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.
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.
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.
This video course introduces you to key features and functions of ServiceNow. This series of interactive videos, designed for new users, teaches you to navigate the interface, quickly locate relevant information, and maximize productivity by customizing your workspace.
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Bring another level of engagement to your courses using Top Hat, Penn State’s new student response system and comprehensive teaching platform. In this training you’ll learn how you can use Top Hat to streamline attendance and participation, increase student engagement, deliver low stakes assessments, and more. You’ll also have time to experience and practice creating, organizing, and sharing content. We will cover how to set up the Canvas integration, share tips for getting your students connected, and how to sync Top Hat grades and assignments with your course to save you time and effort!
Want to explore more advanced options for analyzing and manipulating your data in iTwo? These hands-on training sessions build upon the topics presented in iTwo: Getting Started with Data Analysis. Over the course of 2 sessions, you’ll dive deeper into the options available in iTwo, developing more complex queries while building upon the skills you gained in the introductory training.
Self-Study Option
A self-study alternative to the online training is also available. This allows you to study the materials on your own and then take a 10 question online assessment to test-out of the training. Completing this assessment serves as the equivalent of completing the online session. This is an excellent option if you are looking to receive training and access to iTwo right away, or if you prefer to go over the materials on your own, at your own pace. Please refer to the assessment and corresponding instructions.
This hands-on online training session is designed for advanced users of iTwo and builds upon the knowledge and skills presented in iTwo: Getting Started with Data Analysis and the iTwo: Advancing Your Skills training sessions. This session focuses on the basic skills needed to create interactive dashboards.
This hands-on, online training session introduces new users to iTwo, Oracle’s business intelligence tool. Throughout the session, you’ll explore some of the many features available for finding, analyzing, and visualizing your data in iTwo. You’ll also have the opportunity to practice navigating in the tool as you are guided through the process of creating analyses. Finally, you will be shown helpful resources for learning more about iTwo and your data after you leave the training. To complete the self-assessment option, follow the link below to this course, download the handout, and complete the handout exercises on your own; then, take the self-assessment (found in the Learning Path link above this course).
Self-Study Option
A self-study alternative to the online training is also available. This allows you to study the materials on your own and then take a 10 question online assessment to test-out of the training. Completing this assessment serves as the equivalent of completing the online session. This is an excellent option if you are looking to receive training and access to iTwo right away, or if you prefer to go over the materials on your own, at your own pace. The assessment and its corresponding instructions can be accessed here.
This video explains how to read and interpret data in iTwo. The user will learn how to read common iTwo tables and graphs, as well as how to interpret the results.
