Canvas Tips to Simply & Enhance Course Setup
Join the COLRS staff to review some of the most frequently performed tasks as you prepare your Canvas site for the fall semester.
We'll review:
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CidiLabs DesignPlus for Canvas
With DesignPLUS, you can stylize the appearance and customize the content of Canvas pages, assignments, the course syllabus, discussion descriptions, and quiz descriptions.
Check out Home Page Transformations with Design Plus and the Design Plus Gallery for inspiration.
In this session, you will learn how to:
Digital Accessibility
Digital accessibility is a broad subset of an already broad area. The CDC surveyed Americans in 2018 and found that "One in 4 U.S. adults – 61 million Americans – have a disability that impacts major life activities." These disabilities can be permanent, temporary, or circumstantial, and fall into six main types: mobility, cognition, hearing, vision, independent living, and self-care.
Cidilabs DesignPLUS for Canvas
Cidilabs DesignPLUS
With DesignPLUS, you can stylize the appearance and customize the content of Canvas pages, assignments, the course syllabus, discussion descriptions, and quiz descriptions.
Check out Home Page Transformations with Design Plus and the Design Plus Gallery for inspiration.
In this session, you will learn how to:
Enhance Canvas Discussions with Harmonize
Increase student engagement in online discussions with the Harmonize tool.
HyFlex Teaching Workshop
The HyFlex (hybrid flexible) learning model is both a teaching format that bridges and blends the physical and digital classrooms and the pedagogy that informs the design of HyFlex learning. This session will cover:
- Pedagogical overview of HyFlex
- Instructional strategies
- Planning a HyFlex course session
The workshop will be held on Wednesday, July 20th at 11:00 am.
Pedagogy, Andragogy, & Heutagogy
Pedagogy is the teaching of children, or dependent personalities. Andragogy is the facilitation learning for adults, who are self-directed learners. Heutagogy is the management of learning for self-managed learners. Below is a table comparing Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Heutagogy, recreated in an accessible format from Teach Thought.
Foundations of Course Design
COLRS Office Hours
During office hours, COLRS staff are available to assist UIS instructors with teaching strategies, technologies, accessibility, and multimedia.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://go.uis.edu/colrszoom
Meeting ID: 816 9660 5177
Password: 732122
Digital Accessibility Remediation
Accessible Materials are Key
Research shows that by adopting inclusive design practices, like accessibility, we enhance the user experience for all students and foster a culture of diversity and inclusion.