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Arts Remote Teaching Consultations & Canvas Template

Arts remote teaching support
Arts ISIT offers course consultations and Canvas templates to prepare instructors for remote teaching.

Don’t know where to get started with online instruction? Here are four practical options for accessing resources and building your Canvas courses.

  1. Enrol in the Remote Teaching Demo Course
  2. See Sample Courses
  3. Schedule a Remote Teaching Consultation
  4. Import the Remote Teaching Template

Enrol in the Remote Teaching Demo Course

The Demo is a model Canvas course with an example course schedule, sample assessments, and instructor resources for online teaching, such as recommended strategies, helpful tips, and syllabus templates. The Demo can be viewed through self-enrolment in Canvas.

Self-enrol for the Arts Remote Teaching Template Demo

 

See Sample Courses

Faculty can also request access to sample courses developed by fellow instructors to see how others have customized the Template for their subjects. Options include:

Course code Title Instructor Preview
ANTH 302A Ethnography of South Asia Sara Shneiderman Click for screenshot
CHIN 461 Early Classical Chinese Poetry (to Han) Xiaowen Xu Click for screenshot
CHIN 463 Early Classical Chinese Poetry (Han to Tang) Xiaowen Xu Click for screenshot
CRWR 209 Introduction to Writing Fiction John Vigna Click for screenshot
ENGL 110 On Literature and Love: How do we tell love stories and why? Gillian Jerome Click for screenshot
PSYC 101 Introduction to Biological and Cognitive Psychology Steven Barnes Click for screenshot

For access, use the form below and list your requested courses.

 

Schedule a Remote Teaching Consultation

Educational technologists from Arts ISIT, along with learning designers from Arts ISIT and CTLT with experience in online course design are available for virtual consultations to answer any questions you might have as you prepare to teach remotely. Our experts can help identify the best tools and established online teaching practices for meeting your learning outcomes.

To set up a consultation, please use the form below to send us your questions and availabilities, and we will respond with a time and virtual meeting link.

 

Import the Arts Remote Teaching Template

The Template provides a blank framework for online courses, as well as useful materials like student resources and surveys, which can be imported from Canvas Commons into your course shell. On Canvas, it is possible to either import all content from the Arts Remote Teaching Template or only import select pages, modules, or assignments. The guides below will explain how to do both, with more detailed instructions in the Canvas Commons Guide.

Importing All Content

Importing All Content

  1. Log into canvas.ubc.ca.
  2. Go to Commons from the global navigation.
  3. In the search field, type "Arts Remote Teaching Template."
  4. Click on the course in the results.
  5. Under the Preview tab, you can view and navigate through the content in the template.
  6. Click on the Import/Download button.
  7. Select the course you would like to import the template into.
  8. Click Import into Course.

Note: If you download the content onto your computer from the Commons and upload it into your course shell as a cartridge, you will not be prompted to update it if the course from the Commons changes.

Importing Select Content

Importing Select Content

  1. Log into canvas.ubc.ca.
  2. Go to Commons from the global navigation.
  3. In the search field, type "Arts Remote Teaching Template."
  4. Click on the course in the results.
  5. Under the Preview tab, you can view and navigate through the content in the template
  6. Click on the Import/Download button
  7. Click on the Download button to download the course cartridge zip file
  8. Go to your course
  9. Click on Settings from your course menu
  10. Click on Import Course Content from the right sidebar
  11. From the "Content Type" drop-down menu, select Common Cartridge 1.x Package
  12. Click choose file and select the course cartridge zip file that you downloaded from the Commons
  13. Click Select specific content
  14. Click Import
  15. Under "Current Jobs", click on Select Content beside your import
  16. Select the content that you would like to import
  17. Click Select Content

To learn how to make use of the template, view our webinar recording or download the presentation slides.

View webinar

 

Getting Started