About our trainings
OIT offers a number of live scheduled trainings and recorded on-demand sessions to support instructors in using technology in teaching and learning. We can also facilitate customized trainings for your group or department. Scroll down to the Request Training or Consultation section to learn more. You might also visit the Center for Teaching and Learning Events website, where you'll find a wide variety of teaching-focused events.
Interested in more Canvas support? In addition to Academic Technology Consultants' trainings and consultations, visit OIT's Instructor Support page for asynchronous resources including tips for designing your course in Canvas.
Scheduled trainings & webinars
Scheduled training sessions have clearly defined learning objectives and hands-on learning opportunities. A description of each training can be found by clicking on the cards below. To ensure we have enough space for all interested, please register in advance.
Introduction to YuJa
Sept. 25 Oct. 12, 25
Vendor-hosted Webinar via Zoom
Introduction to YuJa
Sept. 25 Oct. 12, 25
Webinar via Zoom
YuJa is a video management platform that allows instructors to create and distribute video content to their students. This training will cover the basics of accessing and using the YuJa video platform. Facilitated by Diana Hernandez, YuJa Customer Success Manager. Please direct any questions to Conor Canaday (Conor.Canaday@colorado.edu).
After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Access YuJa in Canvas
- Upload existing content to the YuJa platform
- Record new content within the YuJa platform
- Edit video content in YuJa platform
- Embed YuJa media into their Canvas course
Sessions are available on:
- Monday, September 25, 2:00-3:00 p.m., Click to join this Zoom Session
- Thursday, October 12, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Click to join this Zoom Session
- Wednesday, October 25, 9:00-10:00 a.m., Click to join this Zoom Session
Playposit Playlists: A comprehensive and dynamic solution to professional learning
Sept. 21
Vendor-hosted Webinar
Playposit Playlists: A comprehensive and dynamic solution to professional learning
Sept. 21
Vendor-hosted Webinar
Let us walk you through features of Playlists that create a defragmented learner experience for one-click access to curated content, including PlayPosit bulbs, PDFs, images, docs, sheets, forms, embedded websites, and more. Learners earn a certificate after verified completion. Each Playlist can be customized to require certain behaviors like "mastery based consumption" or locked/unlocked progression..
Session available on:
- Thursday, September 21, 1:00 p.m.
Increasing Learner Engagement with Branched Learning in PlayPosit
Sept. 28
Vendor-hosted Webinar
Increasing Learner Engagement with Branched Learning in PlayPosit learning
Sept. 28
Vendor-hosted Webinar
You know how to build a bulb. Now let's make it more engaging and personalized for your learners. This session will focus on features and configurations that allow learners to jump, skip, and self-direct their way to content mastery. Features covered include jumping assessment questions, hotspots, and more.
Session available on:
- Thursday, September 28, 1:00 p.m.
Live Zoom Training Webinars
Vendor-hosted webinars
Live Zoom Training Webinars
Ongoing
Vendor-hosted Webinar via Zoom
Zoom hosts free and interactive live training webinars daily. Get up to speed in less than an hour on subjects including meeting basics, Zoom for education, planning and hosting webinars, using breakout rooms, and more.
On-demand video trainings
Some of our training sessions are available as videos to watch at your convenience.
