Want to make the most of the O365 Apps available to you and your students for teaching and learning in your courses? During the Fall 2018 semester, Penn State adopted the Microsoft Office 365 Suite of Apps, providing access to all students, staff and faculty. Come learn and share best practices and examples of how these apps are being integrated into courses for better teaching and learning options. Specific examples of how the Lifelong Learning and Adult Education online graduate degree program has implemented applications like Sway, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Canvas Collaborations will be shared.
Providing meaningful, iterative feedback on student writing submissions provides the basis for a writing-intensive course. Executing this efficiently and effectively in an online course requires creative utilization of technology and software. This session explores the role self-assessment can play in providing the instructor with insight into students’ motivations, struggles, and context surrounding their submitted writing and will demonstrate that this insight provides an opportunity for more robust and meaningful instructor-student dialogue about building on strengths, working on challenges, and addressing external factors (such as time management) affecting their writing.
This session will explore the Canvas Teacher app and its features to learn how to facilitate a course on a mobile device. Discover how to improve communication, teach more efficiently, and grade more effectively with SpeedGrader on a mobile device.
This session will cover the use of H5P tools to create richer interactive content, which can be embedded in Canvas; furthermore, H5P content is responsive and mobile friendly. This is a tutorial-like workshop and it allows participants to experience the free open resource richer HTML5 content creating tool. The session will start by introducing what H5P is and how instructors can use the tool in their own content (So, attendees should bring their own content for this session). Presenters will share some examples of H5P content that have been created and used in higher ed courses. This first part will be 10-15 minutes.
After the demonstration, attendees will either create and/or log into accounts with H5P.org. and then be given time to practice making their own interactive content. (Attendees will need to bring their own computers).
The Canvas Sandbox is an LMS environment that enables the Penn State community to collaboratively preview and evaluate new course tools and LMS integrations. Using the Sandbox will help improve the quality of our learning environments with better tools, and create a venue to discuss best-practices in the use of these tools across Penn State. In this presentation, we will demonstrate the Sandbox, show how to access and use the space, and highlight real-world applications.
Presenters will discuss student perceptions of Canvas utilization in resident instruction courses (face-to-face). It is imperative that educators understand student perceptions of Canvas to enhance student learning and outcomes. This data was gathered from qualitative focus groups using semi-structured interviews guided by the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) framework to spark discussion during the focus groups and for analysis. This information can then be shared with instructional designers across the university to enhance and focus faculty training sessions and be shared with Canvas support as they work to continually enhance the product.
Instructional videos are used in courses of all sizes and delivery formats and instructors often are curious: Are students watching my videos? What percentage of the videos are they watching? What can I do to increase the likelihood my students will watch the course video content? What video design and delivery practices create barriers to student learning? Come to our session to learn more about the instructional design video tips and best practices we’ve identified based on examination of Canvas and Kaltura video analytics.
Learn about 3 different library-related Canvas integrations in one session: Course and Research Guides, the Embedded Librarian role, and the Credo Instruct Modules LTI. In this session, you'll get an introduction to all of these features and ideas for how they can be used in your course to improve the information literacy skills of your students.
Are you one of the more than 400,000 Canvas users that uses the Canvas Community to find answers to your questions, and share your knowledge and expertise? Whether you are a beginner, or a community expert, you will learn tips for finding resources and sharing best practices with other educators.
Students in CRIMJ 210 created instructional scenarios to illustrate concepts of police work such as self-defense, defense of property, use of force and deadly force. As part of the group projects, students researched, wrote, acted, and filmed stories using 360-degree video. In this session, you’ll learn how Canvas and Kaltura were used together to facilitate submission of storyboard documents, draft videos, peer reviews of drafts, and the final submission of 360-degree video projects.
In a perfect world, we would all be online learning super heroes. We could be found looking to the skies while waiting for Superman to swoop in and save the day by ensuring our learning objectives are reached. We know that the truth is: At times the world of online learning can be less than ideal. That’s when it pays to be a realist like the Guardians of the Galaxy. These anti-heroes can teach us a great deal about how using video in your online classroom can lead to better student performance and even a smoother journey for the instructor. Find out what we can learn about using video in your Canvas classroom from the Guardians of the Galaxy movie franchise.
