Grading Made Easy

How to Unlock Your Canvas Gradebook’s Full Potential

Thursday, Sept. 8, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in M2260
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John Freml, Instructional Designer

The Canvas Gradebook is a powerful tool that can keep you organized throughout the semester and provide greater transparency for your students. In this session, we will explore Gradebook features in greater detail, including how to weight grades, different methods to incorporate extra credit, automating grades and using advanced assignments features, including rubrics, Turnitin, inline grading and feedback. Time will be provided for Q&A and discussion of particular grading issues in your own courses.

Note: Faculty can receive one point toward their training and innovation professional development total for successful completion of this workshop.

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Improving Student Success With LLCC Early Alert

Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in M1174
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Alex Barry, Director Student Success
Becky Miller, Professor, Psychology
Angie Gum-Miller, Professor, Mathematics

​​​​The LLCC Office of Student Success resurrected an Early Alert process during the fall 2021 semester. During the 2021-22 school year, we learned a lot from the process and are hopeful to engage more faculty in the process during the 2022-23 year! In short, Early Alert is when faculty can give alerts or kudos to their students during specific campaigns throughout the semester. When an alert is raised, the student and student success coach are notified, and the success coach reaches out to the student to provide support. The early alert process has been a great way to increase faculty, success coach and student communication. Any faculty are welcome at this workshop to learn more about how to participate in the early alert process.

Note: Faculty can receive one point toward their training and innovation professional development total for successful completion of this workshop.

Registration

LLCC Academic Innovation and eLearning is offering a number of relevant workshops presented by faculty and staff at LLCC, as well as two guest speakers, this semester. Dr. Joseph Flynn, executive director for equity and inclusion and associate professor of curriculum and instruction at Northern Illinois University will present the all-day session “Understanding and Addressing (Anti)Racism in Classrooms” on Sept. 30, and Dr. Vance Martin, executive policy advisor for accessibility at the University of Illinois Board of Trustees Office, will present “Quality Course Design Through Universal Design for Learning” on Oct. 17.

Other sessions include:

• Improving Student Success With LLCC Early Alert
• Say Hello to Operation Assessment @LLCC!
• Grading Made Easy: How to Unlock Your Canvas Gradebook’s Full Potential
• Reacting to the Past: Our Experiments With Active Learning Pedagogy at LLCC
• Open Educational Resources: The Accessible and Affordable Alternative
• Say Hello to Operation Assessment Planning!
• Open Educational Resources: Locating, Curating and Assessing Open Content
• Say Hello to Operation “Deployed Planned Assessment!”
• Digital Accessibility in Canvas: Quick Tips for Busy Profs
• Say Hello to Operation “This is your Finest Moment!”
• Improved Student Engagement With Canvas Studio
• Say Hello to Operation Show and Tell!
• Canvas Open Labs
• Virtual conferences with free registration for LLCC faculty and staff

Please note that registration is necessary for each session. You can view the full schedule and register through the AIeL Workshop Portal page.

This week’s Monday Morning Mentor topic from Magna Publications:
How Can I Reach and Teach Struggling Students?

Presentation date: Aug. 29, 2022 and on-demand for one week
View the presentation and access the transcript, handouts and supplemental material: https://mondaymorningmentors.com.

NOTE: You will need to enter the following password in order to view this week’s program: struggling41.

Access to the programs in the Monday Morning Mentor series is restricted to members of the subscribing institution. Any unauthorized use or access, including sharing access with faculty and staff not affiliated with the subscribing institution, is prohibited.

This week’s Monday Morning Mentor topic from Magna Publications:
How Can I Use the First Day to Set the Tone for a Semester of Learning?

Presentation date: Aug. 22, 2022 and on-demand for one week
View the presentation and access the transcript, handouts and supplemental material: https://mondaymorningmentors.com.

NOTE: You will need to enter the following password in order to view this week’s program: semester72.

Please note: Access to the programs in the Monday Morning Mentor series is restricted to members of the subscribing institution. Any unauthorized use or access, including sharing access with faculty and staff not affiliated with the subscribing institution, is prohibited.

An open lab with Academic Innovation and eLearning staff, “Canvas Questions and Active Learning Classrooms,” will be held today, Aug. 18, 2-4 p.m. in Sangamon Hall, Room 1103.

Attend this open lab to ask the AIeL team your Canvas and active learning classroom questions. We encourage faculty who need assistance setting up their Canvas course for the fall 2022 semester to take this opportunity to finalize your courses and to get any additional help with Canvas you may need. AIeL staff will also be available to demonstrate and answer questions about Airtame, the new wireless presentation software that has been installed in most of the Active Learning Classrooms.

An open lab with Academic Innovation and eLearning staff, “Canvas Questions and Active Learning Classrooms,” will be held Thursday, Aug. 18, 2-4 p.m. in Sangamon Hall, Room 1103.

Attend this open lab to ask the AIeL team your Canvas and active learning classroom questions. We encourage faculty who need assistance setting up their Canvas course for the fall 2022 semester to take this opportunity to finalize your courses and to get any additional help with Canvas you may need. AIeL staff will also be available to demonstrate and answer questions about Airtame, the new wireless presentation software that has been installed in most of the Active Learning Classrooms.

Canvas’ annual conference, InstructureCon will be held July 14, and registration is now open! This free one-day event is an opportunity to hear from fellow educators, network with peers and get the latest edtech knowledge on Canvas and the entire Instructure learning platform.