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Renovate and elevate your Canvas course

In this asynchronous course, instructors will scaffold, reinforce and reimagine Canvas courses to streamline and organize content in dynamic ways. Academic Technology’s Teaching and Learning with Technologies and Services Teams constructed this course as a blueprint for elevating instructors' Canvas courses from a starter home to a dream home by providing insights, resources and peer discussion opportunities on course redesign.

In this course, participants will:

  • understand the benefit of removing unnecessary items.
  • distinguish the difference between removing and deleting items from Canvas.
  • identify areas in Canvas courses that could eliminate clutter.
  • choose which items they want to delete or remove to clean up their courses for both the instructor-facing side and the student-facing side.
  • assess course components to determine areas requiring improvement, considering both functionality and impact on students.
  • apply troubleshooting strategies to address common errors in Canvas Assignments and Gradebook, enhancing student user experience.
  • locate resources for technical and instructional design support, reducing obstacles associated with course repair.
  • utilize up-to-date and relevant subject matter information, ensuring that the course content reflects the latest research findings in their field of study.
  • seek to ensure that the course materials represent a wide range of perspectives, cultural contexts, and voices, allowing students to engage with a diverse array of ideas and experiences.

An optional digital badge will be awarded to those that complete the course requirements.

Canvas faculty workshops: Quizzes (10/27) and Peer Review (11/3)

Join Academic Technology for Workshop Fridays!

The two workshops below are open to any instructors who want to learn more about Canvas Quizzes and Peer Review in Canvas.

For more information on Canvas workshops, visit the Support and Training page on the Canvas website.

Friday, October 27: Canvas Quizzes

This workshop will cover building and managing quizzes in Canvas, including building quiz questions, setting exceptions, and managing grades.

Friday, November 3: Peer Review in Canvas

This workshop will cover different options for facilitating peer review activities within your Canvas course.

Canvas Newsletter - Issue 7: Spring 2023 is one week away

The start of Spring 2023 is approximately one week away! As a reminder, in Spring 2023, all courses were created in Canvas by default.

Not ready to move to Canvas yet? No problem. You will simply need to go to the Classdata website and log in to move your courses from the Canvas column back to the iLearn column. The deadline for selecting iLearn instead of Canvas is February 17, 2023, the add/drop deadline for Spring.

Read more on the Canvas site

Canvas Newsletter - Issue 6: Reminders for Spring 2023

Looking for your Spring 2023 courses? As a reminder, for Spring 2023, all courses were created in Canvas by default.

Not ready to move to Canvas yet? No problem. You will simply need to go to the Classdata website and log in to move your courses from the Canvas column back to the iLearn column. This video will walk you through considerations for whether to use Canvas or iLearn this coming semester.

Read more on the Canvas site

Canvas Newsletter - Issue 5: Preparing for Spring 2023

As the campus prepares for Spring 2023, we want to highlight to faculty that all spring courses will automatically be added to Canvas by default and not iLearn (unlike this fall). 

Not ready to move to Canvas yet?  No problem.  You will simply need to go to the Classdata website and log in to move your courses from the Canvas column back to the iLearn column. This video will walk you through considerations for whether to use Canvas or iLearn this coming semester.

Read more on the Canvas site

Canvas Newsletter - Issue 4: Project update and closing out the Fall semester

The campus Canvas transition has started off Fall 2022 with over 1,650 courses taught by over 580 instructors with over 18,000 students enrolled in Canvas courses. We so much appreciate the efforts of these early adopter faculty but are also looking forward toward Spring 2023 and our full move to Canvas in Fall 2023. For Spring 2023, all University courses will be added to Canvas by default. Instructors wishing to continue teaching in iLearn for this semester will need to visit https://classdata.sfsu.edu/ where they can login and shift any or all of their appointed courses back to iLearn.

Not sure if you’re ready to move yet? Check out this video to help walk through some points to consider when thinking about whether you want to use Canvas or iLearn this coming semester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJJVuB8D8dw

Read more on the Canvas site