Workshops and Webinars


The 海角社区 Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) facilitates Canvas learning opportunities on a range of topics and in a variety of forms:

  • Workshops are typically online and last up to three hours
  • Webinars are online and last one hour
  • Build Spaces are in-person, group co-working sessions that last two hours

If you would prefer to learn at your own pace and on your own schedule, check out the quick start and on-demand video and how-to resources.

This list contains only programming relevant to Canvas. 
For a complete listing of CTL's available programming, please visit our Events page. 

A list of our french-language offerings can be found at the bottom of this page.

Vous trouverez notre programmation en français au bas de la page.


UPCOMING CANVAS workshops


Canvas Emergency Kit

[ This workshop is also available in french ]

Pressed for time and need to get your course up and running in Canvas—fast? This hands-on, 3-hour workshop is designed for instructors making the switch to the 海角社区’s new learning management system.

We’ll guide you through the essentials to get you started:

  • navigating and setting up Canvas: What's different from eClass?
  • requesting your new course shell: Where do you start?
  • reviewing your migrated content: What can be kept, and what needs to be checked?
  • customizing your homepage: What do students need to know from you and about the course on Day 1?
  • adding course materials: How do you add migrated content or create new content in modules?
  • setting up assignments and quizzes: How much or little do you want to do online?
  • using SpeedGrader: What's so speedy?
  • accessing and finding just-in-time help: Because you're new to Canvas!
After each main item (above), you will be given time to ask questions and complete a practical task to enhance learning. Throughout the workshop, you will actively build your Canvas course content, ensuring you leave with a tangible outcome and the confidence to keep going.


Upcoming Offerings:

 Sept. 3

 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

 Online


Canvas Workshop Series

The below Canvas Learning Opportunities are designed with your schedule in mind. Throughout these workshops, you will actively build your Canvas course content, ensuring you leave with a tangible outcome.

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

  • Navigate your Canvas sandbox and migrated course content
  • Identify Canvas features that support your evidence-based teaching strategies
  • Use the 海角社区 Canvas template to build your upcoming course(s) and
  • Access just-in-time support

Watch recordings of past Canvas workshops covering the below topics on our Videos and how-to page. 

Workshop #1: Creating Your Course Using Your Migrated Content and the 海角社区 Canvas Template

This workshop, the first of three, covers essential information about the K16 migration and a tour of the Canvas dashboard. You'll discover strategies for organizing content moved from eClass to Canvas. Learn how easy it is to create multimodal course content using your migrated courses and the 海角社区 Canvas template. We'll show you how to seamlessly coordinate student learning with Canvas Modules. You'll practice using Canvas tools like the Rich Content Editor, Pages, Announcements, Discussions, and Studio. Finally, you'll find out where to locate just-in-time resources for additional support.

No upcoming offers are currently scheduled; please check back!

Workshop #2: Building and Grading Assessments for your Course in Canvas

In this workshop, the second of three, we will explore strategies to create assignments and quizzes using the 海角社区 Canvas template. Then, we’ll practice building and grading your course assessments more efficiently with the following Canvas tools: Assignments, Quizzes, Rubrics, and SpeedGrader. Finally, our eClass Support Team will help you navigate your new Canvas Gradebook.

No upcoming offers are currently scheduled; please check back!

Workshop #3: Canvas Features to Maximize Student Engagement

In the previous two workshops, you learned how to build content and assessments in Canvas and organize and coordinate your course's student experience. In this third workshop, you will learn how to maximize student engagement and establish a learning community by leveraging innovative Canvas tools such as Discussions, Groups, Collaborations, Pages with shared editing, Peer Review, Video annotations and quizzes, Analytics, and more.

No upcoming offers are currently scheduled; please check back!

UPCOMING CANVAS Webinars


Join CTL Canvas Specialists for more in-depth explorations of Canvas features from technical and pedagogical perspectives. Short “Wednesday Webinars” on Zoom are scheduled bi-weekly.

Teaching and learning happen in multiple spaces, places, and dimensions of our work at the 海角社区. Every Canvas learning opportunity welcomes anyone engaged in supporting students’ learning experiences.

Each webinar is 45 minutes long (20-minute demonstration + 25-minute Q & A, sharing, and practice).
 


Simplifying Peer Review with Feedback Fruits and Canvas

Thursday, Sep. 18

2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Online, via Zoom

Interested in integrating peer reviews quickly and efficiently into your courses? The Feedback Fruits tool, now accessible in Canvas, will allow you to create individual or group feedback activities for a straightforward and easy-to-manage review experience. 

