Faculty Drop-in Sessions for Canvas, Cidilabs, & Digital Accessibility

With two weeks till spring term, we are offering a series of course prep drop-in sessions over Zoom.

  • Canvas and more: getting the most out of Canvas and our suite of instructional tools.
    • Tuesday, January 13: 1 PM
    • Wednesday, January 21: 11 AM
  • Cidilabs DesignPLUS: designing or upgrading your course site to look and feel great.
    • Wednesday, January 14: 10 AM
    • Tuesday, January 20: 2 PM
  • Digital Accessibility: how to ensure your course complies with Harvard’s renewed policy.
    • Thursday, January 15: 10 AM
    • Thursday, January 22: 2 PM

To attend, simply sign up using these links. A Zoom link and calendar invitation will be sent to you.

Need more details?

Canvas and more:

  • Anything in Canvas or our tool suite that you’d like to learn more about or use more effectively.
  • Discuss new features! For example:
    • Harmonize, our robust discussion and communication integration, has a new peer review assignment feature.
    • Differentiation tags: a new and powerful way to organize students in Canvas.

Cidilabs DesignPLUS (Students love Harvard branding, what can we say?):

  • How to make your course site visually engaging while maintaining digital accessibility standards.
  • How to use and build with our school template.

Digital accessibility:

  • How to ensure your course materials and Canvas site comply with required accessibility standards.
  • How to develop remediation plans if you have a backlog of materials that need attention.

We are also available for consultation at any other time via canvas@gse.harvard.edu.

We hope to see some of you at our sessions! Have a wonderful semester!