Canvas Training for Faculty

Canvas Conversations is a fully asynchronous course organized into three modules that leverage the Canvas Training Services Portal.

Course Topics

• Module 1: Higher Education: First Day Ready learning path
• Module 2: Course Design and Accessibility learning path
• Module 3: Live Webinars through the Canvas Training Services Portal

Enroll In the Canvas Conversations Course

In addition to enrolling in the Canvas Conversations course, faculty should request a Canvas Sandbox. A Sandbox is a fully-functioning, production-level Canvas environment set up as non-credit course with no students. Faculty are able to build, design, and experiment with the instructor role in their Canvas Sandbox.

Upon successful completion of the course modules in Canvas Conversations, participants may be eligible to receive a training stipend. For more information, reference the 11/16/22 communication by the Office of Provost.

Growing with Canvas is a cohort-style facilitated training designed for full-time faculty. Faculty participants will move through the five modules with peers under the guidance of facilitators. Each module will engage faculty participants in learning, invite them to share in the discussion, check their knowledge with a quiz, and challenge them to complete practical assignments in a companion Canvas shell.

The Growing with Canvas training will have official start and end dates. While the facilitator will engage the cohort via announcements and presence in discussion boards according to the pacing guide, faculty participants are able to work through the training at their own pace within the start and end dates. The total time expected to complete the Growing with Canvas training is 10-15 hours.

Course Topics

• Module 0: Training Orientation
• Module 1: Canvas Navigation and Communication Tools
• Module 2: Course Customization and Design
• Module 3: Pages, Discussions, Assignments, and Quizzes
• Module 4: Course Settings, Gradebook, and SpeedGrader
• Module 5: Groups, Collaborations, and Canvas Commons
• Module 6: Training Summary

Register for a cohort

• Cohort 1: February 6 – March 17 (5 weeks)
• Cohort 2: March 13 – April 21 (5 weeks)
• Cohort 3: May 15 – June 2 (3 weeks)
• Cohort 4: June 5 – July 7 (5 weeks)
• Cohort 5: July 10 – August 11 (5 weeks)

Upon successful completion of the Growing with Canvas course, participants may be eligible to receive a training stipend. For more information, reference the 11/16/22 communication by the Office of Provost.

Growing with Canvas for Staff and Part-Time Faculty is an asynchronous training designed for staff and part-time faculty. Participants will move through the five modules at their own pace. Each module will engage participants in learning, invite them to share in the discussion, check their knowledge with a quiz, and challenge them to complete practical assignments in their sandbox.

The Growing with Canvas for Staff and Part-Time Faculty training will not have an official start nor end date. The course will be monitored by the Teaching and Learning Instructional Design Team. The TLC team will monitor the discussion board. The total time expected to complete the Growing with Canvas for Staff and Part-Time Faculty training is 5-10 hours.

These workshops will be held via Zoom. Please register by clicking the title. You will receive a reminder email with the Zoom link prior to the workshop.

Preparing a Course for Migration to Canvas

This is a step-by-step workshop to get you well on the way to preparing your Blackboard Learn course for K16 or Self Migration. We will also cover numerous Canvas resources at NAU.

Register for a “Preparing a Course for Migration” workshop:

• Preparing for Migration | Friday, March 10 |9:00 – 10:00 am
• Preparing for Migration | Monday, March 27 | 2:00 – 3:00 pm
• Preparing for Migration | Wednesday, March 29 | 9:00 – 10:00 am

How to Migrate your Blackboard Course to Canvas

This workshop is on step-by-step migration and post-migration cleanup.

NOTE: A Canvas development shell is a prerequisite for the Migrate to Canvas workshop. How to request a course development shell.

Register for a “Migrate to Canvas” workshops:

• Migrate to Canvas | Tuesday, March 21 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm
• Migrate to Canvas | Thursday, March 23 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
• Migrate to Canvas | Friday, March 24 | 1:30 – 2:30 pm
• Migrate to Canvas | Friday, March 30 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Additional dates will be announced and we will be providing recordings of the workshop soon.

Visit the Academic Affairs LMS Transition webpage