Asif Sami Haque, Educational Consultant within Arts ISIT, facilitating a Canvas workshop to Arts instructors and teaching assistants.
In preparation for the new term, please have a look through this checklist to ensure that your courses are ready.
Canvas course setup
Check to see if you have a Canvas site set up for each of your courses
When you log into Canvas, your course(s) should display as Course Card(s) on your Dashboard or in the “All Courses” list in the Courses tab.
Merge courses and copy course content as needed
Contact us for assistance with cross-listing/merging courses or to copy over content from a previous course.
Prepare your course readings
It is best to merge Canvas courses before setting up Library Online Course Reserves (LOCR). If LOCR have already been requested for the original courses, resubmit your LOCR request with the newly merged course(s).
Check that your TA(s) have been added
Once your department timetable representative (T-Rep) has entered your Teaching Assistant(s) (TA) into the SIS system, they will automatically have access a week before classes start. (TA(s) cannot be added to courses before their appointment start date).
Go to the “People” tab in your Course Navigation menu within Canvas. If you do not see your TA(s) listed a week before classes start, please contact your T-Rep.
To help your TA(s) get ready to support your classes, encourage them to self-enrol to our Arts Teaching Assistant Training course in Canvas.
Adjust settings
Apply the final touches to your Canvas course:
- Add the availability and due dates to Assignments, Quizzes and Discussions.
- Publish all modules and content pages to made them visible to students.
- Set the Grade Posting Policy to “Manually Post Grades” to ensure grading activity is hidden from students (by default, grades are released automatically so you may wish to change this to manually).
- Finally, publish your Canvas course so that students can access it on the first day of the new term.
Other considerations based on delivery mode
Identify your course delivery
As UBC provides an expanded range of course delivery modes, prepare for your course delivery by reading our course delivery mode resources.
Create a UBC-registered Zoom account
We recommend having a UBC-registered Zoom account, which you can request by contacting UBC IT at av.helpdesk@ubc.ca with your UBC email and name of your Faculty / School / Department.
Set up recording and streaming in the classroom (optional)
To assist instructors with recording and sharing their lectures online, Arts ISIT and UBC Learning Spaces offer media capture support for classrooms.
Book a computer lab (optional)
Arts ISIT has Windows and Mac computer labs available to book for instructor use, which also includes one-off reservations to host digital assessments.
