UPCOMING ARTS EVENTS

Arts ISIT's virtual drop-in sessions are available Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can also contact us by email (arts.helpdesk@ubc.ca) or phone (604-827-2787).

Visit our virtual drop-in

*Available to Arts faculty and staff only.

• Jun 4

  (WEBINAR) Canvas Essentials – June 4, 2020 This introductory online webinar will prepare you to work with all the basics in Canvas. In this hour long intensive session, we will get an overview of course instruction in Canvas; become familiar with communications tools and the Course Home Page; create Discussions and Assignments, and manage grades with SpeedGrader and Gradebook. Join us to get a jumpstart in Canvas. Read more...
• Jun 4

  (WEBINAR) Exploring Peer Assessments: A Comparative View of Canvas Peer Review, CLAS, ComPAIR and iPeer – June 4, 2020 Exploring Peer Assessments is the ideal session for instructors looking to better understand how peer reviews can work in their classrooms and the learning tools that can help implement these activities. This workshop will present a comparative view of some of the Faculty of Arts’ best used peer assessment tools: Canvas Peer Review, iPeer, the Collaborative Learning Annotation System (CLAS) and ComPAIR. Participants will have the opportunity to learn how to set up activities with these tools and then try them out as students. This session is all you need to make confident decisions about the best peer assessment tools for your classes. Read more...
• Jun 4

  (Webinar) What We’ve Learned from Moving to Online Language Instruction: A Panel Presentation – June 4, 2020 Description Teaching a language in the upcoming fall semester? Looking for ideas and inspiration on how to make the transition online? In this panel presentation, faculty members Florian Gassner (CENES), Luisa Canuto (FHIS), Brianne Orr-Álvarez (FHIS), and Qian Wang (ASIA) share what they’ve learned from designing and teaching online language courses, followed by a question... Read more...
• Jun 8

  (WEBINAR) Navigating Collaborate Ultra – June 8, 2020 Blackboard Collaborate Ultra is a web conferencing application that can be used to conduct live online lectures and seminars with your students. It can be enabled through any Canvas course, and lectures can be facilitated easily through the use of screen sharing, uploading videos and presentations, and a collaborative whiteboard feature. This one-hour webinar will guide you through utilizing Blackboard Collaborate Ultra's main features, including hosting sessions, sharing media, raising hands, breakout groups, and making past sessions available for download. Read more...