UTSA faculty join digital platform Canvas, preparing for fall 2023 launch

The Academic Innovation Office of Teaching, Learning & Digital Transformation (TLDT) is leading the course migration effort. Throughout the summer, staff will work to ensure faculty’s courses are moved from the current platform to Canvas. “We’ve seen how excited students are about working in Canvas, and we’re really proud of how faculty are responding to the change,” said Jonathan Gutierrez , TLDT associate director for digital transformation initiatives and strategy. “Since we opened platform access in March, more than 500 faculty members have started to become familiar with the LMS.” “We’ve seen how excited students are about working in Canvas, and we’re really proud of how faculty are responding to the change.” Canvas will be the first significant overhaul of the student and faculty digital learning experience since 2012. Its extensive features will bring an even richer experience to students’ gateway to the classroom. TLDT will host instructional sessions on five topics to promote best practices and show faculty how to leverage unique Canvas LMS features. The Canvas transition team designed the faculty classes to demonstrate specific features and, more importantly, demonstrate how to use them to promote student engagement, track progress and make time-consuming tasks easier. Topics include: […]

Click here to view original web page at www.utsa.edu