 

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

 





January 09, 2026

 

 

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.

- [Canvas and more sign up](https://calendly.com/dean_redfearn/canvas-tech-tools).
- [Cidilabs DesignPLUS sign up](https://calendly.com/pauladamigella/cidi-labs-drop-in).
- [Digital Accessibility sign up](https://calendly.com/dean_redfearn/digital-accessibility).

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!