Academic Technology Services welcomes you to Ed Tech Week - quarterly live events and carefully curated resources around core campus technology topics to prepare you to teach with technology and discover support services at UC Davis. The live events and pre-recorded webinars can help you design your Canvas courses, develop assessments, and create and curate instructional videos. This page is also filled with selected resources to support your preparation, including links to Canvas guides, knowledge base articles, and recorded webinars on theme. Please reference whatever will be most helpful to you!
To schedule one-on-one training with an ATS instructional technologist, visit the ATS scheduler, or for a consultation with an instructional designer about integrating these technologies into your teaching, contact instructionaldesign@ucdavis.edu.
Live events
- Next Ed Tech Week events will be in January 2023 - see you then!
- Join us for monthly webinars throughout the 2022-2023 academic year about other campus-supported tools during the Ed Tech Spotlight Series!
Click to explore the resources below
Using Canvas for Teaching
Workshops on-demand
- FQ 2022 live event: Presenting Learning Materials with Canvas Modules (1:06:23)
- SQ 2022 live event: Organizing Courses with Canvas Modules (58:38)
Support documentation
- Visit the resources in the Campus Supported Tools list for Canvas
- Getting started with Canvas
- Canvas Modules overview
- Canvas Pages overview
- Canvas Syllabus overview
- Customizing Course Navigation Links
- List of Canvas Video Guides (for instructors and students)
How to get help with these tools
- Canvas 24/7 support (phone and live chat)
- UC Davis’ Canvas Help site
- IT Express: Click to submit a ticket, chat with staff, or call the Service Desk
- Schedule a Remote 1:1 Canvas Training Session
- Email canvashelp@ucdavis.edu
- IT Express: Click to submit a ticket, chat with staff, or call the Service Desk
Assessing and Grading
Workshops on-demand
- FQ 2022 live event: iClicker: Getting Started (55:11)
- WQ 2022 live event: Creating Engaging and Interactive Videos with PlayPosit (56:40)
- Grading with Canvas (recorded webinar: 52:35)
- Using Respondus for Improved Quizzing (recorded webinar: 37:36)
- Introduction to PlayPosit (recorded webinar: 59:38)
- Exploring Testing Alternatives: Promoting student learning through low-stakes assessments (recorded webinar: 1:04:45)
- TurnItIn: Getting Started (recorded webinar: 1:10:03)
Support documentation
- Visit the resources in the Campus Supported Tools list for Canvas, Gradescope, PlayPosit, Respondus, and TurnItIn
- Canvas Quizzes overview
- Canvas SpeedGrader
- Instructor iClicker documentation and support links
How to get help with these tools
- Gradescope: email help@gradescope.com
- Schedule a Remote 1:1 Gradescope Training Session
- Schedule a Remote 1:1 TurnItIn Training Session
- Schedule a Remote 1:1 iClicker Training Session
- PlayPosit: email ucdavis@playposit.org and trainers@ucdavis.edu
- IT Express: Click to submit a ticket, chat with staff, or call the Service Desk
Teaching with Video
Workshops on-demand
- FQ 2022 live event: Managing AggieVideo inside Canvas (1:01:35)
- SQ 2022 live event: Effectively reusing long or short lecture videos (using PlayPosit) (56:04)
- SQ 2022 live event: Maximizing Learning from Instructional Video (using AggieVideo) (57:55)
- What is AggieVideo? (2:00)
- Teaching with AggieVideo (recorded webinar: 1:04:52)
Support documentation
- Visit the resources in the Campus Supported Tools list for AggieVideo, Kaltura Capture, and Lecture Capture
- AggieVideo Knowledge Base articles list
How to get help with these tools
- Schedule a Remote 1:1 AggieVideo Training Session
- Email aggievideo@ucdavis.edu
- IT Express: Click to submit a ticket, chat with staff, or call the Service Desk
Finding Help
Support documentation
- Visit the resources in the Campus Supported Tools list for AggieVideo, Canvas, Gradescope, Kaltura Capture, Lecture Capture, PlayPosit, Respondus, and more!
- Campus Ready website
- Keep Teaching website
How to get help with these tools
- ATS Scheduler: Schedule one-on-one consultations about various tools
- IT Express: Click to submit a ticket, chat with staff, or call the Service Desk