IT Learning and Development’s Brown Bags are one-hour online sessions that take place over a standard lunch hour. Canvas Brown Bags deal with a variety of topics in Canvas such as transitioning your course to a new semester, groups, and integrations. Check out the various Canvas Brown Bag topics and descriptions below.
To view and register for upcoming sessions, please visit the Learning Resource Network and search for “Canvas Brown Bag.”
Innovate your teaching in Canvas by integrating the Office365 learning tool in your course. This learning tool integration (LTI) allows students and instructors to create, share, and collaborate on O365 files within Canvas. During this one-hour demonstration session, participants will learn how to add the O365 LTI to their course and will explore how to update their content and assignments by adding OneDrive files.
Are you interested in getting up and running with your Canvas courses each semester in a faster, more streamlined way? This one-hour demonstration will outline tasks to complete in your courses at the end of the current semester and beginning of a new semester to make the transition to each new term as smooth as possible. You will review tasks along with how-to resources and suggested timelines. Participants will leave with practical strategies to enhance their existing strategies for managing and organizing their courses in Canvas.
Would you like to discover new ways to incorporate content and formative assessment tools into your course to increase student interaction and engagement? This one-hour online demonstration will share uses and applications of LinkedIn Learning videos, Box, Learning Apps, and other tools in a Canvas course. By participating in this session, you will be able to locate, create, and embed interactive tools into your Canvas course.
Are you interested in learning about the gradebook features in Canvas? Join us for this one-hour brown bag session for an overview demonstration of the Canvas gradebook.
If you use Canvas Groups in your courses, do you feel that your students are fully utilizing their group spaces to collaborate and communicate? To help you and your students get the most out of Canvas Groups, this one-hour demonstration will explore Canvas Groups from both student and faculty points-of-view, including specific strategies for promoting student collaboration using Groups and options for monitoring group members' progress throughout the semester. If you use Canvas Groups in your courses and want some concrete tips for maximizing their potential value to your students, this session is for you!
NOTE: This session will NOT include the basics of creating Canvas Groups or adding students. Please see Module 6 in the Canvas Learning Center for self-paced resources on creating and managing Groups in your courses.
Penn State's Canvas Learning Center serves as a gateway for faculty and support staff to get the most out of using Canvas for teaching and learning. The learning path is housed within a Canvas course and designed to be your one-stop-shop for learning how to use Canvas, whether you do so at your own pace or through live training!
This Canvas module introduces students to Canvas at Penn State. Learn ways to import and customize the module for any Canvas course in the Canvas Learning Center.
Snow day? Remote teaching? Unable to attend class? Regardless of the reason, it is important to have a plan for enabling continuity of instruction. With Canvas, Kaltura, and Zoom, you can keep students engaged and accountable for course material whether your primary mode of instruction is in-person, remote synchronous, remote asynchronous, or mixed mode. In this session, you will get an overview of options that will help you deliver your content using various Zoom, Kaltura, and Canvas tools such as automatic chapters and slides, interactive transcripts, and reusable lectures.
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.
Use Zoom or Kaltura Capture to record and share instructional content videos with students.
This document reviews recommended tools, equipment, settings, and best practices for participating in Zoom video conferences.
All Penn State faculty, staff, and students can use Zoom to host online meetings and webinars. This guide walks you through the steps of hosting a meeting or webinar.
This video is intended for Penn State staff who support IT Services. The primary topic is the Major Incident Process. Recent improvements to this process have resulted in more streamlined steps and clear lines of responsibility and communication. You will walk away with visual reference materials describing this process and your role in it.
