CETL offers several self-paced workshops to help with several critical themes in teaching and learning. For each online workshop, complete a short assignment or activity to share what you have put into practice in your classroom.
The series encourages you to go at your own pace. The workshops are designed with flexibility in mind: take the workshops when you want, and in the order you need.
We highly recommend these workshops for faculty new to teaching at Cal State LA. All instructors of record, including lecturers and graduate teaching associates (TAs), are welcome to participate in CETL programming.
Self-Paced Workshops
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In this self-paced course, explore the essentials tools and features of Canvas. Learn how to use Modules, Quizzes, Assignments, Discussions, and Rubrics. You will also have the option to check out: Roll-Call Attendance, Prerequisites and Requirements, and Scheduler (Canvas Calendar).
Workshop Objectives:
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Explore activities that can be used to foster collaborative and more active learning in the online portion of your course.
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Design a low stakes activity for a particular assignment you have in mind for your courses, such as a survey, poll, discussion, or reflection assignment.
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Explore the following Canvas tools: module, quiz, assignment, scheduler, discussion, rubric, and roll call attendance.
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Configure prerequisites or requirements within Modules or Assignments.
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In this self-paced course, learn how to configure the Canvas Gradebook to provide students with up-to-date information on their progress in the course. You will also learn how to use the SpeedGrader for efficient grading workflows and providing student's timely feedback.
Workshop Objectives:
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Describe the purpose of grades and grading in a course.
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Recognize the defining characteristics of the two main gradebook types, Points Based and Weighted Percentages.
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Identify the correct setup procedures for both gradebook types, extra credit, and dropping the lowest score.
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Interpret the various visual indicators for student submission and grading status.
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Select features within SpeedGrader for efficient grading and student feedback.
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Explain the importance of changing empty/missing grades to zeroes (0).
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In this self-paced course, learn how to best utilize media in your course to free up design and engage students. You will also learn how to find pre-existing videos and online content to help supplement your course.
Workshop Objectives:
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Define and identify known OERs for various contents.
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Use the Canvas Rich Content Editor to embed an image or video.
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Identify the need and practice of web-accessible instructional content.
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Apply the general rules of Copyright in Education using Canvas Commons.
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Do you know that more than 50% of your students have parents who do not have a bachelor's degree? These students are determined to succeed. However, they do not have informal guides, such as their parents, to orient them to the college experience. In this self-paced course, you will list their challenges and different strategies to incorporate first-generation students into your teaching and the university.
Workshop Objectives:
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Distinguish challenges first-generation students face from their non-first-generation counterparts.
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Define hidden curriculum and impostor syndrome.
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Identify strategies to help support first-generation students in your classroom.
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Being online is disorienting! Have you ever looked at your Canvas course and thought, "Why is it organized this way?" Nothing seems to fit together; it is a bit messy. On mobile, you scroll forever; you open files in another application; and shift back to Canvas. Is there a better way?
In this self-paced online workshop, see how weekly overview pages and modules can help organize your Canvas course. Overview pages (1) welcome and introduce students to the week; (2) summarize the upcoming assignments and activities; and (3) show students the connection between assignments and learning outcomes.
With overview pages and organized modules, both you and your students navigate your course with ease. Your Canvas course turns into an organized learning environment and place where you all want to create, think, apply, and share.
Deliverable: Completion of 3 Knowledge Check Quizzes and Sample Overview Page
Workshop Objectives:
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Describe navigational or structural issues students may have had participating (getting around) in your course.
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Determine how to use sections of a syllabus to structure a Canvas course.
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Identify how to structure a module and its overview page to explain how learning will proceed (flow).
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Identify non-measurable language in student learning outcomes/objectives.
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Connect how a module's activities relate to the student learning outcomes in the syllabus.
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Organize a week of the course using the Overview Page template.
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Having trouble with students cheating on tests? Dive into our practical, equity-based approaches that mitigate this stressful issue that arises during in-person and remote instruction. Learn about how cheating environments are created and practice modifying your assessments and course design to discourage the motivation to cheat. See how faculty have implemented new strategies to help eliminate cheating on assessments.
Deliverable: Rules of Engagement Document for students
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You can identify conditions that create cheating environments.
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You can reflect on how assignment design strategies can reduce cheating.
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You can practice incorporating explicit guidelines and expectations for test-taking.
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You can describe how social learning positively benefits students’ motivation, understanding, and retrieval-- and consider building social learning into your assessments.
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Do you want to save yourself the time, guesswork, and headache of grading? Are you looking for ways to grade equitably and effectively? This workshop will guide you in setting up equitable and consistent grading practices that are bias-resistant, maintain academic standards, increase student motivation, and that will help ensure your course grading practices accurately reflect your student’s academic level of performance.
Deliverable: Grading Best Practices Document
Workshop Objectives:
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Identify equity-minded grading practices.
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Reflect on your current grading practices and how they can be modified to improve equity and student success.
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Explore alternate grading systems, assessment strategies, and forms of instruction.
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Determine the specific, observable, and measurable skills for your students to achieve and align your grading with those specifications.
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Define the scope of your assessments and explicitly share those criteria with your students through transparent instructions and rubrics.
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Revise an assignment to include equity-minded grading practices and a student-centered rubric.