Canvas Training

Recorded  Training Sessions (Asynchronous)

Below is a list of recordings for key training sessions delivered over the past year. Dates of recordings have been noted as some sessions were delivered to support staff at a particular point of the pandemic. These asynchronous resources can be accessed at a place and time that suits your schedule. We hope the recordings will serve as a useful resource to refer back to throughout the academic year.

Accessibility

🎬  ‘Blackboard Ally in Canvas’ – delivered by VLE Pedagogy Support Team on 17.06.2021 – (Jennifer Reid & Jen McParland)

Assessment

🎬  ‘Canvas Assignments’ – delivered by VLE Pedagogy Support Team on 30.04.2021 – (Aaron Crozier)

🎬  ‘Marking & Exporting’ – delivered by VLE Pedagogy Support Team on 07.05.2021 – (Aaron Crozier)

🎬  ‘Canvas Quizzes’ – delivered by VLE Pedagogy Support Team on 28.04.2021 – (Jennifer Reid)

🎬  ‘Enhancing Learning Through Assessment’ – delivered by VLE Pedagogy Support Team on 09.09.2020 – (Aaron Crozier)

🎬  ‘Designing Feedback Opportunities into Online Learning’ – delivered as part of the CED Connected Learning Seminar Series on 01.07.20 – (Dr Naomi Winstone, University of Surrey)

Course Development

🎬  ‘Building Your Course in Canvas’ – delivered by VLE Pedagogy Support Team on 07.09.2020 – (Jennifer Reid)

🎬  ‘Creating A Learner Journey with Requirements and Prerequisites’– delivered by VLE Pedagogy Support Team on 04.09.2020 – (Aaron Crozier)

Curriculum Design

🎬  ‘Using the ABC Learning Design to Plan for Online and Blended Teaching’ – delivered by AHSS Digital Learning Team on 24.06.20 – (Emma McAllister)

Learning Communities

🎬  ‘Building Inclusive Online Learning Communities’ – delivered by VLE Pedagogy Support Team on 22.10.2020 – (Jennifer Reid)

Online Delivery

🎬  ‘How To Facilitate an Online Session‘ – delivered by VLE Pedagogy Support Team on 17.08.2020- (Aaron Crozier)

🎬  ‘Teaching with Video’ – delivered by VLE Pedagogy Support Team on 12.08.2020 – (Jen McParland)

🎬  ‘Alternative Approaches For Teaching & Learning’ – delivered by VLE Pedagogy Support Team on 22.09.2020 – (Jen McParland)

🎬  ‘Getting HyFlex ready through the Lens of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)’ – delivered by CED & QUB Colleagues on 12.08.2020 – ( Tracy Galvin, Dr Maryam Malekigorji  & Jason Bunting)

Student Engagement

🎬  ‘Enhancing Student Engagement Using Digital Tools’ – delivered by various QUB Teams on 26.08.20 – (Jen McParland, Emma McAllister, Michael Kelly)

🎬  ‘Creating Effective Discussion Forums’ – delivered by VLE Pedagogy Support Team and CED on 17.08.2020 – (Jennifer Reid & Tracy Galvin)

🎬  ‘Building Inclusive Online Learning Communities’ – delivered by VLE Pedagogy Support Team on 22.10.2020 – (Jennifer Reid)

🎬  ‘Beat the Pivot Panic: Proactive Design for Online Engagement’ – delivered as part of the CED Connected Learning Seminar Series on 19.08.20 – (Dr Orna Farrell, Dublin City University)

🎬  ‘ePortfolios using OneNote’ – delivered by AHSS Digital Learning Team on 28.08.20 – (Emma McAllister)

🎬  ‘Collaboration Online: Using Kialo and Padlet to Engage Students’ – delivered by AHSS Digital Learning Team on 11.09.20 – (Laura Farling)

Teaching Rooms AV Overview

🎬  ‘Teaching Room Induction’ – delivered by Information Services on 02.09.20 – (David Robinson )

Virtual  Training Sessions (By Request)

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🎬 Link to Assignment recording
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🎬 Link to Quizzes recording
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🎬 Link to Marking recording
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🎬 Link to Blackboard Ally recording

Online  Training Courses

Getting Started

‘Getting Started with Canvas at Queen’s’ is an online, self-paced introduction to Canvas which consists of 8 lessons.  The aim of the course is to prepare you to effectively and efficiently use Canvas to facilitate learning within your academic course(s), whether they are traditional, blended or fully online.
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Connected Learning

‘Connected Learning at Queen’s’ is an online, self-paced Canvas course, designed to support you in the development and delivery of your Canvas course during AY2020/21. The course includes tailored online guidance materials, short how-to type videos supported by a range of virtual training activities to guide you in your Connected Learning Journey.
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Small Group Teaching

This self-paced online course is intended for anyone new to teaching, including postgraduate teaching assistants and lab demonstrators. The course will introduce teaching fundamentals when supporting small groups, both face-to-face and online, with particular focus on Universal Design for Learning (UDL), accessibility and inclusive teaching activities.
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Accessibility Toolkit

This online course has been designed to inform you about accessibility, advise on how to create accessible content for learner variability, provide examples of good/bad practice, highlight tools which you can use to fix accessibility issues (e.g. Canvas Accessibility Checker, Blackboard Ally) and to signpost to monthly Training & Accessibility Drop-In Clinics.
🔗  Link to Course 

1-2-1   Support Sessions

Guided 1-2-1 Support