UPCOMING ARTS EVENTS

• Feb 26

  Grading on Canvas: SpeedGrader and Gradebook – February 26, 2019 Grade quickly and efficiently using the internal Canvas tools. SpeedGrader helps you grade assignments and quizzes quickly and its annotation options help you provide feedback effectively. Gradebook automatically manages grades and gives you a summary view of student progress in your course. This intensive hour long course, we will learn how to best navigate these features. With Canvas tools, grading no longer has to be a chore. Read more...
• Feb 28

  CLAS Workshop – February 28, 2019 CLAS encourages self-directed engagement with online content while facilitating peer learning and collaboration at the same. Besides providing annotation and collaboration, CLAS is also a well-equipped video application with features designed specifically to support education - most notably, to provide flexible and customizable access control of both videos and annotations/comments. In this hands-on workshop, discover the possibilities and learn how to set-up and manage your own CLAS site. Read more...
• Mar 5

  Canvas Scripts and Hacks – March 5, 2019 From Canvas customization to workarounds, this workshop will show how Arts ISIT can help you get more out of Canvas. We will be discussing how to set up Journals on Canvas with smart grading options and how Arts ISIT scripts can provide you with downloads of Canvas Discussions, list of Student Groups and self signup sheets. We will also show how Arts ISIT can customize Canvas Peer Review to allow feature such as grading of peer feedback and pushing through peer assessment grades to the Gradebook. Come learn how Arts ISIT can make Canvas work better for you. Read more...
• Mar 7

  Top Hat Workshop – March 7, 2019 Top Hat is a web based classroom response system that offers instructors the flexibility to customize their lecture experience to suit students' needs and bring out the best of their teaching styles. This tool provides the opportunity for interactive content, increasing students' engagement with the course. For example, instructors can enhance their slides through annotations, ask various types of questions that goes beyond multiple choice, facilitate discussion in a large classroom, and manage class participation seamlessly. Read more...