Join Us For CanInnovate

CanInnvoate is a free, one-day online conference made specifically for California Community College faculty and staff. The event is sponsored by the CCC Online Education Initiative, the Online Network of Educators, and Canvas's Instructure. 

Although the event is available remotely, Clovis Community College is hosting an on-campus viewing party open to anyone interested in attending. In addition to streaming the sessions, on-campus attendees will get a chance to reflect at the end of each session and work with a Canvas expert to implement any of the strategies presented during the sessions. On campus attendees who sign in at each session will be eligible to win a copy of Online Teaching at its Best or The Online Teaching Survival Guide.

Clovis Community College D.E. advisors chose sessions that we think will help both distance education and face-to-face faculty, and faculty who have a range of Canvas skills. 

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Schedule

9:00AM - 9:50AM - A Student's Perspective on Education Empowerment 

Natalie Miller 

Connecting with your online students may feel challenging, but it doesn't have to be. In my presentation, I will share my journey in online courses as a student, share what I have discovered about the online classroom while working at College of the Canyons, and help you discover ways that will make online students want to work harder. 

10:00AM - 10:50AM - From Blah to Bling: Building an Equity-Minded Syllabus

Fabiola Torres

Begin to build a syllabus from an equity minded approach. Using Canvas and Equity-Minded frameworks, experience a syllabus transformation demo from Blah to Bling. 

11:00AM - 11:50AM - The New Canvas Gradebook, Presented by CCC Beta Testers

Liz du Plessis, Sylvia Amito'elau, Wendy Bass

Learn about the New Gradebook from three beta testers in the California Community College system. The session will include: a demonstration of the New Gradebook and how to get started. Beta testing results of the CCMS Gradebook work group and lessons learned. An opportunity for participants who have used the New Gradebook to present feedback. A Canvas representative will be available during the session to answer questions. 

12:OOPM-12:50PM - Quick! Add Video to your Canvas Course

Mirla Garcia

Learn how to easily and quickly add video to your course from within Canvas using 3C Media Solutions (a project of CCC TechConnect, funded by the CCCCO). How to store, share, and embed your media within Canvas to provide easy access to your students or peers will be demonstrated along with other features / benefits, how campuses are using and reacting to the tools, and how the tools are contributing to student success.

1:00PM - 1:50PM - Surprise! Good Things Happen When Students Get Creative

Laura Gibbs

When you design your courses with open-ended assignments, students will surprise themselves, and you, with their creative, original work. In this presentation, I will outline different options for including open-ended assignments in any kind of class, along with strategies for "feedforward" assessments that encourage risk-taking and revision. 

2:00PM - 2:50PM - Precious Panda Pointers

Sylvia Amito'elau

Participants will oooh and awe as many precious pointers will be demonstrated in a Canvas course. Discover tools and settings that have been in Canvas all along but perhaps you didn't have the force to find them. These pointers will help you make your course more usable, accessible, agreeable, and adorable. This session is for all levels of Canvas users: from the Padawan Panda up to the Master Panda. 

3:00PM - 3:50PM - ACCJC Determination of Regular and Effective Contact

Lisa Beach

How do accreditation teams determine whether regular and substantive interaction is happening in online courses? Evidence suggests that different teams may have very different ideas about how to do this. Let's talk about how we might be able to add some structure and equality to that process, and how we can ensure that the ACCJC gets what they need while protecting the privacy rights of faculty and students. 

4:00PM - 4:50PM - Stump the Panda

Erin Wasson, Erin Keefe

This is an open-ended session hosted by one of Instructure's Canvas experts. You'll be invited to ask your most pressing "How do I..." questions and learn a ton in a very short time.