The ongoing implementation of Canvas, UBC’s new online learning platform, has created some exciting opportunities for instructors to advance their teaching. Get to know some of these stories of your fellow faculty’s teaching experiences in this collaborative, instructor-led workshop, combined with an afternoon tea. This session will feature six Faculty of Arts instructors, from a range of disciplines, discussing their use of Canvas tools.
- Silvia Bartolic from the Department of Sociology will explain how the internal Canvas Peer Review tool enabled her to quickly and easily set up and oversee peer assessment assignments in her courses.
- Mark Turin, of the First Nations and Endangered Languages/ Anthropology department, uses the Canvas Calendar Scheduling Tool to create time slots to organize his office hours, ensuring he is able to meet with all his students.
- Luisa Canuto, from the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies will demonstrate how utilizing Canvas internal grading tools (SpeedGrader and Gradebook) has made her grading more efficient and helped her provide useful feedback on assignment submissions.
- Farah Shroff, working in the interdisciplinary field of Public Health, making her one of the very few instructors teaching courses in both the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Medicine, will speak about how she encourages her students to use Discussions as a space to share their thoughts and questions after each lecture.
- Jonathan Graves from the Vancouver School of Economics, will share about the Economics department plan to use blueprints across multiple courses to help create a common look and feel. He will also speak about how template options available to instructors ensure efficiency, consistency, automation and professionalism across courses.
- And Xiaowen Xu of the Department of Asian Studies, has made full use of Canvas Files to organize her course materials and Modules to guide her students to successful learning outcomes.
The concept behind this unique session is to showcase the adaptability and efficiency of Canvas tools, how these have helped other instructors advance their teaching and how they could benefit your classes.
Key Speakers
Dr. Silvia Bartolic
Department of Sociology
Dr. Mark Turin
First Nations and Endangered Languages/ Anthropology Department
Dr. Farah Shroff
Political Science Department in the Faculty of Arts and School of Population and Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine
Dr. Luisa Canuto Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
Jonathan Graves
Vancouver School of Economics
Dr. Xiaowen Xu
Asian Studies Department
