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Welcome to the first COLRS Catch up of the academic year! Periodically, we will send out these emails to provide reminders or updates, share materials you may have missed, and highlight some of the amazing work our faculty is doing in their online classes.
Please take special note of the information about Turnitin in the Canvas Catch Up section. We will be offering trainings, but the information in this email should help you get started.
Online Course Quality Rubric: Domain 2 Workshop
As part of our launch of our new UIS Online Course Quality Rubric, COLRS staff is focusing our teaching tip and workshop series this academic year on the six domains of the rubric, offering ideas and strategies to help instructors meet the essential standards.
The first workshop will focus on Domain 2: Technologies and Tools. Join us for this workshop, where we will explain what Domain 2 is all about, share strategies for how to meet the standard, and connect this domain to joyful teaching practices.
We hope to see you there!
Turnitin Workshop: Clarity Assignments
COLRS will host an informative session on Turnitin from noon to 1 p.m. on Sept. 3 on Zoom.
Turnitin Workshop: Standard Assignments
As part of our move to Turnitin as the plagiarism and AI detection software, COLRS staff is offering a series of trainings to get you started. In this first workshop, we will go over how to add Turnitin to your usual Canvas assignments as well as how to configure Turnitin settings to get the results you're most interested in seeing. This workshop will be recorded in case you are not able to attend.
We hope to see you there!
Canvas Integrations
Canvas integrations refer to tools that you can access directly within the Canvas LMS. These tools can be used for teaching and learning, though their use is not required.
Getting Started in Canvas
Canvas is a web-based course management learning system that UIS instructors can use to organize course content. Canvas allows instructors and students 24/7 access to their courses.
Access to Canvas Courses
How do instructors find Canvas courses for previous semesters?
Canvas course sites are not deleted. After the end of each term, courses go into a read-only archived state for instructors. This maintains a record of the course as it was taught, which is helpful for incompletes and grade challenges. See the Canvas guide on how to view all your courses.
Faculty, see key information on Canvas access, upcoming workshops, backup procedures, COLRS support and regular and substantive interaction requirements.
Canvas Basics Workshop
New to Canvas? Need a refresher? Join COLRS staff on Aug. 19 as they go over how to use Canvas as an instructor.
Register for Illinois Online Higher Education Symposium
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is proud to host the third annual Illinois Online Higher Education Symposium, a statewide initiative dedicated to fostering collaboration, sharing innovative prac