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 request support from an ATS educational technologist, contact trainers@ucdavis.edu, or for a consultation with an instructional designer about integrating these technologies into your teaching, contact instructionaldesign@ucdavis.edu.
Click to explore the resources below
Using Canvas for Teaching
Workshops on-demand
- Organizing Course Materials with Canvas Modules (1:08:59) (from WQ 2023)
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
- Getting Started with Piazza (51:12) (from WQ 2023)
- iClicker: Getting Started (55:11) (from FQ 2022)
- Creating Engaging and Interactive Videos with PlayPosit (56:40) (from WQ 2022)
- Grading with Canvas (52:35)
- Using Respondus for Improved Quizzing (37:36)
- Introduction to PlayPosit (59:38)
- Exploring Testing Alternatives: Promoting student learning through low-stakes assessments (1:04:45)
- TurnItIn: Getting Started (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
- Maximizing Learning from Instructional Video (1:02:43) (from WQ 2023)
- Managing AggieVideo inside Canvas (1:01:35) (from FQ 2022)
- Effectively reusing long or short lecture videos (using PlayPosit) (56:04) (from SQ 2022)
- What is AggieVideo? (2:00)
- Teaching with AggieVideo (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
Workshops on-demand
- Navigating Ed Tech Support at UC Davis (26:29) (from SQ 2023)
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