Upcoming Learn CanvasLIVE! Sessions this November!

Instructure is hosting two informative training sessions.  See below for more information.  Use the links to register and participate remotely.  Feel free to come to the TLC if you're interested in participating with others as well.  As always, you can contact Justin - x4331 if you have any questions.

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During the month of November, we'll be discussing the following topics -- JOIN US!!

Mobile Series: Submissions From the Student Point of View

Students and instructors who use Canvas Mobile Apps need to know how to move documents and media files from their mobile apps into Canvas for their assignment submissions. This session will address the four of the most common assignment workflows from the student's point of view so teachers can provide better instruction and assistance.

Facilitator: Allison Weiss, Instructure
Audience: Instructors, Course Designers
Level: Introductory
Sessions:
(HE) Thursday, 11/14/2013; 9:00 am MDT (Register)


Peering Inside Peer Reviews

Graded discussions and graded assignments can easily function as peer review assignments. Yay! Yet, ambiguity exists surrounding what you can and can't do with the peer review tool. Boo! These sessions will dive deeper into the peer review tool and shed some light into designing effective peer reviews in Canvas.

Facilitator: Jordan Dayton, Instructure

Audience: Instructors, Course Designers

Level: Intermediate

Sessions:
(HE) Wednesday, 11/20/2013; 9:00 am MDT (Register)

Click to learn about the coming sessions in the months ahead?

Have a topic idea? Click here to submit a suggestion.

More information is at their website:  https://help.instructure.com/entries/23180780-Join-us-for-CanvasLIVE-November-2013

Free 12-month License for Adobe Presenter

Adobe is giving away 1 year licenses to their Presenter product.  You can use Presenter to create interactive videos and embed them in Canvas or use them in your classroom.  Watch the short promo video to learn more:

Contact Justin in the Teaching and eLearning Center if you'd like to learn more!

New Release & Remember FTSE!

Hello again everyone,
It's that time again for another Canvas release.  Important to note in this Saturday's release are:

• Grade one question at a time in quizzes!
• Recording of Conferences!

Read the release notes and watch the video to learn more.

Don't forget, FTSE enrollment verification is due in Web4/Banner.  I recorded this video to explain how to use Course Analytics in your Canvas course to find the last date of attendance for your students. 

http://screencast.com/t/gvSsuUidLN (password is "elearning" without the quotes).

See the Canvas Guides on Analytics for more information about this tool. 

Personal Learning Networks

Wondering about Personal Learning Networks?

While taking a MOOC called "Becoming a Dynamic Educator" instructor Savilla Banister provided us with an article about PLNs. Kate Klingensmith's article gives a terrific overview of PLNs and their benefit.  If you only have a couple of minutes, I highly recommend watching the video on her page. She also provides this great list of resources you can use to create a PLN for your students.  If you're like me, you were probably already using some of these tools individually, but not using them in conjunction with learning.

Build Your Own PLN

If you’re interested in expanding your PLN, here’s a directory of some of the best web 2.0 tools:

Category	Value	Examples and Guides
Social Networking	Keeping up with personal, more social contacts like friends, family, and former students	Facebook, Myspace
Microblogging	Populated with educators from around the world who share best practices and resources in short bursts	Twitter, My guide to Twitter, Plurk, Utterli
Professional Profiles	Find other professionals and experts in your field	LinkedIn, Brightfuse
Wikis	Community-monitored sites that can function as websites or for group organization and projects	Wikispaces, pbwiki,wetpaint
Blogs	Great sources of information such as classroom best practices as well as personal opinions; Blogs monitor the heartbeat of new trends in education and the commenting back and forth leads to many great ideas and relationships	WordPress, (check out my ‘Blogroll’ to the right – they’re my favorites),Blogger, Typepad, Alltop – top blog headlines by subject, Technorati – a blog search engine
RSS Reader	RSS means “Real Simple Syndication” – an RSS reader is a tool that allows you to keep up with many of your favorite blogs, all in once place (see this video ‘RSS in Plain English’)	Netvibes, (My Netvibes),PageFlakes, Google Reader
Nings	Communities of people interested in similar topics, with forums and messaging	Classroom 2.0, Future of Education, Ning
Social Bookmarking	Share bookmarks with others, see what others are bookmarking; you can join groups and get email updates on new bookmarks	Diigo, Diigo Groups,Delicious
Webinars	Live, on-line presentations or conferences, with real-time chat, hosted by experts on specific topics; Great way to learn about new things and to meet new people	Classroom 2.0 Live!,EdTechTalk Live,Elluminate – host your own!, Dim Dim
Backchanneling of conferences	When there are neat (and expensive) conferences that you can’t attend, follow conversations and links about the highlights	Twitter search – use acronyms like ‘NECC’ or ‘SXSWi’

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POSTPONED! - A new release from Instructure will update the Quiz tool, the Inbox, and Group assignments!

Hello everyone,
Canvas postponed this release.  They are looking at customer feedback and making some changes to how the new Inbox works and how regarding will work.  Please read the comments to this post for more information.
Justin

A New Release this Saturday

In Quizzes, you'll now have the ability to regrade a quiz if you find a question is incorrect.  This allows you to put in the correct answer and decide if you want student grades updated for those students that have already taken the quiz.

The Inbox will also see a light refresh.  Filtering by course will now be easier with a drop-down menu, you'll be able to forward a message, and add a subject.  Not to worry, this is an opt-in change.  Click the question mark in the Inbox if you're interested in seeing it.

This week's release notes has more information or you can watch the video below.

09.14.13 - New Feature Screencast from Instructure on Vimeo.