Innovations in Learning Monthly Newsletter

February 2019

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Spring Canvas Training schedule

The Innovations in Learning team is pleased to offer Canvas trainings over the Spring 2019 semester. We will have nine dates available for training throughout the Spring semester. Training dates are as follows:

Friday, February 15th, 9:00am-11:00am
Friday, March 1st, 9:00am-11:00am
Friday, March 15th, 9:00am-11:00am
Friday, April 5th, 9:00am-11:00am
Friday, April 19th, 9:00am-11:00am
Friday, May 3rd, 9:00am-11:00am
Tuesday, May 21st, 9:00am-11:00am
Wednesday, May 22nd, 9:00am-11:00am
Thursday, May 23rd, 9:00am-11:00am

To reserve your place at a training session, please fill out the sign-up sheet today .

If you have already attended a previous Canvas training session but would like to attend an additional training, you are more than welcome to do so.

If none of the dates provided above will work for you, please email innovations@uwp.edu and we’d be happy to setup a separate training date with you.

Please remember that the entire UW System will be migrating to Canvas for the Fall 2019 semester. If you are unable to attend a Spring training, we will have numerous training sessions offered over the summer, too.

Innovations in Learning professional development schedule - Spring 2019

On top of Canvas Training, during the Spring 2019 semester the Innovations team will also be hosting a variety of events including professional development and innovations mixers! Below is a schedule of events. Please make sure you register ahead of time so we have an accurate count!

Meet the Innovations Team

Friday, February 8th | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Wyllie D103 (The Learning Technology Lab)

Come on by and meet the Innovations in Learning team! During this event the Innovations team will introduce all of our members and explain exactly what it is we do on campus and how we can help you with your instructional technology needs!

Turnitin

Friday, February 15th | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Wyllie D103 (The Learning Technology Lab)

Turnitin is a plagiarism checker that we acquired in 2018. Turnitin is integrated in both D2L and Canvas and can check online student submissions for plagiarism. This event will go over how to enable Turnitin in your courses and how to navigate the system!

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra

Friday, March 1st | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Wyllie D103 (The Learning Technology Lab)

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra is one of Parkside's online conferencing softwares. One of the best things about Ultra is that it can be integrated directly into a D2L or Canvas course! This event will go over how to integrate Ultra into your course, what it can be used for, and how to navigate the system!

Innovation Mixer

Friday, March 1st | 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Wyllie D103 (The Learning Technology Lab)

The Innovation Mixer will be the Innovation's team first event where instructors can come and mingle with fellow instructors and share what innovative things they've been doing in their courses and how they've been using D2L and Canvas.

Click here for a full schedule of our Spring 2019 professional development sessions!

Canvas Course Cards Available

Course cards for your Canvas Dashboard can be made to order from Innovations in Learning's own Steve Schlecht. Steve is a Parkside graduate with a degree in graphic design.

The Winterim break is the perfect time to request a course card so it's ready before the Spring 2019 semester begins.

If you would like a custom course card created for one or all of your courses, or if you would like to view some of the samples Steve has already created, please email Innovations@uwp.edu and we can send you a template of choices.

Please fill out the Course Card Survey to request a course card and Steve will send you designs on a first-come, first-served basis as time allows.

Closed Captioning Request Form

If you're planning on using media in your online Spring 2019 course(s), please let us know as soon as possible!

Our team is ready to help you get your media captioned and transcribed for the semester.

The earlier you get your media to us, the more cost-effective the captioning services will be.

If your media has already been captioned from a previous semester, that's great! Then you're already almost done. Please only send us Closed Captioning Request Forms for new media.

Please note: your videos will need to be in Kaltura before we can send them for captioning. Here is a document on uploading media to Kaltura .

Canvas Tier 1 Support available 24/7

Instructors, please remember that Canvas Tier 1 Support is available 24/7, 365 days a year to answer any questions you may have about the learning management system.

Our administrative rights have changed in the migration from D2L to Canvas, so a lot of what we were able to assist with in the past has been limited.

Tier 1 Support is available through the Help menu on the black navigation bar within Canvas. You have the option to chat (instant message), call, or email Tier 1 Support.

Support is also available for your students, so please direct your students to Tier 1 Support if they have any questions or need assistance.

NetTutor access for Spring 2019

NetTutor has not yet been integrated with Canvas, but students will still have access to the tutoring service through D2L.

If you have students who do not have any classes in D2L but need access to NetTutor, please let us know by filling out this form and we can enroll students manually into D2L so they have access to tutoring.

Thank you for your continued patience as we work with the vendor to create a secure login with NetTutor moving forward.

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