Workshops & Offerings

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All Things Canvas:

Growing with Canvas Faculty Training and Orientation
A professional development course designed to help educators and other users effectively utilize the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS). It’s a self-paced training that provides tools and strategies for creating engaging and effective learning experiences.

Vendor-led Vault
A collection of Canvas and instructional technology vendor-led training demonstrations. The previously recorded webinars and supplemental resources throughout this site are self-paced and should be completed after completing the Growing with Canvas course.

Instructional Technology Training Options:

Akindi
Akindi, a web-based system that automates the grading of paper-based, multiple-choice exams, serves as a replacement for traditional Scantron machines. It integrates with Canvas, allowing instructors to create, distribute, and grade assessments in one place. Akindi also offers features for analyzing student performance and test reliability.  Training sessions are designed to provide instructors with the basics of Akindi. They will cover a step-by-step guide on how to get up and running with Akindi Paper assessments, perfect for new Akindi users or those looking for a refresher!

Harmonize Discussions
We’re excited to share that instructors at UMass Dartmouth can use Harmonize, a discussion & collaboration tool that integrates with Canvas, to improve student engagement in your online discussions while saving you time in grading and managing your class!

Free recorded training for advanced topics!
Upcoming events hosted by Harmonize.
Visit our Harmonize webpage to learn more.

Kahoot! Game-based Learning
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that allows you to create, share, and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. Unleash the fun in face-to-face classrooms and online courses! Kahoot! functions as an interactive technology to engage students in the learning environment through Games, Interactive synchronous and asynchronous lessons, Polls, Quizzes, and Interactive lectures. Join us for a training and demonstration offered by a Kahoot! education specialist.

Kaltura – Creating Online Lectures
A lecture capture and personal recording solution is built into Blackboard and Canvas. Kaltura can record content on your computer screen, audio narration, and webcam video. After recording, your video is automatically processed and stored in your personal Kaltura media space. This workshop will guide participants through the process of initiating Kaltura, recording, and embedding videos into a Blackboard or Canvas site.

Lucid – NEW!
Instructors can enable the Lucid integration in Canvas to add it to the course navigation or use it to create assignments, allowing students to access tools for creating diagrams, flowcharts, mind maps, and collaborative virtual whiteboards directly within their learning environment. Lucid helps users visualize complex ideas, organize information, and collaborate on projects. Lucid is a platform that includes two main products: Lucidchart, for creating intelligent diagrams, flowcharts, and mind maps, and Lucidspark, a virtual whiteboard for brainstorming, ideation, and real-time collaboration.

TurnItIn Plagiarism Detection
TurnItIn is a web-based service that checks for plagiarism and originality in student writing. It compares submitted work to a large database of student work, articles, books, and websites. Turnitin generates an Originality Report for both faculty and students, highlighting and categorizing any matching text to detect plagiarism and inaccurate citation references, while striving to maintain academic integrity.

VoiceThread
A web-based application that allows users to create and share presentations, documents, and other media, and then engage in collaborative discussions using voice, video, or text comments. It’s used in education, business, and other settings to facilitate communication, feedback, and collaboration.

YuJa Panorama for Accessibility
We’re excited to announce that YuJa will host a series of webinars designed specifically for faculty and staff. These sessions are a great opportunity to refresh your knowledge of our tools and ask any questions directly to our experts. Did you know that YuJa Panorama allows instructors and students to locate, assess, and resolve accessibility issues, as well as access content directly within Canvas? Users can view a file-by-file accessibility gauge, see the severity of problems with color-coded icons, replace files, select from over 110 languages, and extract math equations from documents without leaving Canvas.

Online and Blended Teaching Training Options:

Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
A rigorous four-week, fully online, asynchronous course introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently and collaboratively with peers from across campus and instructional designers to design and build one unit of online instruction on a Canvas site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s). *Pre-requisite: Growing with Canvas

Visit Teaching Online for more information.

Blended Teaching: Designing Meaningful Content Connections
An engaging two-week, fully online course introduces faculty to current research and best practices for blended teaching and learning. Using their discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently and collaboratively with peers from across campus, as well as with Instructional Designers, to design and build one unit of blended instruction that can be incorporated into their course(s) to enhance student engagement and foster meaningful connections to content. This instructional unit will meet the Quality Blended Course Review Rubric criteria and serve as a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming blended course(s) on a Canvas site. 

Application Training:

Docusign
DocuSign is used to create and distribute forms to collect information and digital signatures. Participants will create a simple form, send it out via email for a signature, and review their collected responses. They will also create a more complex form that gathers other types of information from the respondent and requires multiple signatures.

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Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a program in the Office 365 suite used to sort, manipulate, and analyze data. Although Excel is not a database, it is often used in data analytics and finance sectors to assess large amounts of information and create visualizations.

Qualtrics
UMass Dartmouth has selected Qualtrics as our Internet survey tool. All Faculty and Staff have access to create and publish their surveys. Qualtrics offers many question types, field calculations, and complex branching.

Cancellation Policy:
Starting August 1, 2025, sessions with fewer than 10 registrations within 24 hours before the session start time may be cancelled.
Upon registering for sessions, please adhere to your commitment to attend (unless an extenuating circumstance arises) the session(s) out of respect for the learning, the presenters, and the designers who planned for the registered attendance within the session.