TAMU Canvas Training Playlists

The Office of Academic Innovation (AI) has organized their video resources into playlists to target your course design and delivery needs.

TAMU Canvas Training

The Office of Academic Innovation (AI) offers weekly online training and support sessions to help build your Canvas skills, answer burning questions, and provide hands on support.

Step Into Canvas Training

These four training videos have been designed to help you get up and going using the Canvas LMS to deliver course content and facilitate student engagement, whether instruction is face-to-face, hybrid or online. Slides for steps 1-3 are available for download from the video channel. If you would like to attend the live training sessions, view the schedule and RSVP online.

STEP 1: Building and Organizing Your Course in Canvas

Learn how to navigate, add pages to present course content, use the tools available through the Rich Content Editor and understand how to utilize Modules to effectively sequence course content.

STEP 2: Course Assessment & Engagement in Canvas

Identify best practices for using communication tools, building assessments, as well as how to create assignments and quizzes in Canvas.

STEP 3: Grading in Canvas

Learn how to work in Canvas Gradebook as well as how to use    Assignment Groups and Weights.

STEP 4: Managing Your Canvas Course with ORCA

Learn how to merge courses and add TAs, graders, and other users to your course

How to Make Breakout Rooms Work Better

Hybrid Classroom

by Beth McMurtrie | December 10, 2020 | The Chronicle of Higher Education

“Breakout rooms: love them or hate them? Many professors use them to spark conversation and group work in online classes. But students often find them painfully awkward.…”

How to Engage Students in a Hybrid Classroom

Breakout Rooms

by Beth McMurtrie | July 9, 2020 | The Chronicle of Higher Education

“I’ve been working on a story about the growing popularity of the HyFlex model for the fall, in which professors teach simultaneously to students in their classroom and others beaming in remotely.…”

OSCQR Course Design Review

OASQR Course Design Review 3.1 Rubric screen shot
OSCQR Course Design Review – 3.1 (Online Leaning Consortium)

Need ideas? Click on a standard within the PDF for explanations and examples from https://OSCQR.suny.edu

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