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)