This session will cover time-tested strategies for improving the student experience in digital learning spaces and will empower you with resources to meet your students’ needs. We’ve offered 2 dates for more flexibility – we look forward to providing you with 1-on-1 support!
Facilitators: Simone Hausknecht + Faeyza Mufti
Receive one-on-one support for all your questions about setting up and teaching online with Canvas (UBC’s primary all-in-one platform for delivering online courses) and other learning technology tips and tricks.
This session will ensure that you get a chance to have your questions answered and receive personalized support from an ETS staff member. Come ready with any questions you may have about Canvas!
Facilitators: Meghan McMillen + Naomi Sawai
Co-facilitator: Aryan Varma
The pandemic pushed faculties and students into a world of teaching and learning that increasingly weaves online and in-person learning and re-envisions the needs for the use of learning technologies. Please join our panelists from the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Faculty of Medicine, and Faculty of Education to explore the possible directions of designing for learning in terms of the hybridization of courses and technology use. Our panelists bring their unique views and specific needs (e.g. large vs small courses, professional training and practice, pedagogical considerations) from these Faculties. We also invite the audience to join in the discussion with their perspectives, questions, and commentaries.
Join ETS learning designer Helen DeWaard as she welcomes Stephanie Savage, Scholarly Communications and Copyright Services Librarian at UBC Library, for a session on the basics of copyright for teaching and sharing. This session will primarily cover the perspective of instructors as users of copyrighted works in their teaching activities and will include information on user rights, creative commons licenses, online teaching, and considerations for sharing materials outside of the UBC classroom environment. A presentation will be followed with ample time for questions.
Facilitators: Helen DeWaard + Stephanie Savage
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that addresses learner differences and helps to improve accessibility for learners. UDL is intended to give all students an equal opportunity to succeed. In this workshop, you will learn about the value of applying the UDL Guidelines and learn about some gaps in the framework. We will also take a look at tools and tips to help improve your courses.
Ally is one such tool that can be integrated in Canvas to help you begin. Ally can help make courses more accessible by providing you with a report containing practical guidance with its time-saving interface with identifies and ranks the improvements needed. It also allows students to download documents in alternative formats (like audio or electronic braille). This session will explore Ally in action, and walk you through how to request it for your course.
Facilitators: Parm Gill + Gabrielle Coombs
Come join us in an interactive session where we will help you set up a basic Canvas shell and explore using the online learning environment to enhance your in-person classes. We will consider options such as entrance and exit slips, flipped classroom, online group work, creating spaces for handouts, pre-class multimedia activities.
Note: While this workshop is focused on instructors within the English Language Institute, anyone with questions about Canvas is more than welcome to join!
Facilitators: Simone Hausknecht + Gabrielle Coomb
Join our Canvas Assignments Masterclass workshop as we take a deep dive into navigating, building, and grading assignments, group assignments and peer review on Canvas. We will uncover the hidden quirks of using these tools, troubleshooting common and not-so-common problems, and answering all your questions regarding Canvas assignments.
Facilitators: Gabrielle Coombs + Hazel Chongoti
Interested in chatting about your course design strategies? Looking for additional insights and help? Come to our Learning Design Buffet meeting for a 1-on-1 consultation.
We will walk you through some of the time-tested strategies for improving the student experience in digital learning spaces and empower you with resources to meet your student needs!
Facilitators: ETS Learning Designers
All tools and technologies that are not officially supported by UBC, need to go through a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) process, before being implemented for teaching and learning and used by students.
Educational Technology Support (ETS) recently completed a PIA for Padlet, a real-time collaborative web platform in which users can upload, organize, and share content to virtual bulletin boards called “padlets”. At the Faculty of Education (FoE), padlets are embedded within the Canvas learning management system, allowing instructors and students to post content and respond to discussions.
PIA is a risk management and compliance review process used to identify and address potential information privacy and security issues, thus avoiding costly program, service, or process redesign and minimizing exposure to potential privacy breaches. British Columbia’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) requires public bodies such as UBC to conduct a PIA for all new or substantially modified projects.
To learn more about the PIA process, visit the following article by Privacy Matters @ UBC:
Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) at Privacy Matters @ UBC
After conducting the PIA, Padlet has been officially approved to be used in the Faculty of Education following a mitigation plan to protect information and work in a safe environment. The mitigation plan includes disposing all personal information beyond the one-year mark, developing a records retention plan, discouraging registration using Google, Apple, or Microsoft credentials, using UBC password standards, and including privacy notifications.
To read the full report, click on the following link:
PIA Report – Padlet Use in FoE Courses
To learn more about Padlet and ways you can use it in your classroom, visit our new Padelt page on the ETS website.
Below is a Padlet from our Beyond Canvas: Collaborative Spaces workshop.
