[ARCHIVED] [ARCHIVED] Training for Faculty/Adjuncts

[kate_hill]

I am the Canvas Admin/Online Learning Director/Instructional Designer at a small, private college. We have just adopted Canvas and faculty/adjuncts love it! What I need now is training over the summer for my faculty/staff. We don't necessarily want to pay big bucks for the pre-packaged solutions, and I can do the training on my own. What I would like to know is what kinds of ideas/strategies have you implemented to train your instructors?

[thomast]

Renee,

Can you also send me the link to the Canvas Challenge.

Thank you!

[silverberg]

Would you send me a link too?

[brennanj]

Hi  @Renee_Carney  ! Can you give me access to this as well? Thanks!

-Janel

[jcottin]

Renee Carney, could you please send me a link to the "Canvas Challenge" and any other training/resource that would help instructors learn/utilize Canvas.

[scottdennis]

Hi Julianne,

Instructure has discontinued support for the Canvas Challenge course but you can still download an archived copy of the basic challenge in the Canvas Challenge Leaders course, which you will find linked to under "Creative Training Ideas" in the Canvas Engagement Strategies group here: Canvas Rollout, Training, and Adoption Strategies (Collaboration)

[jcottin]

Thank you. Julie

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:52 AM, scottd@instructure.com <

[pdarlingfacio]

I would love to see this challenge too. If you are able to provide the link that would be great.

Thanks!

[tlandry]

I have logged in but it says I don't have access to the Canvas Challenge course. Could you add it to our instance? hersheyk12.instructure.com

[Renee_Carney]

Hi Traci

You will not be able to login to the course.  You will need to download the file for the Challenge Course, then login to your Canvas instance and create a new course.  Then in your new course click on settings and import content.  Import the course file and you're good to go!

[DPadden]

Renee,

I'd love a copy of the challenges course.

Thanks!

Deb Padden

[Renee_Carney]

You can download it here
Dropbox - canvas-challenge-basic-export.imscc 

[DPadden]

Thanks!!!

[tom_gibbons]

Dropbox, FTW! (Totally absconding with a copy!)

[olson_j]

Thanks for the excellent tip!  Though I've used BB for years, many years, I am getting a lot of past learning interfering with new learning (of canvas).  I just wish someone would do it for me. But I will learn, with help available here and elsewhere.

[john_morris]

Deactivated user​, I work at an institution that is in the midst of adopting Canvas from Blackboard. The bias of my colleagues for not learning Canvas because, "that's not how we did it in Blackboard" is incredible. Having experience with Bb prior to coming to Canvas definitely makes the learning curve steeper! I was an "instructor" participant in the campus-wide investigation to switch and was "on the fence" about whether the functionality was really worthwhile for the inevitable disruption and organizational resistance. Participating in the Canvas Community has been a second parallel learning curve as well -- I didn't know I needed to know about Jive! But the combination of the two -- Canvas with its online, open-source oriented Community -- have made me a complete convert. Now, I see the light... but it was a long and grueling slog!

[kmeeusen]

Yep, John, my office partner and I have decided that if forced to migrate one more time and we're retiring!:smileyconfused:

During the first year in Canvas, we got so sick and tired of hearing, "that isn't the way I did it before", or "It wasn't like that in Angel", or "Why can't Canvas do it like Angel does". Our training had a strong focus on faculty adapting their workflow to the new LMS - that helped. Our students immediately shared their enthusiasm and preference for the new LMS - and that helped, and now three years later we never hear those things anymore - and that really helps!

However, I am personally not doing another LMS migration again - not ever! I've done four and that's my limit. "Canvas for Life" is my new motto!

[olson_j]

I trust I will acquire your same enthusiasm.....

[DaleDrees]

Has a nice ring, Canvas For Life!

[ibagdasa]

Hi Renee Carney,

Could you please email me a public link to the Canvas Challenge? Thank you.

