Beyond Canvas: Peer Review
Thursday, November 18 | 1pm - 2pm
Looking for new ways to integrate peer review into your online course assessment practices? Join us and learn about why peer review and peer feedback can impact student learning in online courses.
This session will cover the design principles for peer reviewed assignments, as well as an orientation to navigating, building, and grading assessments with peer review tools.
Facilitators: Helen DeWaard + Meghan McMillen
Beyond Canvas: Make it with Media
Part of TEC EXPO - 2021
This is a make and take session, studio style. Bring your course syllabus or media-making experiences. Be prepared to share your media-making and course design ideas and questions.
The UBC learning management system (Canvas) can be described as a walled garden, where learning is secure and enclosed. But UBC has an abundance of technologies to use and integrate into your course, whether it’s online or in face-to-face places. These technologies can take you and your students safely outside of the walled learning spaces in Canvas.
When considering the course design, it’s often difficult to figure out what technologies are the best fit for student learning or how to incorporate them into the course. This session will give you time to explore technologies as you think critically about integrating new media-making technologies, such as the ones listed on CTLT technologies page. Let’s peek over the Canvas walls, or even consider building a gate to step through, figuratively speaking.
Facilitators: Helen DeWaard + Ka-Yee Chu
Beyond Canvas: Collaborative Spaces
Part of TEC EXPO - 2021
This interactive workshop explores two collaborative spaces (Etherpad, Padlet, and other collaborative spaces). Participants will learn and interact with some of the features and explore possibilities for incorporating these tools into their own teaching and learning environments.
Facilitators: Meghan McMillen + Simone Hausknecht
Videos in Canvas
Friday, December 10 | 11am - 12pm
Using video in your courses can have positive benefits to student learning, and Canvas supports videos in multiple ways. This workshop will review various ways to make and use videos, including:
- Creation of videos, such as lecture videos, using UBC-supported tools like Camtasia and Kaltura Capture
- Using video feedback in Canvas to help provide positive encouragement to students
- Uploading your videos to Kaltura, a UBC video platform which gives you full control over sharing and access.
- Making your videos accessible using automated captions.
- Sharing of resources for learning how to make great videos.
Facilitators: Ian Linkletter + Ka-Yee Chu
Drop-in Help
- Thursday, December 23 | 10AM-12PM
This is a special drop-in session to prepare for January online start of the term.
The Zoom breakout rooms will be open for two hours covering:
- First hour: orientation to Canvas (for new Canvas users), including course setup, basic communication tools and building community of learners
- Second hour: Using Zoom effectively in the classroom environment
- Both hours: 1-on-1 help with any learning design or educational technology question
Facilitators: Ka-Yee Chu, Hazel Chongoti, Helen DeWaard
Drop-in Help
- Wednesday, January 5th | 12PM-2PM
This is a special drop-in session to prepare for January online start of the term.
The Zoom breakout rooms will be open for two hours covering:
- First hour: orientation to Canvas (for new Canvas users), including course setup, basic communication tools and building community of learners
- Second hour: Using Zoom effectively in the classroom environment
- Both hours: 1-on-1 help with any learning design or educational technology question
Facilitators: Hazel Chongoti, Gabrielle Coombs
Drop-in Help
- Thursday, January 6th | 10AM-12PM
This is a special drop-in session to prepare for January online start of the term.
The Zoom breakout rooms will be open for two hours covering:
- First hour: orientation to Canvas (for new Canvas users), including course setup, basic communication tools and building community of learners
- Second hour: Using Zoom effectively in the classroom environment
- Both hours: 1-on-1 help with any learning design or educational technology question
Facilitators: Hazel Chongoti, Gabrielle Coombs
Asynchronous Activities
Thursday, January 27 | 1pm - 2pm
Whether planning a blended course or preparing for your course to go online for a week, come explore engaging asynchronous activities that can give your students new ways to interact with each other and course content. This workshop will explore theories of blended practice and introduce you to a series of asynchronous activities and how to personalize these for your course. Come share your ideas!
Facilitators: Yvonne Dawydiak + Simone Hausknecht
Canvas: Evaluation and SpeedGrader
Thursday, February 3 | 11am - 12pm
Learn how to grade and give feedback in Canvas. This one-hour workshop is interactive and requires pre-registration so we can prepare your activities. It is intended for instructors currently teaching using Canvas.
Using a time-saving tool called SpeedGrader, you can give students enhanced feedback using document annotation, media comments, and rubrics. This workshop will give you hands-on experience in using it to the benefit of you and your students.
Facilitators: Gabrielle Coombs + Hazel Chongoti
The Canvas refresher and Teaching with Zoom – ELI
Friday, February 18 | 10am - 12pm
Come and join us to get a refresher on how to use Canvas and Zoom for teaching. This workshop will help you get more comfortable navigating Canvas, and you will learn how to set up modules, assignments, discussions, and more. You will also learn how to integrate Zoom into Canvas, and how to make Zoom work for you and your students during your synchronous lessons. You’ll also be able to ask our team-specific questions about Canvas and Zoom.
Facilitators: Gabrielle Coombs + Hazel Chongoti