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 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.
Are you looking for a basic overview of Canvas (Penn State’s Learning Management System)? This 1-hour demonstration session will introduce you to the fundamentals of Canvas at Penn State. You will walk away with best practices and resources for using Canvas to facilitate teaching and learning.
This course can be delivered online via Zoom or in-person as a 1 hour demonstration session.
Do you want to use multiple methods to measure students' mastery of your course content? This 2.5-hour hands-on session will prepare you to design and deliver a variety of assessments in Canvas. You will walk through the steps for creating assignments and quizzes and explore quiz settings that determine how students interact with questions and review and receive feedback.
Every Canvas course should be built on a solid foundation of well-organized content. During this 2.5-hour hands-on session, you will begin constructing that foundation for one of your Canvas courses. Specifically, you will build a course structure with Modules, add Pages, upload files, and explore options for building a Course Home Page and Syllabus.
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.
Are you looking for ways to speed up your grading processes? Would you like to quickly provide feedback or message students about a specific assignment? During this 2.5-hour hands-on session, you will learn to use the Canvas Gradebook for grade management and reporting. Explore how to organize and view grades, utilize SpeedGrader for grading and feedback, and pull grades from Canvas into LionPATH.
Charts comparing when to use Outlook desktop version (for Mac/PC) or Outlook on the Web (browser-based).
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.
