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Canvas Conference on Demand!

• Did you know that it only takes 10 - 15 minutes to add fun, attention-grabbing, clickable buttons on your Canvas course homepage?
• Did you know that there are many cool third-party tools such as Teams meetings and Gradescope that you can plug and play in your Canvas course?

These are just a glimpse of what was shared at the Canvas Conference during the week of March 6-10, 2023. If you missed the live conference, no fear! With the consent of our awesome presenters, we at the Faculty Center recorded the meetings so you can learn new ways to up your Canvas game on your own schedule. The offerings are listed below.

• Panel 1: Approaches to Engaging Students

  Watch if you want to:

  • Grab your students’ attention with easy-to-make, visually appealing pages
  • Up your quiz game by making quizzes into escape rooms

  Presentation 1: "Using Canva in Canvas - How to make your Canvas Shell More Visually Appealing for Students" - Rachel Nortz (Speech-Language Pathology)

  Presentation 2: "Scavenger Hunt Escape Room Activities Using Canvas Quizzes" - Jerry Limberg, Amanda Kalish, and Virginia Velati Tirona (Library)

• Panel 2: Communicating with Students

  Watch if you want to:

  • Motivate your students to do the readings and reflect on what they read
  • Try out a fast new way of online grading and giving feedback with Gradescope

  Presentation 1: "Communicating Effectively and Increasing Completion Rates: Low-Stakes Tools for Student Success" - Meegan Feori-Payne (CoBA Marketing)

  Presentation 2: "Gradescope: Fast, Easy Grading With Good Feedback" - Shahed Sharif (Mathematics)

• Plenary (1): Microsoft Teams Integration for Enhanced Student Engagement & Collaboration

  Watch if you want to Learn more about:

  • Creating and recording meetings, live interactions and more in Microsoft Teams as part of Canvas
• Plenary (2): Canvas Common Questions

  Watch if you want to Learn more about:

  • Speedgrader, gradebook, quizzes, student groups, etc.
• Plenary (3): Canvas Plugins

  Watch if you want to Learn more about:

  • Approved third party tools, requesting a new tool, etc.
• Plenary (4): Student-to-Student Interaction in Canvas

  Watch if you want to Learn more about:

  • Student engagement tools, group sets, discussions, pages, etc.
• Plenary (5): Canvas Analytics

  Watch if you want to Learn more about:

  • Course trends, student interaction data, quiz statistics, bulk message, etc.