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.

As a reminder, the FSI: At the Intersection of Teaching, Learning and Technology Conference, “Back to the Future: 25 Years of FSI,” is coming up on May 17-18, 2022, in Champaign. Registration is open.

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Register for FSI Conference.

The end of the semester is fast approaching … and there are some recommendations that we have for end-of-the-semester course management that we will be sharing here this week and next. For this week, the topic is Course Backups.

The first recommendation that we have is to keep a backup of your course grade book. The best way to do this is to export the grades in your course grade book to your computer or a secure external storage device.

It is also recommended that you archive your courses at the end of the semester.  This can be done be exporting each course as a .imscc file which can be saved on your computer or secure storage device. The video below will take you through the process on how to back up your course (or courses).

There are just three weeks until the FSI: At the Intersection of Teaching, Learning and Technology Conference, “Back to the Future: 25 Years of FSI,” which will be held May 17-18, 2022 in Champaign. Registration is open.

View the schedule grid.
Register for FSI Conference.

Midwest Institute for International-Intercultural Education (MIIIE) will host a virtual workshop on “Climate Change and People’s Livelihoods”
Saturday, May 7, 10 a.m.-noon and 1-3:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The registration fee is $25.

This workshop will examine how climate change is impacting people’s livelihoods in various parts of the world. There are useful insights from people and institutions that are trying to adapt and/or mitigate climate change  in their effort to improve or at least maintain their livelihoods.

In particular, there will be presentations on:

• What is Climate Change and Why Does it Matter?
• Combatting Global Climate Change: The Limits of Legal Options
• The Interactions Among Water, Climate and Societies in a Changing Global Environment

To register, visit www.miiie.org/workshops/climate-change.

This week’s Monday Morning Mentor topic from Magna Publications:
How Can I Redesign a Classroom Assignment for Online Teaching?

Presentation date: April 25, 2022 and on-demand for one week
Link to presentation: https://mondaymorningmentors.com

NOTE: You will need to enter a password in order to view the program. See Monday’s email from Academic Innovation and eLearning 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.

Canvas Commons

Did you know that you have access to Canvas’s learning object repository called the Canvas Commons? In the Canvas Commons, you can search for, share and import most Canvas content types, including courses, modules, assignments, quizzes, discussions, pages, documents, video and audio files, and images.

Please view the video below for an overview of the Canvas Commons. You can also read the page entitled What is the Canvas Commons?, or view the entire collection of Instructor Canvas Common resources from the Canvas Community to learn more.

325 – Commons Overview from Instructure Canvas Community on Vimeo.

Final Canvas Open Lab of the Spring Semester

We encourage you to attend the final Canvas Open Labs of the spring 2022 semester 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 this open lab. Please note that the sessions below will be held over Zoom.  

• Thursday, April 28, 2022 ∙ 3-4 p.m. ∙ Zoom Link