In this 20-minute webinar, we’ll look at how to create a Feedback Fruits activity in Canvas, explore the review options, and draw inspiration from the templates available on the Feedback Fruits website.

Stay for an additional 25-minute Q&A to discuss this tool in detail.

Learning outcomes:

  1. Create a simple peer review activity using Feedback Fruits in Canvas

  2. Implement features of the tool to help students review their peers' work


Everyone's in Canvas: Making Canvas accessible with four integrated tools

Tuesday, Oct. 07

1:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.

Online, via Zoom

Building accessibility into your Canvas course is about mapping your content and engaging all of your students in more robust yet sustainable ways. By building multiple accessible pathways into your content, instructors create opportunities for students to learn in ways that suit their diverse needs and preferences. 

In this workshop, four integrated tools of Canvas will be demonstrated and explored: 

  • Canvas Studio: for creating accessible media

  • Accessibility checker: for identifying and correcting common accessibility errors

  • Accessibility file converter: for providing accessible formats

  • Immersive reader: for enhancing comprehension

By the end of the workshop, instructors can start building and supporting multiple pathways in their online learning environment. 

Learning outcomes:

  1. Identify the relationship between accessibility in your learning environment and enhancing student experience

  2. Explore four of the accessibility features built into Canvas


Take note! Particularities of the Canvas Gradebook

Monday, Oct. 27

12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.

Online, via Zoom

CTL has received many questions about the Canvas Gradebook this past year.
Building a clear gradebook is the single most important thing you can do to ensure transparency and lower student stress. In this 20-minute webinar, we’ll explain the main difference between the eClass and Canvas gradebooks, we will share some troubleshooting tips, and we will explore some best practices for creating your gradebook and assignments in Canvas.

Learning outcomes:

  1. Organize your Canvas Gradebook in a way that is clear and transparent

  2. Adjust gradebook settings to streamline your workflow


Canvas Pickles: Most Common Mistakes Instructors Make (and How to Fix Them)

Wednesday, Nov. 12

12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.

Online, via Zoom

It’s easy to miss a few key steps–and in Canvas, those steps can make a big difference for students and for your workload. In this 20-minute webinar, we’ll go through the most common setup and design mistakes instructors tend to make when first building a Canvas course, from confusing navigation to missing assignments and unpublished modules.

We’ll show you how to avoid these roadblocks and share quick tips to make your course clear, consistent, and ready for students, help you feel more confident in your course setup, and save you time (and stress) during the term. Stay for an additional 25-minute Q & A to discuss your teaching needs and share creative solutions and best practices.

Learning outcomes:

  1. Identify and fix common issues that prevent students from accessing content

  2. Simplify your course navigation to foster student satisfaction and success


Lucid Whiteboards for Teaching and Learning

Thursday, Dec. 04

12:30 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.

Online, via Zoom

Missing the old Jamboard and its collaboration features? The Lucid Education Suite integration in Canvas is available to instructors and their students!  In this 20-minute webinar, we will explore ideas for interactive assignments, collaborative whiteboarding and flowchart-making, and we will see how to integrate these activities into Canvas.

Stay for an additional 25-minute Q & A to discuss your teaching needs and share creative solutions and best practices.

Learning outcome:

  1. Create some basic collaborative activities using Lucidspark and Lucidchart


Build Spaces


Faculty-Specific Canvas Build Space Sessions are designed to provide targeted support for instructors and staff within a specific faculty. These informal co-working sessions offer a collaborative learning environment where our CTL facilitators circulate the room, providing individualized pedagogical guidance on effectively using Canvas tools and strategies to build courses.

In a Faculty-Specific Canvas Build Space, we bring this support directly to you with a personalized, two-hour in-person session. Our time together is tailored to your teaching team’s unique program, course contexts, and instructional needs.

This space allows you to:

  • minimize distractions
  • problem-solve the eClass to Canvas transition
  • receive pedagogical feedback
  • seize opportunities for idea sharing among colleagues

To host one or more Faculty-Specific Canvas Build Space(s), you provide a room in (or near) your department, as well as registration and communications with your teaching team (instructors and staff). Each registrant brings their device. 

All levels of experience with Canvas are welcome.

 

Complete the to request a Canvas Build Space session.




Ateliers et webinaires


VENDREDIS VITRINE À VENIR


Joignez-vous aux spécialistes Canvas du CTL pour explorer plus en détail les fonctions de Canvas d’un point de vue à la fois technique et pédagogique. Les courts webinaires “vendredis Vitrine” sont offerts un vendredi chaque mois sur Zoom. 

