Cougar Canvas Workshop- Home

Cougar Canvas Workshop is a regular (sometimes weekly) opportunity for BYU teachers and TAs to get tips, coaching, and the most current information on teaching with Canvas LMS in BYU on-campus classes. We meet in a BYU Lee Library computer lab, and typically share the workshop live on Zoom - with recordings often available afterward.

Stay connected with Cougar Canvas Workshop: Receive announcements, and see CCW events on your Canvas Calendar and click on the join button below - You'll be come a 'student' in this course and get access to ALL of the stuff!

Join Cougar Canvas Workshop!

(You can select the 'Drop this Course' button on the CCW Homepage if you want to end your enrollment.)

Note: BYU Online instructors are welcome to participate in CCW, but should keep in mind that this offering is geared towards classroom teachers and may omit or conflict with expecatations for BYU Online faculty. BYU Online teachers participating in Cougar Canvas workshop should make sure they have accessed all current training and resources from BYU Online administration.

Upcoming Workshops

These are the workshops and topics scheduled for the weeks ahead.

All workshops will be held in The Lee Libary Second Floor (HBLL 2233) and shared on Zoom unless otherwise noted.

Canvas Workshop Live Zoom Link (Link is only active during scheduled workshop times.)

Friday June 27: Top Ten Tips for Teachers

Where: HBLL 2234, or on Zoom: https://byu.zoom.us/j/92877438713

Agenda:

10:00 a.m. Announcements & Canvas Updates
10:10 a.m. Presentation / Topic of the Day:
Top Ten Tips for Teachers
Learn what habits and practices students in Canvas courses love most.

Recent Workshops

These workshops have already taken place- Descriptions, recording links and resources are posted below

Friday May 16: Intro to Outcomes

This Friday's workshop will be RECORDED ONLY - No live workshop this week, so that Quin can attend his son's graduation.

TEMPORARY LOCATION for this week: HBLL 2234

Agenda:

Friday April 25: Spring Cleaning and SURPRISE New Feature!

View workshop recording

This week's Cougar Canvas Workshop brings you a new feature, and information on it is being offered as a "Thank You" for Canvas users who are participating in Cougar Canvas Workshop. (A recording will be posted on Monday, so you can get the info. then too.)

Agenda:

3:00 Announcements & Canvas Updates
3:05 Presentation / Topic of the Day:
SURPRISE new feature!!
... and Canvsa Course Spring Cleaning
- Wrapping-up semester / school year courses
- After-course housekeeping
  - Students with incompletes
  - Customizing course close dates
  - Course forced closure
- Preparing for Spring Term
- Copying content from course to course
  - Assignment date gotcha / How it applies to Blueprints
- Upcoming course setup
  - Grade scheme / Gradebook Settings and Policies
  - Cross-listing
3:40 Open office hours: Q&A, coaching and work time

Friday April 18

Agenda:

Presentation: All About GRADES!
Other Canvas updates and news

View recording of webcast

Friday April 4

Recording of Cougar Canvas workshop from Friday April 4 (Khanmigo Teacher Tools)

Agenda:

3:00- Presentation / Topic of the day (This week: Khanmigo Teacher Tools | More information on KTT)
3:30- Questions & help / work time

Friday March 14

Learn about Lucid in Canvas!

Recording of Cougar Canvas Workshop from Friday March 14 (Lucid)

Agenda:

2:30- Questions & help / work time
3:00- Presentation / Topic of the day (This week: Lucid)
Connect to the Lucid Demo Page
3:30- More Questions & help / work time

Friday March 7

Friday March 7- New Canvas Features / Intro to New Quizzes
HBLL Room 2233 (Schedule below)

Learn about some new options that are being made available in Canvas this week. Also, New Quizzes will soon be made available in most courses by default ( you won't have to enable it to use it), but ... should you use New Quizzes? We'll give you information to make the best decision for which quiz tools to use. You can join on Zoom, or in-person in the Lee Library, second floor- It's a computer lab, so you don't even need to bring a laptop to sign-in and work in Canvas with us.

Agenda:

2:30- Questions & help / work time
3:00- Presentation / Topic of the day (This week: New Features / Intro to New Quizzes)
3:30- More Questions & help / work time

View recording from March 7