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Join us for the LTDC Virtual Showcase!
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The LTDC Virtual Showcase is a
free
two-day event with educational sessions from instructors and professional staff from across the University of Wisconsin System. This year, the event will be held virtually on Tuesday April 2
nd
and Wednesday April 3
rd
, with this year’s theme being Building the New: Innovate, Integrate, Motivate
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This year’s sessions cover a number of engaging topics, including: teaching & learning, the Canvas digital learning environment, technology and other resources, student engagement, library and digital media, and open educational resources.
The Showcase features two keynote presentations and numerous sessions, allowing you the freedom to attend the sessions that interest you most. The best part is, everything is done virtually so you can attend right from your desk, with zero expense! Another perk? All sessions are recorded, so if two sessions you want to attend are happening simultaneously, you can watch one live and review the other session at a later date.
The Showcase features two morning kick-off keynote presentations, and we’ve got some great speakers this year! The first is Malcolm Brown, the Director of Learning Initiatives at EDUCAUSE, who will be speaking about the next generation of digital learning environments. The second is Kona Jones, an educational technology enthusiast who champions designing engaging online offerings.
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Spring Canvas Training schedule
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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, 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
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.
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Innovations in Learning professional development schedule - Spring 2019
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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 for the month of March:
Kaltura
Friday, March 15th | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Wyllie D103 (The Learning Technology Lab)
Kaltura is Parkside's media sharing software! Kaltura gives faculty, staff, and students the ability to record their own videos and share them either by embedding them into a course in D2L or Canvas, or sending out a sharable link! This event will walk through how to use Kaltura and will go over best practices for recording videos.
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D2L Sunset - What You Need to Know
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As the UW System migrates from D2L to Canvas, we will be sunsetting D2L. This means that as of June 2019, we will no longer offer any courses through D2L. We will have access to the system through June of 2020, but it is strongly recommended that all students, faculty, and instructional staff that use D2L work on saving copies of their content before January 2020.
Here is a timeline of events:
- May 2019: All quizzes need to have been requested to be moved into Canvas from D2L. After May, the Innovations team will no longer be able to facilitate the transfer of quizzes.
- June 2019: All courses will be taught in Canvas. There will no longer be any courses taught through D2L.
- January 2020: All D2L content will need to be exported, saved, and imported into Canvas sandboxes by January 2020.
- June 2020: All access to D2L will be removed. Faculty, staff, students, and LMS administrators will permanently lose all access to D2L.
To view the full webpage and browse the D2L Sunset Checklist,
click here
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Turnitin Integration - Glitches Unresolved
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We’ve been in contact with both Canvas and Turnitin support to figure out what has been happening with the integration. At the beginning of the semester it seemed like the communication between Canvas and Turnitin stopped. Papers stopped being submitted to Turnitin and other strange glitches occurred. We have been back and forth between the UW System, Canvas, and Turnitin to find the source of the problem. Not only is this issue affecting Parkside, but it is also affecting the entire UW System and multiple other institutions in the country.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do on our end to fix this issue. Turnitin support has been working closely with Canvas, we expect that this will be resolved soon. As of now, the integration is not working as it should and it is likely you will continue to encounter errors when submitting papers to Turnitin.
We will be sending out updates when we receive more information.
Note: This issue also affects D2L, so it is an issue with Turnitin entirely, not solely Canvas.
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Canvas Tier 1 Support available 24/7
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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.
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