[tfreeman]

During our transition Canvas was very, very new.  I initiated a give it to them in what ever way they might want it approach and we offered:

• Online resources available for instructors to click at what they wanted to learn about when ever and where ever they wanted to
• Phone and Email Support
• Walk-In hours staffed at a central location and equipped for anyone to just come over and get help
• A traveling "We're moving to Canvas" series we presented at each Academic Department's faculty staff meeting
• Face-to-face workshops with each one running twice a week with the suggested beginning series as:
  • Introduction to Canvas (navigation, settings, and just a basic overview of Pages, Modules, Files, Assignments, and Grades)
  • Then in any order Assignments and Grades in Canvas and Pages and Modules in Canvas
• One web site called Canvas One Stop, where any of the stuff above could be accessed, ie, sign up for a workshop, contact support, online tutorials and guides, walk-in hours and location, etc.
• And an "over communication" approach to informing the campus community of all things Canvas in every way we could

You can get at much of this stuff at a page I set up called Canvas One Stop, although we no longer have the aggressive intro to Canvas workshop series running at such a heavy pace. 

I like both the online course of Kona's above and the idea of one as well.

[Renee_Carney]

tfreeman​

May I please add your Canvas One Stop link to our Canvas Resources​ in Canvas Training Courses​?

[tfreeman]

Yes, certainly.  Although the workshops and such completely local, as is the "contact support" links.  But the online help resources are in a public course open to all.

[canvas_admin]

We provided both one-on-one training and we created a "Professor-TA Training" course. In that course, we embedded relevant videos from the Canvas Guides and put them in Modules. Each Module was labeled as a question such as "How do I create a Group?" and all relevant instructor videos were embedded there. The downside to the course is we do not have a way to track who is actually watching which videos unless we created some sort of quizzing or feedback mechanism within the course. However, our professors are too busy (they're always "too busy") for such things and there's nothing in their contract to force them to learn Canvas for professional development.

[r_v_jones]

We run 5 face to face courses (details below) we moved to the idea of showing what is possible with the tool rather than the click here, click here to do “X” When we launched here in Birmingham we had over 600 people through these courses in the first few weeks. Faculty teams also ran bespoke sessions we supported centrally.

CAN01 – Introduction to Canvas  - A general introduction to Canvas and the suite of initial training courses developed by the eLearning Team. Includes orientation to general principles of Canvas, and brief overview of core tools and features.

• General Introduction to the initial suite of five courses
• Brief overview of Canvas principles (terminology, openness, mobile)
• User roles in Canvas
• Basic orientation to Canvas interface
• Overview of core Canvas tools

CAN02 – Content management and different

An introduction to the different ways in which content can be created and delivered using Canvas.

• Overview of three main topic areas
• Overview of Pages (Principles, Editor and screen options, Types of content)
• Overview of Files
• Overview of Modules
• Building structure and sequence
• Course Home Page

CAN03 Canvas: communication tools - An introduction to the features of Canvas that can facilitate communication and dialogue with students.

• Announcements (Making / Editing)
• Discussions (Starting a discussion
• Discussion settings
• Conversations
• The conversations environment
• Create a new message
• Chat Tool

CAN04 creating and managing assignments - This course provides an overview of the facilities within Canvas for the creation and processing of assignments.

• Overview of the canvas assignment tool
• Creation process for assignments
• Managing assignments via Gradebook tool
• Creation and use of Rubrics
• Marking options available both online and offline
• Marking using the SpeedGrader
• Mechanisms of providing feedback to students
• Using Turnitin to promote academic integrity

CAN05 - computer-marked assessments - An introduction to the use of self-assessment quizzes and surveys in Canvas.

• Types of quiz (graded, practice, survey)
• Quiz settings
• Question types
• Embedding images and course content within quizzes
• Using question groups to present different questions on each attempt
• Feedback options
• Question banks
• Viewing student responses
• Allowing extra time or attempts for individual students
• Quiz statistics

In addition to the above we run drop in sessions or bespoke courses for Course Administration staff which covers how you can use Canvas tools to administer assignments, enrolments etc

Hope this helps

[SPARROWR]

If it helps: our school is in the middle of transitioning to Canvas, and we are in the process of training our faculty right now. We developed an in-person training workshop that lasts 2 hours and covers the basics of Canvas. Our main goal was to provide faculty with the opportunity to work with realistic data and scenarios without affecting actual student data. I've recorded a screencast to show you an overview of what we did: http://flash.seminolestate.edu/vod/sparrowr/CanvasTraining_-_20150507_104553_33.html

In addition, we created the course shells, and all practice user accounts with the CSV import feature. We did have to manually go in ourselves, though, and submit on behalf of the practice students for each of the practice sites. Thankfully by using the Beta site for our workshops, we don't have to re-submit each week for the students (details on that are included in the video).