Learn more about our diverse student population and how you can maximize Canvas content and tool integration to develop expert learners. We’ll demonstrate how accessible content, assignments, and collaboration options can improve the online learning experience for everyone. We will have an activity for participants to help them identify and overcome potential barriers for students.
Feedback Studio helps students become better writers, and saves instructors time by making it easy to electronically mark and score student papers. The Similarity Report provides a detailed look at source matches from our robust databases, helping students learn to paraphrase and cite sources better. We will take a look at how Feedback Studio works in Canvas through the external tool LTI integration that provides easy access for both instructors and students.
Gamification - adding game-like elements like points and levels to a non-game environment – can increase student motivation and satisfaction in a course. Intrigued? Come learn about the basics of gamification and how to apply it to Canvas courses!
This session will help teachers better understand the many ways the Canvas Student app can improve the classroom experience for both students and teachers. During this session learn about how a student interacts with Canvas on mobile devices and explore mobile design tips to optimize a Canvas course for the best student mobile experience.
Want to assess learning or gather information in a more unique and engaging way? Enter Kaltura Interactive Video Quizzes! Learn how to use Kaltura, Penn State’s new media management and streaming service to create and share video quizzes.You’ll leave this session with a new way to engage your audience!
The Dutton e-Education Institute is known for developing courses as Open Educational Resources, which requires that content be developed outside of Canvas. The result is that students must learn and use two systems in order to read course content, complete activities, turn in assignments, take assessments, and see grades. Learning Designers from the Dutton Institute will share their experiences using the Course Content Selector, an LTI developed by the Institute’s programmers that seamlessly integrates Drupal and Canvas so that students can complete all course activities inside Canvas.
*Please note: The Course Content Selector was developed for use with Drupal, but this type of solution would work with any system that can communicate via LTI.
Innovate your teaching in Canvas by integrating Kaltura media and tools into your course . The Kaltura learning tool integration (LTI) allows students and instructors to create and share media content within Canvas. During this demonstration session, participants will learn how to add the Kaltura LTI to their course, build a media gallery to support student learning, and will explore how to update their content and assignments by adding Kaltura Media components.
Based on Steve Krug's book, Don't Make Me Think, Revisited (2014), we have created a user experience guide for learning design. At this session, we will review the guide and then show how to implement design solutions in Canvas' desktop and mobile applications for improved teaching and learning experiences.
At Penn State, every requested learning tool goes through an approval process before being turned on in Canvas. Together we will explore the steps of this process and introduce you to our new Courseware website. You will leave with an understanding of what to expect when requesting a new tool for your course, and the knowledge of how to find new tools that are already available.
In this session, you’ll hear how Canvas-based resources have helped blend online learning with hands-on benchwork in a 200-level molecular cell biology lab. The core set of materials includes a series of digital workbooks that guide student groups through class discussions and laboratory experiments. Developed in Canvas group pages, the workbooks provide space for general notetaking; protocols for each laboratory exercise; workspaces for recording and analyzing data (through tables, Excel graphs, digital photos, etc.); focus questions; and other prompts. The online lab workbooks have addressed accessibility and sustainability concerns associated with previous versions of the materials and have increased student collaboration and engagement.
During this session attendees will learn about improving and enhancing student learning through usability for an online course. When course materials are usable from the beginning, it helps maintain student motivation, reduces frustration, and decreases the amount of time being spent answering questions so that it can be spent on learning. Using Canvas can make organization and navigation easier for you and your students. This session will look at organization, consistency, accessibility, visual clarity, and readability which are all usability elements that help the way students experience your course. A great experience requires functional and usable courses.
Delve into the world of undergraduate student instruction and join us as we discuss specific course design strategies for Smeal's large-enrollment Accounting 211 course. We will discuss the learning design approaches used to create engaging content and establish course flow by both utilizing and hacking Canvas tools and functions. Specifically, we will review strategies and best practices for course management, grading and quizzes. ACCTG 211 is hybrid-delivery course with over 1000 students per semester, giving us a unique opportunity to observe and respond to the unique teaching and learning needs of our students in a very competitive and challenging course.
Enjoy a scoop of Penn State Berkey Creamery ice cream as Penn State faculty and staff present in informal mini-sessions on unique ways to use Canvas tools and features to create a better learning experience. Vote for the “coolest” presentation and the presenter with the most votes will win an iPad. Stay until the end of the session and one lucky attendee will be randomly selected to also win an iPad!
Friday March 15, 2019 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
Room 206