Instructional Technology Services - San Diego State University

Instructional Technologies and Resources

Training & Workshops

SDSU Flexible Course Design Toolkit

For SDSU faculty who are new to hybrid/online teaching, the Flexible Course Design Toolkit offers customizable experiences to enhance online, hybrid, and blended teaching skills and knowledge. To preview the content of the Canvas course, please use this course link. To add this course to your courses, please use this enroll link.
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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 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.

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Faculty Training & Workshops

Please see the calendar below for Fall 2020 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. These presentations align with the topics covered in the CDI-Flex Quick Talks, which are catch-up conversations between Summer Institute participants about how they are applying Institute content and strategies to their pedagogical approaches in Fall 2020.

January Canvas Training Calendar

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:

Wednesday 1/6, 11am – Canvas Basics + Working Session

Friday 1/8, 11am – Setting Up Your Canvas Gradebook for Success

Friday 1/15, 11am – Homepage Design, Canvas Syllabus, Calendar, Course Schedule + Working Session

Friday 1/22, 11am – Facilitating Engaging Classes in Zoom

Friday 1/29, 11am – Enhancing Student Engagement with Interactive Video

Friday 2/5, 11am – Canvas Groups

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 ServiceNow for any ITS related training needs.

  1. Log into servicenow.sdsu.edu using your SDSUid
  2. Click on Get Help
  3. Click on your college’s/department’s help desk
  4. Select Instructional Support (ITS) as the Category
  5. Complete other required fields with as much detail as possible
  6. Click Submit

For more detailed instructions on submitting a ServiceNow incident, 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”.