Canvas
Teaching with Canvas
1 hour on-demand training video
This training is designed for instructors and staff who are interested in a comprehensive overview of Canvas features and functionalities. Topics covered in this 90-minute training include: course navigation, communicating with students, managing course content and the gradebook, using the calendar, using Canvas support, and more. After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Effectively navigate the Canvas system
- Communicate with students using Announcements and Inbox
- Add and organize course materials
- Create course activities with Pages, Assignments, and Discussions
- Grade student work in Canvas
- Manage and use the Canvas Calendar
Training Resources
Administering Quizzes & Exams
1.5 hour on-demand training video
This training is designed for instructors interested in delivering quizzes and exams online using the Canvas Quizzes tool. The training will cover quiz setup and functionality, available question types, and grading submitted quizzes. We will also discuss adjusting quiz settings and availability for individual students. After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Create new quizzes from scratch in Canvas
- Generate different question types in quizzes
- Configure and edit general quiz settings
- Accommodate student testing accommodations using Moderate this Quiz tool
- Grade quizzes in SpeedGrader
Training Resources:
Using Canvas Studio
1 hour on-demand training video
Canvas Studio allows instructors and students to actively collaborate through video and audio files. Studio's interface lets students and instructors engage with media content by commenting directly on the media timeline. For example, students can record themselves giving a presentation or practicing a performance, and instructors can provide feedback on specific points of the video. In this session, you will learn how to use Canvas Studio to facilitate student engagement with one another, with their instructor, and with the content they are learning. We will also review other features of Canvas Studio, such as recording screen captures, editing videos, adding in-video questions, grading Studio assignments, and more. After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Upload videos to Studio
- Record and edit new video content
- Embed Studio videos into course content
- Use commenting features to interact with and provide feedback to students
- Add quiz questions to Studio videos
- Grade Studio videos submitted via Assignments using Speedgrader
Training Resources
Assignments and Grading
1 hour on-demand training video
This training is for instructors who would like to gain comprehensive knowledge of the Canvas’ Assignments and Gradebook tools. You will learn about setting up assignments in Canvas, the Gradebook’s relationship to other tools in Canvas, methods for efficient Gradebook usage and organization, new Web Grading Sync functionality, and known limitations of the Gradebook as well as workarounds for those limitations. After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Create and manage Assignment Groups
- Create new Assignments and associated Gradebook columns
- Organize and manage the Arrange and filter Gradebook instructor view
- Understand and implement important Gradebook settings, such as Grade Posting Policy
- Utilize SpeedGrader and Rubrics tool to grade assignments
- Use Groups in Canvas to assign group assignments
Training Resources:
Canvas - Advanced
Groups and Group Assignments
7 minute on-demand training video
This training is designed for instructors and staff interested in a brief overview of groups and group assignments in Canvas. Student groups are a useful collaborative tool allowing students to work together on group assignments, group discussions, or even organize study groups. After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Create and manage Group Sets and Groups in Canvas
- Effectively navigate within student subgroups
- Create and modify Group Assignments
Module Requirements and Prerequisites
4 minute on-demand training video
This brief training is designed for instructors and staff to learn how to implement Module Requirements and Prerequisites, allowing instructors to place conditions on what content must be completed before new modules become available. After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Create and manage Module Requirements and Prerequisites
- Understand Module Requirement/Prerequisite settings, such as sequential order
Canvas Direct Share Feature
3 minute on-demand training video
This brief training is designed for instructors and staff interested in directly sharing content (modules, pages, quizzes, assignments, etc.) with an instructor without having to do a Canvas Course Export or add the instructor to the class. After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Directly send Canvas content to an instructor
- Preview and import content into a Canvas course
New Quizzes
5 minute on-demand training video
This training is designed for instructors and staff interested in a brief overview of New Quizzes in Canvas. New Quizzes is Canvas’s new quiz engine with improved features and workflow improvements, including instructor-determined partial credit on automatically graded questions. Currently, New Quizzes are not compatible with Proctorio. After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Turn on New Quizzes in a Canvas course
- Create a New Quiz in Canvas
- Configure and edit general quiz settings
Grading with Rubrics
17 minute on-demand training video
This training is designed for instructors to learn how to create and implement the Rubrics tool in a Canvas course. The training will cover creating a Rubric on an Assignment page, customizable options for Rubrics, grading using Rubrics in the SpeedGrader, calibrating Rubrics in the SpeedGrader, and making Rubrics available to students both before and after they complete an assignment. The training will also discuss various options for using Rubrics creatively in your course. After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Create and manage Rubrics in Canvas assignments