Good luck with your program!

[Renee_Carney]

Greetings SPARROWR​

May I add your video link to our Canvas Resources​ in Canvas Training Courses​

[john_morris]

I'll take a small risk here by sharing what I've done (an Instructor for Instructors). After the university launched Canvas in January for "early adopters" they accompanied with standard "dog and pony" shows about features and functions. This is useful mostly for support-types who often get questions like "how do I do X?" Instructors, who will be forced to become incompetent in a new system after being expert in the old ways, fret about looking bad in front of students. We want a guide that will hold our hand through the most likely scenarios -- we don't know what questions to ask -- and will take as little time as possible. Even though Canvas can be tremendously flexible and powerful, we will tolerate a single "right way" if it accelerates our path to competence.

I conducted a workshop for about 50 of our faculty with a presentation using these slides followed by a trip to the computer lab where a dozen or so Instructors got their first class setup in Canvas. [Sharing these slides is the "risky" part because they will reveal my naivette to peers here in Jive!] Vendor style training is often not attended well because Instructors are more worried about getting started than what they will eventually be able to do. My advice is to keep your initial training very simple and short. Here's a brief outline of the presentation:

1. Transfer your existing Blackboard course to Canvas
2. Setup or modify your course
   • Syllabus
   • Assignments and Modules
   • Navigation and Communication
   • Publish the Course
3. Use Online Rubrics
4. Use the Gradebook
5. Speedgrader
6. Getting You Started! (this was when we went into the computer lab)

[scottdennis]

"keep your initial training very simple and short." - great advice John.

Having now informally trained my peers, then been an on-campus eLearning person, then transitioned to the corporate world where I spent my first year at Instructure managing our client training and doing a lot of the training myself I know that each role has differing challenges and opportunities.  Being a corporate trainer was, for me, the hardest.  We often have to swoop in for just one day or a half a day and some people in the audience want to know everything, while others just want the first door opened and you just don't have time to cater to both.  It is a tough gig.

[Renee_Carney]

 @john_morris ​

May I share your slides link on the Canvas Training Courses​ on the new Canvas Resources​ page?

[G_Petruzella]

Hi  @kate_hill ​ - you've got so many awesome resources from the community already! But here are a couple more you're welcome to use - they're two different courses we've used with our faculty here.

Online Teaching Certification (OTC) - an 8-week intensive course Academic Technology runs annually for faculty looking to learn about online teaching in Canvas.

Online Canvas Crash Course (OC3)​ [under construction!] - a self-paced 4-Module intro to faculty who need to get a blended course up and running on a tight timeline.

[scottdennis]

 @kate_hill ​ has had so many great resources offered to her, and so have the rest of us!

 @Renee_Carney ​

[Renee_Carney]

 @G_Petruzella ​

May I share your course links on the Canvas Training Courses​ page on Canvas Resources​?

[G_Petruzella]

 @Renee_Carney certainly!

[Renee_Carney]

Thank you!  You'll see your contribution added in a matter of minutes!

[anthonem]

 @G_Petruzella ​ - thanks for sharing your courses! We're looking to do something very similar online for adjuncts, focusing on how to build community and maintain instructor presence online

[MG458913]

Hi  @G_Petruzella ​

Is it possible to get an import of the OTC course?

Marci

[G_Petruzella]

Hi Marci -

Sure thing! It may be easiest to find it in Canvas Commons, by searching for OTC. Let me know if it'd be easier for you to have the *.imscc, though, and I'll be happy to make that available.

[thomast]

Hi Gerol,

Yes, it would be helpful to have access to the *.imscc

Thank you!

[G_Petruzella]

Hi  @thomast ​ (or Deactivated user​?)​ -

Sure - here's a link​ to the OTC *.imscc package I put up on my Google Drive. Enjoy!

[MG458913]

Gerol,

It would be helpful to have the .imsc.  I see the link you gave to Treva.  It may be that it is Friday, but I can't figure out how to get it off your google drive to the import Content.