize the resources. Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to engage students in the writing process, provide personalized feedback, and assess student progress over time. Turnitin is used by more than 30 million students at 15,000 institutions in 150 countries.
  • Office 365: Join Geanina King and Greg Brandenburg as they lead you through the advantages of using Office 365 in your Canvas Course.

Camp Fires

Join a small group to collaborate on the following questions. Each small group's feedback to the questions will be shared with other camp fire teams.

        • How do you personalize your homepage?
        • How do you integrate collaboration into Canvas?
        • What do you want to do with Canvas?
        • Q&A