L’enseignement et l’apprentissage se déroulent dans de multiples espaces, lieux et dimensions de notre travail à l’Université de l’Alberta. Nos occasions d’apprentissage Canvas sont ouvertes à toute personne impliquée dans le soutien des expériences d’apprentissage de notre population étudiante.

Toutes les sessions ont lieu en ligne (démo de 20 minutes + période de discussion de 25 minutes).


Wouhou! Un engagement en temps réel avec Wooclap et Canvas

 2 septembre

 de midi à 12 h 45

 en ligne

En utilisant Wooclap et Canvas, vous favoriserez l’engagement de vos personnes étudiantes en temps réel grâce à des outils comme les sondages, les quiz, les nuages de mots et plus encore! Vous aurez ainsi la possibilité d’augmenter la participation active, d’évaluer la compréhension et d’obtenir des rétroactions immédiates.

Pendant ce webinaire de 20 minutes, vous participerez à la démonstration d’une activité formative amusante dans Wooclap et vous verrez comment l’intégrer au carnet de notes dans Canvas. Grâce à l’interface intuitive de Wooclap, vous pourrez facilement créer des activités interactives, inclusives et efficaces d’un point de vue pédagogique. À la fin du webinaire, restez avec nous pour une période de discussion de 25 minutes afin de poser vos questions et échanger avec vos collègues!

Objectifs d'apprentissage:

  1. Envisager l’utilisation de Wooclap, selon votre contexte d’enseignement

  2. Créer et utiliser une activité Wooclap que vous avez intégrée dans Canvas


Simplifiez la révision par les pairs avec Feedback Fruits dans Canvas

12 septembre

de midi à 12 h 45

en ligne

Vous voulez intégrer la révision par les pairs rapidement et efficacement dans vos cours? L’outil Feedback Fruits est maintenant intégré à Canvas afin de vous permettre de créer des activités de rétroaction individuelle ou en groupe, pour une expérience simple et facile à gérer. Pendant ce webinaire de 20 minutes, nous verrons comment créer une activité Feedback Fruits à partir de Canvas, nous explorerons les options de révision et nous irons nous inspirer des gabarits offerts sur le site de Feedback Fruits. À la fin du webinaire, restez avec nous pour une période de discussion de 25 minutes afin de poser vos questions et échanger avec vos collègues!

Objectifs d'apprentissage:

  1. Créer une activité de rétroaction Feedback Fruits simple dans Canvas

  2. Différencier et utiliser les différentes fonctionnalités de manière à aider les personnes étudiantes à réviser le travail de leurs pairs


Prenez-en note! Particularités du carnet de notes dans Canvas

3 octobre

de midi à 12 h 45

Online, via Zoom

Au CTL, nous avons reçu beaucoup de questions à propos du carnet de notes dans Canvas au courant de la dernière année. Construire un carnet de notes clair est l’étape la plus importante de la création de votre cours pour en garantir la transparence et réduire le stress chez vos personnes étudiantes. Pendant ce webinaire de 20 minutes, nous aborderons la principale différence entre les carnets de notes dans eClass et dans Canvas, nous partagerons quelques trucs de réglage et nous explorerons les pratiques exemplaires en matière de création du carnet de notes et des évaluations dans Canvas. À la fin du webinaire, restez avec nous pour une période de discussion de 25 minutes afin de poser vos questions et échanger avec vos collègues!

Objectifs d'apprentissage:

  1. Organiser votre carnet de notes Canvas afin qu’il soit clair et transparent

  2. Ajuster les réglages de votre carnet de notes de manière à en simplifier la gestion


Prenez-en note! Particularités du carnet de notes dans Canvas

7 novembre

de midi à 12 h 45

Online, via Zoom

Au CTL, nous avons reçu beaucoup de questions à propos du carnet de notes dans Canvas au courant de la dernière année. Construire un carnet de notes clair est l’étape la plus importante de la création de votre cours pour en garantir la transparence et réduire le stress chez vos personnes étudiantes. Pendant ce webinaire de 20 minutes, nous aborderons la principale différence entre les carnets de notes dans eClass et dans Canvas, nous partagerons quelques trucs de réglage et nous explorerons les pratiques exemplaires en matière de création du carnet de notes et des évaluations dans Canvas. À la fin du webinaire, restez avec nous pour une période de discussion de 25 minutes afin de poser vos questions et échanger avec vos collègues!

Objectifs d'apprentissage:

  1. Organiser votre carnet de notes Canvas afin qu’il soit clair et transparent

  2. Ajuster les réglages de votre carnet de notes de manière à en simplifier la gestion