- Use Rubrics for assignment grading in the Speedgrader
- Allow students to access course Rubrics
Training Resources:
Cidi Labs
Cidi Labs Design Tools Basics
15 minute on-demand training video
This video training is designed for instructors and staff and staff seeking to create more engaging, aesthetically pleasing, and more navigable courses in Canvas. Cidi Labs Design Tools are a suite of Canvas tools that expands both aesthetic design and course navigation customization options to enhance the student experience in Canvas courses. After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Launch Design Tools and adjust settings
- Add and edit content blocks in Design Tools to structure course pages
- Apply and modify pre-designed page themes
- Add and edit navigation links
- Import existing content and page templates
Cidi Labs Design Tools Advanced
15 minute on-demand training video
This training is designed for instructors and staff interested in using advanced features in Cidi Labs Design Tools, a new suite of Canvas tools that greatly expands design customization options. This 15 minute training covers the advanced elements available in Cidi Labs Design Tools, as well its accessibility options. The “Using Cidi Labs Design Tools in Canvas Basic” training is strongly recommended as a prerequisite. After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Add expanders, accordions, and tabs
- Add module progress indicator and module list to a page
- Add module progress indicator and module list to a page
- Style lists and tables
- Format text into columns
- Add HTML snippets to a page
- Change the page design manually through the code editor
Accelerate Course Setup with Multi-Tool
15 minute on-demand training video
This training video is designed for instructors and staff who are interested in using Multi-tool for building out and bulk managing their course modules, pages, assignments, and quizzes. Multi-tool is part of the Cidi Labs Design Tools suite, which aids in creating and editing Canvas course features in bulk. By the end of this 10 minute training, you will be able to use the following features of the Multi-tool:
- Enable and access the CidiLabs Multitool within a Canvas course
- Publish a visually appealing home page using a CU Boulder template
- Create & use templates to build quickly build Canvas quizzes, pages, and assignments
- Design and implement a module template
- Apply your module design to each unit of a course
- Change due dates for assignments and quizzes en masse
Training Resources
- Cidi Labs Service Page
- Cidi Labs User Guide Canvas Course (see Multi-Tool module at the bottom)
- Cidi Labs Support Email: support@cidilabs.com
- Other Canvas Help Resources
Make Canvas Pop with Cidi Labs
1 hour on-demand training video
This training is designed for faculty and staff seeking to create more engaging, aesthetically pleasing, and easier to navigate courses in Canvas. Cidi Labs Design Tools are a suite of Canvas tools that greatly expands aesthetic design and course navigation customization options, and enhances student experience in Canvas courses. After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Use Design Tools to create intuitive home pages
- Add and edit content blocks in Design Tools to structure course pages
- Apply and modify pre-designed page themes
- Add and edit navigation Links and style images to pages
- Utilize expanders, accordions, and tabs to style content
- Use Design Tools’ accessibility tools to evaluate pages
Training Resources:
- Cidi Labs Service Page
- Cidi Labs User Guide Canvas Course
- Making Accessible Links
- Making Accessible Images
- Accessible Content Structure
- For more information or specific accessibility questions, contact the Academic Accessibility Consulting Service at digitalaccessibility@colorado.edu
- Cidi Labs Support Email: support@cidilabs.com
- Other Canvas Help Resources
PlayPosit
Quick Tips & Tricks for PlayPosit
30 minute on-demand training video
In this video you will be introduced to the ins and outs of using PlayPosit to create interactive videos. You will be shown: how to link PlayPosit to a video; how to add interactions to videos; how to review student progress, and finally, what exactly is a “Bulb” in PlayPosit.
PlayPosit Advanced Features
1 hour on-demand training video
Join the PlayPosit Instructional Design team to learn about PlayPosit's advanced features. In this 1 hour webinar, you'll learn how to adjust advanced settings to allow for branched learning, hotspots, overlays, and more! Learn to use the Rich Text Editor, adjust interaction placement and timing, and find out more about auto-grading, web embedding, and adding secondary streams. Download the PlayPosit Advanced Features Training Outline to better follow along with the training video.
PlayPosit Advanced Features Webinar
1 hour on-demand training video
In this 1 hour webinar you will learn how to use PlayPosit's advanced features, including the rich text editor, precise timing tool, autograding, web embed questions, advanced feedback options, and more Download the PlayPosit Advanced Features Checklist to better follow along with the recording
Advanced Interactions in PlayPosit
45 minute on-demand training video
This 45 minute video will show you how to create an auto-graded fill in the blank table, discuss the differences between the various advanced interaction and bulb settings, how to use analytics in PlayPosit, and go over some frequently asked questions and common use cases for PlayPosit.
App Smashing with PlayPosit
1 hour on-demand training video
App smashing is the process of using multiple apps to create projects or complete tasks. In this intermediate to advanced PlayPosit training, you will learn how to incorporate external apps into your bulbs to increase interactive learning in your videos. Learn more about App smashing with this PlayPosit playlist.
