This hands-on workshop will prepare participants to design and deliver assignments in Canvas, Penn State’s Learning Management System. Participants will be guided through the steps for creating assignment groups, creating assignments, and selecting assignment settings. Participants will also explore assessment options and settings within Canvas, assignment groups rules and attaching rubrics.
This hands-on workshop will prepare participants to design and deliver assessments using the Canvas Quiz Tool. Participants will be guided through the steps for creating quizzes, selecting quiz settings, incorporating a rubric, and adding questions to a quiz. Participants will also explore options and settings within Canvas, including settings for question display, interaction, review, and feedback.
This hands-on session prepares Canvas users to optimize content for accessibility. Participants learn to identify accessibility issues within content, use the Rich Content Editor, create extended deadlines for quiz and assignment submissions, and use recommended guidelines for accessible quizzes.
Collaborating and communicating online has become an integral part of our day-to-day lives, but it’s often messy and hard to navigate across multiple apps and devices. Join us for a brown bag session to learn how to create and organize a virtual collaboration space with Microsoft Teams. You’ll have a chance to explore relevant features available in Teams (channels, apps, tabs etc.) and walk away with tips for setting up, organizing, and managing your Team to make collaboration more seamless.
This hands-on online session focuses on the Sites at Penn State tool, a blogging and website platform powered by WordPress. Get started with the Sites at Penn State tool and learn to create a personal or course blog, department, event, or course website, or an ePortfolio. Discuss best practices for managing text, posts, pages, media, and themes while exercising best practices in site design.
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With the introduction of G-suite for education alongside the existing Office 365 collaboration tools, it can be difficult to determine which tools may best suit your needs. In this session, we will compare tools available in G-suite and Office 365 for productivity, storage, and collaboration. In addition, we will work through several use cases to determine which tool(s) might be best to use for your unique needs.
