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Start Your Engines! Fall is Here!

The Mesa Community College Center for Teaching & Learning is offering an exciting variety of learning opportunities planned to help you start your semester out right.

Our Start-Up Learning Guide:

See our Start-Up Guide Book for descriptions and dates for more of all of our upcoming opportunities. Check our calendar for updates.

A Registration System Designed to Track Your Growth:

CTL sessions use HRMS (Time & Labor) for our registration system. The system allows for an up-to-date attendance system that integrates with your employee record and allows for wait-lists for busy sessions. Each opportunity has a unique course and session number to make it easy to identify and register for. Please feel free to contact us, ctl@mesacc.edu, if you have any questions or concerns about how to register with this new system.

Register through HRMS – http://tinyurl.com/MCCRegisterNOW

Registration Instructions HRMS – http://tinyurl.com/hrmsregister

Learning Opportunities for August 22 – August 31:

Thursday, August 22, 2013

9:00 a.m.  –  10:30 a.m. 10 Steps to Getting Started in Canvas  (C.A.F.E. Credit)

HRMS Course #001839, Section #0004; CTL AS Building – Room 175

Did you know that Canvas can benefit any course format – face-to-face, hybrid and online? Learn how to communicate with your students, post course materials/syllabus, set-up assignments and grades within Canvas in just 10 easy steps.

3:00 p.m.  –  4:30 p.m. What’s New in Canvas? (C.A.F.E. Credit)

HRMS Course #001826, Section #0003; CTL AS Building – Room 175

Explore the new features and updates to our learning management system, Canvas. Join us for a session dedicated to all things new in Canvas!

Friday, August 23, 2013

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Attending to Participation & Canvas Roll Call (C.A.F.E. Credit)

HRMS Course #001963, Section #0002; CTL AS Building – Room 175

How should we measure attendance in a course? Should it be based on a student’s physical presence, participation or a combination of both? In this session we will explore different pedagogical ways of monitoring attendance and how these may affect student success. Work with colleagues to draft an attendance policy and review the features of the NEW Roll Call tool in Canvas to help you implement it.

3:00 p.m.  –  4:30 p.m. 10 Steps to Getting Started in Canvas  (C.A.F.E. Credit)

HRMS Course #001839, Section #0005; CTL AS Building – Room 175

Did you know that Canvas can benefit any course format – face-to-face, hybrid and online? Learn how to communicate with your students, post course materials/syllabus, set-up assignments and grades within Canvas in just 10 easy steps.

Monday, August 26, 2013

9:00 a.m.  –  10:30 a.m. What’s New in Canvas? (C.A.F.E. Credit)

HRMS Course #001826, Section #0004; CTL AS Building – Room 175

Explore the new features and updates to our learning management system, Canvas. Join us for a session dedicated to all things new in Canvas!

5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Attending to Participation & Canvas Roll Call (C.A.F.E. Credit)

HRMS Course #001963, Section #0003; CTL AS Building – Room 175

How should we measure attendance in a course? Should it be based on a student’s physical presence, participation or a combination of both? In this session we will explore different pedagogical ways of monitoring attendance and how these may affect student success. Work with colleagues to draft an attendance policy and review the features of the NEW Roll Call tool in Canvas to help you implement it.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Giving Quality Feedback in Canvas (C.A.F.E. Credit)

HRMS Course #001828, Section #0004; CTL AS Building – Room 175

Quality assignment feedback is critical to student success. In this hands-on session we will explore the variety of tools available in Canvas for providing excellent and detailed feedback. Learn how to use the SpeedGrader, Rubric, Crocodoc (in-line comment tool) and Turnitin (plagiarism tool) to increase student success in your classes.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Attending to Participation & Canvas Roll Call (C.A.F.E. Credit)

HRMS Course #001963, Section #0004; Red Mountain PV Building – Room 209

How should we measure attendance in a course? Should it be based on a student’s physical presence, participation or a combination of both? In this session we will explore different pedagogical ways of monitoring attendance and how these may affect student success. Work with colleagues to draft an attendance policy and review the features of the NEW Roll Call tool in Canvas to help you implement it.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Self-Graded Assessments in Canvas (C.A.F.E. Credit)

HRMS Course #001908, Section #0002; CTL AS Building – Room 175

Canvas has a simple and automated quizzing tool that allows instructors to develop assessments using a variety of question types:  fill in the blank, multiple choice, true/false, matching, and more.  Attend this quick, focused workshop to see a variety of assessment examples of how you too can use Canvas for self-graded assessment!

Friday, August 30, 2013

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Self-Graded Assessments in Canvas (C.A.F.E. Credit)

HRMS Course #001908, Section #0003; CTL AS Building – Room 175

Canvas has a simple and automated quizzing tool that allows instructors to develop assessments using a variety of question types:  fill in the blank, multiple choice, true/false, matching, and more.  Attend this quick, focused workshop to see a variety of assessment examples of how you too can use Canvas for self-graded assessment!

Saturday, August 31, 2013

9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Giving Quality Feedback in Canvas (C.A.F.E. Credit)

HRMS Course #001828, Section #0005; CTL AS Building – Room 175

Quality assignment feedback is critical to student success. In this hands-on session we will explore the variety of tools available in Canvas for providing excellent and detailed feedback. Learn how to use the SpeedGrader, Rubric, Crocodoc (in-line comment tool) and Turnitin (plagiarism tool) to increase student success in your classes.