Increasing Learner Engagement with Branched Learning in PlayPosit
1 hour on-demand training video
You know how to build a bulb. Now let's make it more engaging and personalized for your learners. This session will focus on features and configurations that allow learners to jump, skip, and self-direct their way to content mastery. Features covered include jumping assessment questions, hotspots, and more.
Zoom
Zoom & Canvas Overview
5 minute on-demand training video
This brief training will go over the new Zoom and Canvas Integration. This allows instructors to schedule Zoom meetings directly from Canvas, generate attendance and polling results, utilize cloud recordings and much more. After watching this training, be sure to visit the Zoom & Canvas Integration Guide for more detail on features.
Scheduling Meetings with Zoom
< 5 minutes
Zoom offers multiple methods to schedule a meeting. A host has control over the options for their scheduled meetings, except for settings that an administrator has locked for all users. Learn how to efficiently schedule meetings in under 5 minutes with this training video and other resources!
Host/Co-host Controls in Zoom Meetings
10 minutes
This short training goes over how host controls allow you to control various aspects of a Zoom meeting, such as managing the participants. The host can share hosting privileges with a co-host, allowing the co-host to manage the administrative side of the meeting (managing participants or starting/stopping the recording) while the host presents.
Scheduling a Zoom Webinar
10 minutes
Use this training to learn how to schedule a webinar including registration. This requires your registrants to complete a brief form before receiving the link to join your webinar. Hosts can collect names, email addresses, and other information from registrants and can choose to automatically or manually approve attendees, which keeps meetings secure. Before watching, you may want to visit Zoom's Getting Started with Webinar page to learn about other features of Webinars.
Enabling Zoom Breakout Rooms
5 minutes
Breakout rooms allow you to split your Zoom meeting into up to 50 separate sessions. Meeting hosts have options to sort attendees automatically or manually, or they can allow participants to select and enter breakout sessions as they please. Watch this 5 minute video to learn how you can implement breakout rooms in your Zoom meetings or lectures.
Screen Sharing & Recording Zoom Meetings
10 minutes
In under five minutes, learn how to share an entire desktop, specific application windows, a portion of your screen, a whiteboard, device audio, and more during a Zoom meeting.
In addition, visit Zoom's Recording resources for everything you need to know about recording meetings including recording layouts, saving and sharing video, using audio transcriptions, and more!
CU Clickers
iClicker Cloud Complete Training
30 minute on-demand training video
This training will give you teach you everything you need to know before using iClicker Cloud. iClicker Cloud can also be used to poll remote students as well as students in the classroom, and integrates with Canvas, enabling students to link their iClicker remotes directly to their Canvas courses. The software is free for instructors to use, and works with student iClickers as well as the iClicker Student App. Before watching this training, we recommend ensuring you have downloaded and logged into iClicker.
You may want to look into wireless and clicker use on our Wireless Considerations page, and see if your classroom is rated for clicker use on our Classroom Frequency and Wireless Ratings page.
iClicker Cloud Polling
10 minute on-demand training video
This brief training will give you an overview for using the polling feature in iClicker. Before watching this training, we recommend ensuring you have downloaded and logged into iClicker. Additionally, you may want to look into wireless and clicker use on our Wireless Considerations page, and see if your classroom is rated for clicker use on our Classroom Frequency and Wireless Ratings page.
Other Tools
Teaching in Remote-Capable Classrooms
10 minute on-demand training video
This brief training will prepare you to use the new Remote-Capable Classroom (RCC) technology available in many of the classrooms on campus. RCC allows instructors to simultaneously deliver lectures to students physically present in the classroom as well as to students participating remotely. This training will demonstrate the Remote-Capable Classrooms to you in action. After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Connect your device to a Crestron Mercury X system in a Remote-Capable Classroom
- Run remote sessions through Zoom
- Adjust a camera, a microphone, speakers, and adapters available in the system
- Know the difference between a table mounted mercury and a cart mounter mercury<
Proctor Exams with Proctorio
1 hour on-demand training video
This training shows instructors how to install and set up Proctorio online exam proctoring service in Canvas. We discuss online exam proctoring use cases, student communications, and support resources. The training was facilitated by Kevin Schaub, instructor from the Leeds School of Business who has used Proctorio extensively in his courses and supported other instructors at Leeds.
