Webinar: Streamline Your Course for Canvas

This week's TeachT@lk Webinar focused on a challenge that many of our faculty are focused on this summer. Change! As ASU begins to convert BlackBoard courses to Canvas, there are many opportunities to improve all our courses in ways to benefit both faculty and students. Most materials CAN be moved into Canvas, but the question is SHOULD you move all your materials?

Peter van Leusen, from EdPlus, talked about strategies to determine whether materials in your Blackboard course were valuable and important enough to import to Canvas. He suggested spending time looking at course evaluations, talking with TAs and your instructional designers to determine if content should be kept, modified or "dumped" before moving to Canvas.

Jason Neenos, from UTO, then went over tips regarding file structure in BlackBoard and how it would import into Canvas. Showing that each folder became a "module". He shared a quick "Cheat Sheet" to help faculty remember how things transfer. He also covered ways to link in Canvas by embedding Google Docs, and streaming videos in MediaAmp.

Don't forget there won't be a webinar in August, and our next one is September 11 at noon!

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Resources:

• Slide Deck Link
• Video Recording Link
• Course Map Template
• Links shared:
• ASU's LMS site: https://lms.asu.edu/
• Canvas Workshops:  https://lms.asu.edu/content/canvas-workshop
• UTO Canvas Guide:  http://links.asu.edu/utocanvasintroguide 
• Articles shared:
• Faculty Focus Article: Refresh Your Course