Mailing Address:
PO Box 19201
Arlington, TX 76019-0027
Physical Address:
800 Greek Row Drive
Trinity Hall, 2nd floor
Arlington, TX 76019-0027
Phone:
817-272-5727
Currently, all Canvas training sessions will be online through Microsoft Teams. Links to training meeting will be emailed to registrants prior to the session.
If you have any questions related to Canvas training, please send an email to [email protected].
TidyUp - Canvas (60 minutes)
TidyUP is a tool in Canvas courses to assist in quickly identifying and cleaning up course content to increase accessibility. It assists in reviewing and removing extra files, folders, pages, or assignments that are no longer needed to make the course easier to manage and more accessible for everyone.
Ally Accessibility Tool in Canvas (60 minutes)
Ally is a tool in canvas that provides guidance and tips to make your content accessible by providing feedback on the accessibility of your content and step by step instructions to improve content accessibility. Ally also provides your students with alternative versions of your files that allow students to choose the type of file that best suits their needs.
Canvas Gradebook (60 minutes)
The Canvas Grade book contains many tools that make grading and contacting students easier. Learn how to reorganize the grade book columns, email students from the grade book, automatically deduct points for late submissions, hide grades from students, and different grade book views and filters. We will also discuss using Canvas to calculate a final grade.
Turnitin Plagiarism Tool in Canvas (60 minutes)
Turnitin is a plagiarism tool in Canvas used to verify the originality of student submissions. This session will help you add the Turnitin plagiarism tool to Canvas Assignments and understand the originality report it produces.
Respondus Lockdown Browser (60 minutes)
Add the Lockdown Browser to any Canvas quiz to add a layer of security to your exams. We will discuss the various lockdown browser settings, Respondus Monitor, and the new Instructor Live Proctoring feature.
Canvas Assignments (60 minutes)
Create Assignments in Canvas. In this session, you will learn to create Assignments in Canvas, grade online submissions with SpeedGrader, and create columns in the Gradebook for offline assignments. We will also cover using Assignment Groups to organize your Assignments and calculate a final grade in Canvas.
Canvas Discussion Boards (60 minutes)
Create Discussion Board Forums in your Canvas course where students can discuss topics with their classmates. This session will help you create discussion board forums, create group discussion board forums, and grading student responses.
Canvas Rubrics (60 minutes)
Create and manage rubrics in a Canvas course. Add rubrics to assignments, quizzes, and discussion boards to use for grading.