For­mat: Se­mi­nar

Type: On­line

Du­ra­ti­on: 2.5h

Tar­get group: Tea­chers

The lear­ning plat­form Can­vas of­fers a wide range of op­ti­ons for pro­vi­ding lear­ning ma­te­ri­als, com­mu­ni­ca­ting with stu­dents and ac­com­pany­ing the lear­ning pro­cess. When crea­ting a cour­se, tea­chers have in­di­vi­du­al de­sign op­ti­ons thanks to va­rious set­tings and func­tio­na­li­ties.

For op­ti­mal pre­pa­ra­ti­on of your cour­se, it is ad­vis­able to fa­mi­lia­ri­ze yours­elf with the lear­ning plat­form be­fo­re the se­mes­ter be­gins.

At the end of the se­mi­nar you will re­cei­ve a com­pact check­list which you can use to check whe­ther you have made the most im­portant pre­pa­ra­ti­ons for your cour­se be­fo­re the start of the se­mes­ter.

Con­tent:

• Pro­fi­le and cour­se set­tings

• Da­sh­board

• Mem­ber ma­nage­ment

• Inbox, an­noun­ce­ments, dis­cus­sions

• Mo­du­les

• File upload

• As­sign­ments and quiz­zes

• Speed­Gra­der and gra­de­book

What you will learn in this se­mi­nar...

• Keep an over­view of all your cour­ses on the da­sh­board

• Set ap­pro­pria­te no­ti­fi­ca­ti­on set­tings to be no­ti­fied by email about ac­ti­vi­ties from your cour­se

• De­fi­ne cour­se set­tings and cus­to­mi­ze the vi­si­bi­li­ty and order of menu items in the left side menu

• Edit cour­se home page to cus­to­mi­ze texts, ban­ner image and but­tons

• Ma­nu­al­ly add peop­le to and re­mo­ve peop­le from cour­ses

• Crea­te group sets, crea­te groups and use the group workspace

• Use clas­sic com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on tools such as an­noun­ce­ments, dis­cus­sions and the inbox

• Crea­te mo­du­les and in­sert files, con­tent pages, as­sign­ments and quiz­zes into mo­du­les to pro­vi­de stu­dents with an op­ti­mal lear­ning en­vi­ron­ment

• Reuse ma­te­ri­als in other cour­ses and new se­mes­ters or share with col­le­agues

• Crea­te open as­sign­ments that stu­dents can use to upload files or enter texts

• Crea­te multiple-​choice ques­ti­ons, cloze tasks, matching tasks and much more with quiz­zes to make lear­ning in­ter­ac­ti­ve

• Enter and pu­blish as­sess­ments in the Speed­Gra­der or grade book

The event is de­si­gned so that you can ask ques­ti­ons and exchan­ge ideas with others at any time. Best-​practice examp­les from tea­ching will give you ideas on how you can im­ple­ment your cour­se with Can­vas. There will also be prac­ti­cal sec­tions where you can crea­te con­tent yours­elf and try out what you have learnt.

Note:

For deeper ex­plo­ra­ti­on of spe­ci­fic to­pics, we re­com­mend to par­ti­ci­pa­te in the Se­mi­nars (only in Ger­man lan­guage):

• Can­vas Ad­van­ced | Lern­ma­te­ria­li­en über­sicht­lich struk­tu­rie­ren und auf­be­rei­ten

• Can­vas Ad­van­ced | Stu­die­ren­den­ab­ga­ben im Span­nungs­feld von Auf­ga­be, Quiz und Dis­kus­si­on

• Can­vas Ad­van­ced | Das No­ten­buch ein­rich­ten und ein­set­zen

Trai­ner: Ma­ri­sa Hai­der, MSc (WU)