An overview of IBIS concepts, using CCOM to generate reports and complete financial processes.
NOTE: IT Learning and Development documentation that focuses on creating documents that meet the Accessibility guidelines of the PSU Accessibility Office.
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.
Would you like a quick overview of the new features in the Canvas gradebook? Join us during this one-hour brown bag session for a demonstration of what’s new and updated. You will walk away with a clear understanding of how the new gradebook can enhance teaching and learning in Canvas.
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 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.
In this hands-on workshop, participants will become familiar with the basic tools for data management in Microsoft Excel 2016. Participants learn how to import, extract, and manipulate spreadsheet data. Participants will also use some of Excel’s tools to help manage multiple worksheets, visually compare workbooks, and work more efficiently in Excel.
Objectives
• Create tables and pivot tables
• Explore workbook and worksheet protection
• Import, sort, filter and validate data
• Create built-in and custom lists
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.
