Professional Development Schedule


2024

Professional Development Schedule

Professional Development Zoom link:

Join Professional Development!

Meeting ID |944 3392 8143

Password |614328

Use the link above to join any of the sessions that have a virtual option

(Excluding Zoom Training, which is held in Teams. Find the Teams link in the calendar)

Registration is not required for virtual sessions

Sessions will be in the Flex format. Session descriptions can be found below the calendars at the bottom.

The following sessions are in Blue Bell (CH 179) or Zoom: Getting Started with Canvas, Gradebook and Rubrics, Grading and SpeedGrader, Yuja Verity, Canvas Outcomes, Canvas Quizzes and Test Banks, Zoom for Canvas.

The following sessions are in Pottstown (please see calendar for room) or Zoom: Canvas Roll Call and Attendance and Canvas Communication Tools + Groups and Collaboration

October 2024
Sep 2024

Nov 2024
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3

Getting Started with Canvas

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Canvas Roll Call and Attendance

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

SH 214

4

Canvas Quizzes and Test Banks

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14

Getting Started with Canvas

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Zoom for Canvas

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Join Zoom for Canvas here

Canvas Communication Tools and Groups/Collaboration

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

SH 205

15

Yuja Verity

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

16 17 18 19
20 21

Canvas Outcomes

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

22

Gradebook and Rubrics

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Grading and Speedgrader

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

23 24

Yuja Verity

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

25 26
27 28 29 30 31
WinCalendar

November 2024

Oct 2024

Dec 2024
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2
3 4 5 6

Canvas Communication Tools and Groups/Collaboration

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

SH 205

7

Canvas Quizzes and Test Banks

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18

Canvas Outcomes

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

19

Zoom for Canvas

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Join Zoom Session here

20

Canvas Roll Call and Attendance

3:00 - 3:30 PM

SH 214

21 22

Yuja Verity

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Professional Development Session Details
(Click a title below to reveal the session description)

This session will review the assignment and discussion tools. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Creating an Assignment
  • Assignment Settings
  • Creating a Discussion
  • Discussion settings
  • TurnIt In Basics

This session will cover how to take attendance using Roll Call and will include:

  • Adding Attendance to your course menu
  • Reviewing the Attendance (Roll Call) settings
  • Linking Attendance to the Gradebook
  • Attendance reporting

This session will review communication tools in Canvas that will help you communicate with your students and the use of groups for collaboration. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Canvas Inbox (internal messaging system)
  • Course Calendar
  • Announcements
  • Setting up groups
  • Office 365 Collaboration

This session will review the reports available to you as an instructor. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Where to access reports
  • What reports are available
  • How to run reports
  • Sample reports

This will be an introductory session on how to get started with Canvas. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Accessing and logging into Canvas
  • Canvas Navigation Basics
  • Suggestions on how to approach reviewing and updating your courses
  • Basics of adding and re-arranging content
  • Review Course Evaluation Checklist
  • Creating and Adding Content

This session will cover setting up your gradebook and using rubrics. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Setting up gradebook
  • Managing categories
  • Setting up Weighted Total
  • Overall gradebook management
  • Creating Rubrics

This session will cover to how grade assessments in Canvas and the use of SpeedGrader. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Grading each assignment type (assignment, quiz, etc)
  • Grade settings and grade management
  • Using SpeedGrader
  • Providing feedback to students (with/without a rubric)
  • Student view of feedback

This session will cover how to use Kahoot! in the classroom. It will include:

  • Creating a Kahoot!
  • Sharing with students
  • Using in PowerPoint
  • Tips for use in the classroom

This session will cover Canvas quizzes and test banks. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Reviewing Quizzes from Blackboard
  • Creating a new quiz
  • Quiz settings
  • Working with test banks
  • Student view of quizzes

This session will show what a course looks like from the student view. This will allow you to better understand students questions about their experience. Topics covered in this session will include:

  • Dashboard
  • Course Stream
  • Reviewing Content
  • Discussions
  • Inbox
  • Groups
  • Assessments
  • Grades
  • Grade Predictor tool

This session will demonstrate how to use TunritIn (the replacement for SafeAssign) as a faculty member and how to interpret the scores. This includes setting up an assignment with Turnitin. Draft Coach, an interactive online coach for citations, grammar, and similarity will be demonstrated. Draft Coach is available for both faculty and students.

This session will review Verity, which is the replacement for Lockdown Browser:

  • how to set up Verity in Canvas for both faculty and students
  • how to set up a quiz with Verity
  • the features and functionality of Verity quiz settings
  • accessing and reading the Verity data dashboard

This session will review how to begin using Yuja. Topics include:

  • Library Organization
  • Recording a Yuja video
  • Editing Basics
  • Closed-captioning Basics
  • Sharing with students

Blackboard Collaborate will be sunsetting for the College on June 30, 2023. This session will review how to use Zoom for synchronous sessions.



Article ID: 12518
Created: March 29, 2022
Last Updated: September 30, 2024
Author: Kimberly Springfield

Online URL: https://kb.mc3.edu/article.php?id=12518