Adding Digication ePortfolios to Curriculum
1 hour on-demand training video
This workshop will contextualize and provide an orientation to the use of ePortfolios for teaching, learning, and assessment at the course and program levels. Workshop participants will engage with the key functionalities and tools within Digication as they design an ePortfolio assignment and build an ePortfolio template for their course. This workshop includes integration points with the Canvas learning management system. Facilitated by Joan Monahan Watson, PhD, Director of Education and Implementation, Digication, Inc. After watching this session, participants will be able to:
- Define ePortfolio as a process ("folio thinking") and a product
- Describe different ways ePortfolio can be used at the course and program levels in Higher Ed
- Design an ePortfolio assignment for their course
- Utilize key tools and functionalities within Digication
- Build an ePortfolio template in Digication
- Add Digication to their Nav Bar in Canvas
- Share the template with students via the course in Canvas
- Describe what students need to do in order to make their ePortfolios available to the instructors via Canvas
Vendor trainings
Many of CU Boulder's academic technology vendors provide independent training resources. In this section, you will find links to on-demand and live training resources provided by our vendors.
Canvas Training Portal
Vendor Resource
Canvas Training Portal
Canvas offers a training resource called the Canvas Training Portal where you can participate in online training webinars or view pre-recorded training videos. Access the Canvas Training Portal through the Canvas Help Menu found at the bottom left side of the Canvas Navigation Bar.
The Training Portal will open in a new tab that asks you to authorize the training portal. Once you click “Authorize”, you will be redirected to the Training Portal Tutorial slide show. The tutorial provides useful information on navigating the portal, accessing training videos, and registering for training webinars. This tutorial will appear each time you access the portal. To disable the tutorial in the future, click “Don’t Show Again” on the final slide of the tutorial.
PlayPosit 2022 Webinar Series & Office Hours
Vendor-hosted webinars
PlayPosit 2022 Webinar Series & Office Hours
PlayPosit regularly facilitates a number of webinars covering topics including: using PlayPosit playlists, managing media libraries, flipping syllabi, and more. Visit the PlayPosit Partner Resources page for more information and sign up links.
Office Hours: PlayPosit offers open office hours every week on Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. and Thursdays at 1:30 p.m. Feel free to drop in and ask questions!
PlayPosit Academy
Vendor Resource
PlayPosit Academy
PlayPosit provides a self-directed training resource called PlayPosit Academy. It consists of step-by-step video lessons that will take you from the very basics of building an interactive video (or “Bulb”), to assigning and grading PlayPosit Bulbs in Canvas, and to advanced features of PlayPosit. You can start, stop, and pick up where you left off any time.
Please note: you may need to login to playposit.colorado.edu before using PlayPosit Academy.
VoiceThread Workshops
Vendor Resource
VoiceThread Workshops
VoiceThread offers a series of interactive workshops covering a variety of topics, including the basics of using VoiceThread and how VoiceThread integrates with Canvas. The VoiceThread Basics workshop is split into four separate hour-long sessions, and teaches attendees how to create VoiceThreads as course content, share VoiceThreads with groups and individuals, moderate comments to assess student work, and more. Workshops are facilitated by VoiceThread staff. NOTE: VoiceThread workshops are conducted through GoTo Webinars, and will require a small download before the session.
Recordings of all previous workshops are available through the VoiceThread Workshop Archive.
Zoom Learning Center
Vendor-hosted webinars
Zoom Learning Center
Visit the Zoom Learning Center for pre-recorded video tutorials of popular Zoom features, resources & FAQs for using Zoom as well as live training with experts. Zoom Learning Center also allows you to track your progress through sets of training or assign training videos to go through later.
Zoom Recorded Training Sessions
Vendor-hosted webinars
Zoom Recorded Training Sessions
Watch recordings of Zoom Trainings at any time. These recordings range from 45 minutes to one hour and cover more advanced topics than the short video tutorials. Topics include: Zoom Meetings for Education, Zoom Rooms User Training, Planning and Running Webinars.
Request a group training
OIT's Academic Technology Consultants are available to facilitate training sessions tailored to the needs of your group or department. You can schedule any of the listed predesigned sessions, or request to customize them. Academic Technology Consultants are also available to meet one-on-one with instructors, TAs, and staff.
Additional resources
Find additional support resources on the service pages of the tools supported by OIT, including webinars and on-demand trainings. Visit their service pages for more information:
