WA Canvas Users' Group - First Conference.

I went to the first ever WA Canvas User’s Group conference in late March in Tacoma. Recordings of the sessions are now available. Below is a selection of ones I went to, or that may be of interest to the CBC community as we transition to Canvas.  Links to all the recordings and session descriptions are at the bottom of this message.

Curious about Canvas by Alissa Sells, SBCTC.  This is a basic intro to Canvas.  The recording is almost 1:15 because there were lots of questions.  Good basic info.

Getting into the Module Mentality by Sherry-Anne McLean, Math Faculty, LWIT. Modules are central to the Canvas Paradigm, and worth considering as you move your class over. This was a good session. It covers considerations in moving your course from Angel to Cavnas.

Integrating WAMAP into Canvas by David Lippman, Math Professor, Pierce College. This is primarily of interest to Math instructors who use WAMAP, or are interested in using it with Canvas.

Canvas Analytics by Andy Duckworth, Director of eLearning, TCC. Canvas has analytics that you can access to see how students are doing in your class. You can use this info to find general problems, or to identify problems with specific students. Students can also view analytics on their own performance.

Piloting Canvas: Stories and Cool Tools by Betsey Barnett, et. al. Shoreline CC.  They “share how we are using announcements, discussions, quizzes, question banks and how students use the built in media tool as a warm up for student speeches. [They] also share … personal stories using Canvas.”

Working with Canvas and Google Docs by Peter Agras, et. al., EWU & WWU. 57 min. Part one, covers integrating Google Docs into Canvas as a tool for collaboration and peer reviewed projects. Includes embedding docs into Canvas for live updating. This part is useful for any instructor.  The second part is more technical, showing using the API to pull analytic data from Canvas. Watch the first part, for sure.

If you want to check out other sessions, here’s the full list of recordings. Some of the subjects are: Importing files (13), flipping the science classroom (22), preventing plagiarism with Turnitin integration (25), MOOCs & CCs (16) and more! The full descriptions are on the program PDF.