Canvas Training Dates

Faculty Training Registration

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 cdetraining@uta.edu.

 

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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.

  • March 1st @ 2:00 pm

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.

  • March 2nd @ 2:00 pm

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.

  • March 8th @ 2:00 pm

Unicheck Plagiarism Check in Canvas (60 minutes)

Unicheck is a plagiarism tool in Canvas used to verify the originality of student submissions. This session will help you add the Unicheck plagiarism tool to Canvas Assignments and understand the originality report it produces.

  • March 9th @ 2:00 pm

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.

  • March 22nd @ 2:00 pm

Canvas New Quizzes (60 minutes)

This session will help you create tests and quizzes using the New Quiz tool in Canvas by creating questions or adding questions from question banks. New Quizzes is the updated quiz tool in Canvas which includes new question types such as, Categorization, Ordering, and Hot Spot.

  • March 23rd @ 2:00 pm

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.

  • March 29th @ 2:00 pm (Online - Microsoft Teams)
  • March 29th @ 2:00 pm (On Campus - Trinity Hall 205)

Accessible Documents for Online Instruction (60 minutes)

Learn to Create Accessible Documents for your online students. This workshop prepares participants to create accessible documents using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat Professional, along with how to add captions to Canvas Studio videos.

  • March 30th @ 2:00 pm