OAT Training Opportunities

"Let's Get Better At Canvas" - Fall 2024 Workshops

In August, OAT offered a week-long series of workshops for Fall 2024 designed to get instructors of all skill levels comfortable using Canvas, the university's primary LMS for course web sites and online teaching.

Below are links to recordings of all the sessions.  Stan State login is required to view.

Canvas Basics

Your Canvas Account + Modules
Learn to manage and customize your Canvas account and take a first look at organizing a course by adding files and links to Modules

Communicating on Canvas + Ally
Learn about announcements, emailing your class, creating content and links using the Rich Content Editor, as well as how to improve the accessibility of course materials using Ally.

Canvas (New) Quizzes
An introduction to creating New Quizzes in Canvas. Primary attention will be given to the New Quizzes engine with a brief look at the Classic quiz engine.

Assignments & Rubrics & Speedgrader, Oh My!
Learn how to build a graded assignment and create a rubric that will be applied using Speedgrader. This session will also show you how to organize course activities to use a weighted grade book

Canvas Potpourri
Discussions, grade book management, tracking attendance, creating custom navigation links, closing courses and handling incompletes.

Canvas Enhancements

VoiceThread
VoiceThread offers a highly flexible and interactive way for instructors and students to create presentations and engage with multimedia content. Generate social presence in asynchronous online courses.

Discussions Plus (powered by Harmonize)
The "plus" means it's better! Create multiple due dates ("milestones") within discussions, add annotations to video posts, easily create private student writing assignments with AI coaching

Padlet
A digital bulletin board used for curating media and generating collaborative learning

Hypothesis
Place active discussion right on top of course readings via annotation and enable students and teachers to add comments and start conversations in the margins of texts

Canvas Enhancements Potpourri
Learn more about Panopto (video storage), Turnitin (plagiarism and AI detection), and Respondus Lockdown Browser (secure test-taking environment)

CSU Online Course Services

The CSU Online Course Services Program offers FREE professional development Quality Learning and Teaching (QLT) courses for tenure-faculty and lecturer faculty across all 23 CSU Campuses.  All courses are taught by certified CSU Facilitators who are faculty and/or instructional designers with extensive experience and training in teaching and evaluating online courses. All courses are 3-weeks in length, online, asynchronous, require 15-20 hours, with a structured course schedule.  For more information and course registration: CSU-QLT Courses.

The 3 QLT Courses

1. Introduction to Teaching Online using QLT – Introduction to teaching online with the CSU QLT rubric. Content covered QLT includes orienting students to the online course, setting up the structure and navigation, designing online modules for content delivery and engagement, developing discussions, developing assessment tools, and using technology tools.

2. Advanced Course in Teaching Online – Advanced QLT course in creating a course and module structure that is in QLT alignment with course objectives, incorporates social presence, equity-minded strategies, engagement strategies in synchronous and asynchronous activities, active learning with video, and alternative assessments. Participants will complete a QLT Core 24 self-review on their own course for reflection to guide them as they progress through the course in identifying areas to improve on. The final project will include creating a video tour to highlight three course changes made in the course while completing the training. Note: having a partially or fully developed online/hybrid course is required prior to registration.

3. Reviewer Courses Using QLT – Provides an in-depth experience with the CSU QLT rubric and ways to use QLT objective-based examples to support reviewing and informing online and hybrid courses. Participants will engage in hands-on experiences using the QLT objectives to rate elements of a sample course, learn how to write helpful recommendations, and discuss examples for setting up a peer-review process on their campus. This session is for those looking to use the rubric to complete a QLT self-review and/or serve as a peer-review on campus and systemwide QLT formal course certifications.