LLCC Academic Innovation and eLearning hopes you have a relaxing winter recess. You’ve earned it! Here are some resources that may be helpful as you prepare for next spring. 

• Canvas Support Options for LLCC – the first half of this video outlines support options available to you from Canvas if you have questions over winter break. Please note that AIeL staff will not return to campus until Jan. 3, 2022.
• Archiving your Canvas Course – this video shows how to export an archive of your Canvas course and save it to your computer.
• Transferring Canvas Course Materials – please see this video to learn about transferring materials from one Canvas course shell to another.
• Course Cleanup – this video contains tips for cleaning up your Canvas course shell after a Canvas course import or course copy.
• Migrating a Blackboard Export File to Canvas – Please view this video if you have a Blackboard export file (.zip file) saved on your computer that needs to be moved into Canvas.

The Illinois Community College Online will sponsor the annual Growing Online Learning Conference Feb. 8-10, 2022. The theme of this year’s conference is “Quality Online Teaching, Learning, and Support.”  Registration will open in January. This is a free online conference for all Illinois community college faculty and staff.

KEYNOTE: From Pivot to Progress: Leveraging Our Momentum of the Pandemic Response — Tina Parscal, Ph.D., Associate Vice Chancellor for CCCOnline and Academic Affairs, Colorado Community College System

Conference Sessions:
Feb. 8

• 10 a.m. — From Pivot to Progress: Leveraging Our Momentum of the Pandemic Response, Tina Parscal, Colorado Community College System
• 2 p.m. — How to Get Students to Watch your Videos, Kona Jones, Richland Community College

Feb. 9

• 10 a.m. — Creating a ‘Common’ Ground for Student and Faculty Support, Morgann Quilty, Jane Smith, Lori Wendt,
  Parkland College
• 2 p.m. — Quality Teaching and Learning — Faculty Panel and Showcase Meri Engel, Anne Humphrey, McHenry County College; Debra Guerrero, John Halliwell, Moraine Valley Community College

Feb. 10

• 10 a.m. — Creating a Course Template with Quality in Mind, Heather Moore, Rock Valley College
• 2 p.m. — Developing an In-House Orientation to Online Teaching, Lirim Neziroski, Prairie State College

Attend the Canvas Open Labs listed below to ask the AIeL team your Canvas questions and to get any additional help with Canvas you may need. Registration is not required for open labs and there are options are for meeting both face-to-face and over Zoom.

• Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, 2-3 p.m. ∙ S0119 and Zoom (Dec. 7)
• Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. 10-11 a.m. ∙ S0119 and Zoom (Dec. 8)

This week’s Monday Morning Mentor topic from MAGNA Publications:
What Can I Do to Manage and Reduce Academic Job Stress?
Presentation date: Dec. 6, 2021 and on-demand for one week

Link to the presentation: mondaymorningmentors.com
From this link, you can view the featured 20-Minute Mentor and access the transcript, handouts and supplemental material. These materials are only available for the week of the presentation.

NOTE: You will need to enter a password in order to view the program. See Monday’s email from Becky Parton for the password, or contact becky.parton@llcc.edu.

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.

Upcoming Canvas Open Labs

We encourage you to attend any of the remaining Canvas Open Labs listed below to ask the AIeL team your Canvas questions and to get any additional help with Canvas you may need. Registration is not required for open labs and there are options are for meeting both face-to-face and over Zoom.

• Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, 2-3 p.m. ∙ S0119 and Zoom (Dec. 7)
• Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. 10-11 a.m. ∙ S0119 and Zoom (Dec. 8)

Resetting Course Content Option Now Available in Canvas

The option to Reset Course Content has recently been made available to faculty in Canvas. This option will permanently delete all associated course content in a Canvas course shell, allowing you to build from a blank shell. This video focuses on directions for Resetting Course Content in a Canvas Shell.

The following videos may offer additional helpful information related to transferring course content to Canvas course shells for next semester.

• Transferring Canvas Course Materials
  Please see this video about transferring materials from one Canvas Course Shell to another.
• Course Cleanup
  This video contains tips for cleaning up your Canvas course shell after a Canvas course import or course copy.
• Migrating a Blackboard Export File to Canvas
  Please see the video above if you still have a Blackboard export file (.zip file) saved on your computer that needs to be moved into Canvas.

Using New Analytics in Canvas
Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Delivery – Virtual (Zoom)
Amanda Sessions, Customer Success Manager, Higher Education, Instructure

New Analytics is a Canvas tool that allows instructors to track average course grades for student submissions using an interactive chart, graph, or table. Additionally, New Analytics allows you to filter and compare student data to whole class averages. Having access to this information provides insights into student engagement and participation as well as student overall assessment and progression. This session will provide an overview of New Analytics and an introduction to creating and interpreting data reports using New Analytics in Canvas.

Note: Current online faculty participating in the Online Proficiency Program can receive one point for successful completion of this workshop.

Register for the workshop.

Overview of Turnitin

The video below is from the LLCC Academic Innovation and eLearning team from the “Did You Know?” video series. The video provides a brief overview of Turnitin, which is an Integrated Plagiarism Detection and Prevention Tool that can be used with Canvas Assignment.