SDSU Flexible Course Design Toolkit
Canvas Support Homeroom
The Canvas Support Homeroom is a Canvas course with helpful resources regarding Canvas. This includes all the recordings of our previous ITS workshops and ITS Quick Talks and our Blackboard to Canvas Migration Guide. To preview the content of the Homeroom, please use this course link. To add this course to your courses, please use this enroll link.
Smart Classroom Trainings
If you are teaching in a Smart Classroom and need training, you may self-enroll in our online Smart Classroom Training Course. This course covers our various types of classrooms, including our new Connected Classrooms, with how-to videos and job aids on operating the equipment.
Refer to our Classroom List to determine if you are teaching in a TouchLink or Control Panel room. For information on building locations you may check the SDSU Campus Map.
For more information on classroom trainings, or to view past live workshop recordings, please visit our Smart Classroom Trainings page.
Faculty Training & Workshops
Please see the calendar below for Spring 2021 Trainings. These trainings are focused on the transition to Canvas and the tools available at SDSU. All live sessions are hosted via Zoom at sdsu.zoom.us/my/sdsucanvas.
Note: Courses marked with an asterisk (*) indicate materials could be made available for self-paced learning (without facilitation).
Workshops Calendar
Please see the calendars below to see workshops and events that are hosted for faculty and staff at SDSU. Click the events to see more details, including the location and a registration link, if applicable.
Canvas LMS Training Workshops
Modality: Time-bound, online synchronous [recordings available]
Variable Duration/Topic
Dates:
April:
Friday 4/9, 11 a.m. – Canvas: Beyond the Basics
Friday 4/16, 11 a.m. – Connected Classrooms
Friday 4/23, 11 am – Lowering the cost of your Course Materials
Friday 4/30, 11 am – Grades & Canvas to Portal
May:
Friday 5/7, 11 a.m – Quick Talk: Lessons Learned for the Post-Pandemic World
Friday 5/14, 11 a.m. – Course Archives & BB Migration
Monday-Friday, 5/17-5/21 – Canvas Moving Party/working session in Virtual FIT
Canvas Self-Paced Online Course
Modality: Self-paced, online asynchronous with facilitation
Duration: 4–6 hours Self-paced
Dates: On-going
Adapted from Canvas Pilot.
Canvas Support Homeroom
Modality: Online asynchronous
On-going Resources
Dates: On-going
Canvas Instructure Training
Modality: Self-paced, online asynchronous with facilitation
Variable Duration/Topic
Dates: On-going
Unlimited Subscription for SDSU Faculty & Staff.
Request Training
You may submit an incident via the ServiceNow Service Portal for any ITS related training needs.
- Log into servicenow.sdsu.edu using your SDSUid
- Click on Get Help | Report a Problem
- Click on your college’s/department’s help desk
- Select Instructional Support (ITS) as the Category
- Complete other required fields with as much detail as possible
- Click Submit
For more detailed instructions on submitting a ServiceNow Support Ticket, please view this ServiceNow knowledge base article.
Virtual Faculty Instructional Technology (FIT) Center
The Virtual FIT Center will be available M-TH from 8 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. The Virtual FIT Center is available via Zoom at sdsu.zoom.us/my/sdsuits or from the app by entering SDSUITS into “meeting id or personal link name”.
