Canvas

Canvas Faculty Training

We have several avenues of Canvas training available to you! Some training avenues are provided by Instructure Canvas experts. Other trainings will be held internally, featuring some external experts as well. Please review all avenues below.

Canvas-Led Webinars

There will be 4 webinars held throughout 2023. These webinars will be hosted by Instructure Canvas experts. They are live webinars, and they will be recorded. Below is the schedule for the live webinars:

Webinar	Date/Time	Recording	Resource Documents
Webinar # 1	April 4th @ 10 am	April 4th Recording	Notification Preferences, Dashboard, Calendar, and Inbox
Webinar # 2	August 1st @ 10 am	[Recording Placeholder]	[Document Placeholder]
Webinar # 3	August 14th – 18th (Specific date and time depends on faculty workshop schedule)	[Recording Placeholder]	[Document Placeholder]
Webinar # 4	First week of December	[Recording Placeholder]	[Document Placeholder]

Canvas Open-Office Hours

Need help building your Canvas courses? Schedule a one-on-one meeting with Distance Learning Coordinator, Haley Kinder, using this link: Schedule a Canvas One-on-One.

Canvas Training Services Portal

Within Canvas (In the Help navigation tab) lives the Training Services Portal. This portal offers you asynchronous training courses that you can enroll in and complete on your own time. Many of the trainings offer a badge at the completion of the content. To access the Training Services Portal, follow the steps outlined in this article: How to Access the Training Services Portal

This Canvas Community post further explains how to access the Training Services Portal and enrolling in courses.

Internal Trainings

Internal trainings will be held throughout the year. Some will be scheduled on an as-need basis and others will be held during faculty workshop weeks to help prepare you for upcoming semesters. Below is an ongoing list of internal trainings with their recordings if applicable:

Date	Modality	Topic	Presenter	Recording
April 20th	Virtual	Content Creation	Kim McCroskey, UTC	Canvas Training: Content Creation
April 21st	Virtual	Assignments	Kim McCroskey, UTC	Canvas Training: Assignments
April 21st	Virtual	Quizzes	Kim McCroskey, UTC	Canvas Training: Quizzes
May 8th & 9th	In-Person/One-on-One	Ad Hoc	Haley Kinder	[Recording Placeholder]

Internal Canvas Mini-Series

We want to keep Canvas at the forefront of everyone’s minds, so a virtual mini-series will be held between webinars and live trainings. These will be 20–30-minute virtual sessions that will cover an array of canvas topics. There may be some external Canvas experts included in some of the trainings. Below is a tentative schedule for the mini-series:

Date/Time	Topic	Meeting Link
June 7th @ 10 am	About the mini-series: Overview and topics	About the mini-series: Overview and topics
June 14th @ 10 am	Grading assignments with SpeedGrader	Grading assignments with SpeedGrader
June 21st @ 10 am	Overview of Classic Quizzes	Overview of Classic Quizzes
June 28th @ 10 am	Using the Gradebook	Using the Gradebook
July 5th @ 10 am	Accessibility Tools within Canvas	Accessibility Tools within Canvas
July 12th @ 10 am	Creating Student Groups	Creating Student Groups
July 19th @ 10 am	Using New Analytics to Communicate with Students	Using New Analytics to Communicate with Students
July 26th @ 10am	Prepping For Fall – Series wrap-up	Series wrap-up

*Reach out to Haley Kinder, hkinder@utsouthern.edu, with any questions about Canvas training.