Canvas theme webinars

A Canvas theme webinar can be a nice introduction to the tools Canvas offers for your education. Or maybe you already have some experience with creating and using your Canvas Course, but you would like to learn how a Canvas feature can help you enrich your blended or online PBL courses. Then join our quick and focused theme webinars.

Give us 30 minutes of your time and enrich your course

In 30 minutes, we address both didactics and the best workflow in Canvas. Each session consists of 15 minutes explanation plus 15 minutes Q&A. When you read this item, 3 webinars already took place, but more sessions are coming up and topics can be added upon request.

The sessions are suitable for course coordinators and tutors who like to learn how each Canvas feature can enrich a blended or online PBL course. Missed out on a webinar you wanted to attend? Don’t worry! The 15 minute explanation is recorded and shared on the Canvas Support Portal.

Good to know! These sessions count toward your Continuous Professional Development and are worth their time (30 minutes). More information will soon appear on EDLAB CPD website.

 

Impression of the first two sessions

The first two webinars focused on 1. Collaborative Group Work and 2. Designing and Guiding Discussions. Because the topics are strongly related, we combine the impression in one item.

The Canvas collaborative group area provides a safe group environment for student-directed discussion and collaboration, which tutors can access for guidance, feedback and monitoring. Students are in the lead to shape their own environment with pages and write enriched texts collaboratively. Additionally, the group area is ideal for saving and sharing files, presentations, and videos. Finally, students can set-up their own videoconferencing sessions in Zoom and Big Blue Button, and enter their own Collaborate Ultra group room for live interactive group meetings and working on the whiteboard together.

One of the participants shared:

During the first mini-webinar, we discussed how to design online collaboration in Canvas to support constructive, collaborative, contextual and self-directed learning. We identified advantages of organising group collaboration in the LMS and demonstrated how to organise it in Canvas and how to access it as a student and as a tutor.

 

To conclude

• Find manuals for all the tools covered in the webinar.
• Please watch the recordings that will become available on a dedicated channel. And because the Q&A session will not be recorded, we will take care that the most important questions will be added to the FAQ page in the Canvas Support Portal.

Author: Ilse Sistermans, Blended PBL Support at UM Library

 

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.

 

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