Register for the following sessions to:
- Test your classroom technology before the first day of class
- Learn more about Canvas and interactive technologies
- Explore inclusive teaching practices
UMD Classroom Reconnect Sessions
Join Academic Technologists for 60-minute drop-in UMD Classroom Reconnect Sessions to test classroom technologies.
New to Canvas Sessions
Learn more about how to use Canvas for the first time, set up or enhance a Canvas Gradebook, or sign up to improve various functionalities in a Canvas site during a Canvas Clinic.
- Virtual Canvas Clinic: August 23, 9 a.m.
- Canvas Gradebook: Set Up September 7, 10 a.m.
- Canvas Essentials: September 10, 10 a.m.
Enhancing Canvas
Instructors who want to explore advanced features and strategies can explore the following options:
- Eight Innovative Uses for Multiple Choice Questions: August 17, 11:30 a.m.
- Tune up your course site with a start of semester checklist: August 30, 11 p.m.
- Rubrics, Grading, and Feedback: August 31, 1 p.m.
Teaching with Technology Retreat: (August 22 - 25).
Participate in the Teaching with Technology Retreat or register for specific sessions.
- Enhance Your Syllabus and Welcome Students: August 22, 1 - 4 p.m.
- Organize Your Canvas Site for Easy Navigation: August 23, 1 - 4 p.m.
- Create (or Revise) Online Assessments & Assignments: August 24, 1 - 4 p.m.
- Engaging Online Community & Communication: August 25, 1- 4 p.m.
New Interactive Tools
Explore third party learning technologies and software packages that can enhance the student experience.
- Teach with Story Maps: August 17, 11 a.m.
Hypothesis Social Annotation
Hypothesis is a Canvas Learning tool licensed for UMD by ITSS for Academic Year 22-23. Hypothesis enables sentence-level note taking or critique on top of digital readings (PDF or websites), which can lead to interactive discussions, searchable text, and social tagging of reading. Several Hypothesis workshops have been planned for UMD and UMN-Twin Cities instructors Fall 2022.
Register to sign up or to have the recording sent to you.
- September 1, 11:30 a.m. Hypothesis Webinar
- September 13, 3:00 p.m. Hypothesis Webinar
- September 26, 12:00 p.m. Hypothesis Webinar
Inclusivity in Teaching and Learning Environments
The following sessions are led by UMN teaching support partners and address a broad spectrum of teaching and learning environments.
- Honoring Neurodiversity Planning for Effective Accessible Learning: August 18, 10 a.m.
- Making a Good First Impression Planning a Successful First Day of Class: August 23, 10 a.m.
- Teaching to Support 2SLGBTQIA+ Students: August 23, 1 p.m.
- Leveraging Interactions for Intercultural Learning: August 24, 2:30 p.m.
- Vocal Strategies to Improve Clarity in Teaching: August 25, 2:30 p.m.
- Finalizing Your Syllabus - Moving from Ready to Remarkable - and Accessible: August 25, 1 p.m.
- Which Teaching Practices are (and aren't) Supported by Pedagogical Literature?: August 29, 12:30 p.m.
- Design Teaching & Learning that Supports Student Mental Health: August 31, 11:30 a.m.
- Transparent Assignment Design: August 31, 2:30 p.m.
- Supporting Content Delivery and Student Interactions: September 1, 2:30 p.m.
- Introduction to Anti-Racist Pedagogy at a Predominantly White Institution: September 1, 2:30 p.m.
For ideas about enhancing inclusive course design through technologies or online Canvas site design, contact ITSS for a course design consultation.
UMD's Academic Technology Services
For additional questions on incorporating inclusive design practices into your Canvas site, designing online learning activities, or incorporating multimedia into your site, contact our ITSS Academic Technology and Course Design team.
- Academic Technology Assistants
- Academic Technology Assistants offer a first level of support for technical issues regarding Canvas, Kaltura, and other teaching and learning tools.
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: (218) 726-8862
- Academic Technology Support Appointments
- Schedule an Academic Technology Appointment to explore how to use Canvas or other academic technologies.
- Academic Technology Drop-in
- Drop-in to ask questions, ideas, needs etc. related to the technologies for teaching and learning.
- Course Design Consultations
- Request a course design consultation to plan, organize, design, re-design, or incorporate multimedia into courses.
- Media Hub
- The ITSS Media Hub in Kathryn A. Martin Library 121 lends production equipment and provides support for media-based academic and research projects.
Subscribe and Be Informed
Subscribe to UMD Educational Technology Announcements to receive timely emails with information about upcoming events, opportunities, and technologies available to UMD educators.
Subscribe to the monthly System-Wide Teaching with Technology newsletter for:
- Updates about the Canvas, Zoom, Kaltura, and other learning tools
- Strategies for teaching and learning with technology
- Tips and tricks on how to use technology tools efficiently and effectively
- Engagement and learning opportunities