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All Canvas sites are created upon request by faculty teaching courses at the University of Pennsylvania or by their TAs or support staff. PLEASE NOTE: It is recommended that Canvas sites be requested two months before the start of the semester, but sites can be requested at any time near…Continue reading “Request a New Canvas Site”

18Mar 201918 Mar 2019

“How Do I Prepare Students for Classroom Learning?” Priming in-Class Activities with Tech (DigPed 001) Wednesday, March 20, 2019 2:00pm - 3:30pm Goldstein Electronic Classroom (Room 114) Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center Workshop instructors will share how technology can prepare students for in-class activties. Participants will consider: “What do you want students to take away from class?” Workshop facilitators will model classroom scenarios to demonstate how technology can prepare students for achieving learning goals. Participants will explore instructional technology tools and develop pre-class activities of their own. For faculty, TAs, and staff. Workshops in the Teaching and Tech series are designed to develop your familiarity with theoretical frameworks of how people learn, the application and evaluation of technologies used for instruction, and techniques to leverage physical spaces for active learning. For more information and to register: guides.library.upenn.edu/teachtech

Register for the DigPed 001 Workshop!

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12Mar 201913 Mar 2019

Teaching and Tech A 3-Part Workshop Series March 20 Priming In-Class Activities with Tech April 3 Maximizing Student Response April 17 Designing Effective Assessments. All workshops are held in the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center. Register at https://guides.library.upenn.edu/teachtech

Spring 2019 Teaching+Tech Workshops

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Canvas Production Release: March 9, 2019

Canvas operates on a three-week release cycle through which features are added or updated. Courseware Support posts highlights from Canvas’s…

New to Canvas?

Check out Canvas 101: Using Canvas at Penn for instructions, ideas, inspiration, and more!

Spring 2019 Start-of-Term Checklist for Faculty & TAS

15 Jan 20197 Feb 2019

The following are a few tips to help faculty and TAs get started with Canvas for the Spring 2019 term at the University of Pennsylvania. 1. Create a Course Site.…

RESOLVED: Course Request Form Down

8 Jan 201923 Jan 2019

The issue affecting the Course Request Form has been resolved, and the Form is working again. Users can now place Canvas site requests through the Course Request Form: https://dla.library.upenn.edu/siterequest/ We…

Course Request Form Down

8 Jan 201915 Jan 2019

The Course Request Form (https://dla.library.upenn.edu/siterequest/) is currently unavailable. Users receive an error message of: "This site can’t be reached dla.library.upenn.edu took too long to respond. ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT" This outage appears to…

Canvas Production Release: January 5, 2019

3 Jan 201921 Dec 2018

Canvas operates on a three-week release cycle through which features are added or updated. Courseware Support posts highlights from Canvas’s production release notes, a link to these notes, and other…

Turnitin Maintenance: 1/5, 11am-7pm EST

29 Dec 201811 Dec 2018

Turnitin will be unavailable on Saturday, January 5th from 11am-7pm EST due to scheduled maintenance by the vendor. Instructors are encouraged to set assignment due dates that avoid scheduled maintenance…

Submitting Grades for Fall 2018

21 Dec 20188 Jan 2019

As you wrap up grading for the semester, you might be wondering how you can use the Canvas gradebook to submit final grades for your courses. Although many instructors calculate…

News and Announcements

Course Request Form Outage 12/26-12/30

19 Dec 201830 Nov 2018

Wednesday December 26th through Sunday December 30th, the Course Request Form (https://dla.library.upenn.edu/siterequest/) will be unavailable due to a data center migration by Library Technology Services. This outage only impacts the ability…

Video: Grading in Canvas at the End of a Term

17 Dec 20184 Dec 2018

We hope you enjoy this video geared towards faculty and TAs managing grades in Canvas using the gradebook! It shows six steps for finishing up grading in Canvas at the…

Canvas End-of-Term Grading Checklist

12 Dec 201819 Dec 2018

The following checklist has been designed to help your end-of-term grading run smoothly. 1.) Download and Save the Current Version of the Canvas Gradebook It's a best practice to download…

Fall 2018 Final Exam “Dos” & “Don’ts”

10 Dec 20184 Dec 2018

DOs Do publish your exam in Canvas before exam time. Please click on this link for instructions on how to publish you exam: How do I use Draft State in…

Canvas Help
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2019Time: 11:00am - 12:00pmPresenter: Joe Schaffner Library: Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center Need help with Canvas? Sign Up For One on One help from a Canvas expert. Appointments are for individual users or affiliated groups (co-instructors, TAs in the same course, etc.) and are not drop-in sessions
Canvas Help
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2019Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pmPresenter: Joe Schaffner Library: Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center Need help with Canvas? Sign Up For One on One help from a Canvas expert. Appointments are for individual users or affiliated groups (co-instructors, TAs in the same course, etc.) and are not drop-in sessions
Canvas Help
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2019Time: 10:00am - 11:00amPresenter: Molly Bonnard Library: Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center Need help with Canvas? Sign Up For One on One help from a Canvas expert. Appointments are for individual users or affiliated groups (co-instructors, TAs in the same course, etc.) and are not drop-in sessions