Workshops and Webinars
Join CTL Canvas specialists for in-depth explorations of specific Canvas features from technical and pedagogical perspectives.
Each webinar is 45 minutes long (20-minute demonstration + 25-minute Q & A).
Join CTL Canvas specialists for hands-on, guided workflows designed to help you build and refine your Canvas courses.
Each workshop is up to three hours long and is offered either in person or online.
Bring targeted support directly to your department with a personalized, 2-hour in-person co-working session, where CTL Canvas specialists provide pedagogical and technical guidance tailored to your team’s unique course needs. All experience levels are welcome.
Key Benefits:
- Hands-on help with course building and design
- Distraction-free working time and peer collaboration
Host Requirements:
Your department provides a local room and handles internal registration; participants bring their own devices.
Complete the Faculty or Unit-Specific Workshop request form to request a Canvas Build Space session.
Upcoming Canvas Learning Opportunities
This list contains only programming relevant to Canvas.
For a complete listing of CTL's available programming, please visit our Events page.
Organizing your Canvas Gradebook
Wednesday, Oct. 21
12:00 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Online | via Zoom
See session description / details
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 share workflow and troubleshooting tips, and we will explore some best practices for creating your gradebook and assignments in Canvas. Stay for an additional 25-minute Q&A to discuss this tool in detail.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Organize your Canvas Gradebook in a way that is clear and transparent
- Adjust gradebook settings to streamline your workflow
Peer Feedback That Works: Putting Good Pedagogy into Practice with Canvas
Friday, Oct. 30
12:00 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Online | via Zoom
See session description / details
Research shows that giving peer feedback sharpens students’ evaluative judgment of their own work. This 50-minute webinar bridges pedagogy, practice, and technology to show how peer feedback can elevate your teaching. We will start with a summary of research on the learning value of peer feedback. Next, Associate Teaching Professor Kristy Hermann will share how she puts peer feedback into practice in her Nursing courses. Finally, you will see a demonstration of FeedbackFruits—a Canvas-integrated tool that streamlines peer review workflows.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Explain how giving peer feedback strengthens students' evaluative judgment and achievement of learning outcomes
- Recognize opportunities to apply peer feedback activities in their own teaching
- Leverage the FeedbackFruits integration within Canvas to manage and elevate peer review tasks
Gestion de quiz dans Canvas
23 octobre
12h à 12h50
En ligne
Voir la description / les détails de la séance
Qu'arrive-t-il si une personne étudiante perd sa connexion en plein examen ou si une mesure d’accommodement exige 1.5x le temps? Au cours de ce webinaire de 20 minutes, nous passerons à travers différents scénarios pour vous aider à gérer vos quiz Canvas en toute confiance. Nous verrons comment ajouter du temps en direct, rouvrir une tentative après un pépin technique et utiliser l’heure limite efficacement pour assurer le bon déroulement de vos évaluations.
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
À la fin de cette séance, vous serez en mesure de faire ce qui suit :
- Gérer efficacement le temps, la disponibilité et les tentatives d’examen, que ce soit à l'avance ou en direct
- Se familiariser avec le processus d'exemption pour adapter l'évaluation au dossier d’une personne étudiante
Diversifying your Question Types in Canvas Quizzes
Thursday, Nov. 19
11:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Online | via Zoom
See session description / details
Now that Reading Week is over, you might be getting ready to create your final exams online. In this 20-minute webinar, we’ll showcase all of the different question types available in the Canvas New Quizzes engine and how they appear on the students’ screens. We will also differentiate between questions that are graded automatically or manually.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Create different types of questions for your online quizzes
- Differentiate manually vs automatically graded questions