TOUCH is the open hours faculty support program from the WyoCourses instructional support team of the Outreach School and the Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning. TOUCH provides faculty individualized consultations with instructional designers and technologists, and faculty mentors. After gaining a basic understanding of the features and capabilities of the Canvas system through the above and other available opportunities, bring questions of particular challenges or objectives to TOUCH. If you have a laptop, bring it along.
Now you have a shell and don't know much about advanced topics? Grading? Rubrics? Exams & Quizzes? Groups? Mobile Apps?
These workshops will help you use WyoCourses to its full capacity. Each one-hour session will give you hands on assistance using some of the advanced tools in WyoCourses. Please bring your laptop, power cord, and course materials, e.g., draft syllabi, course schedules, assignments, quizzes, etc.
Check the training calendar below for the schedule. Workshops will be held in COE 510F.
Please email wyocourses-inst@uwyo.edu with any questions.
Below find information on registering for training sessions and workshops to help you with:
The Canvas Help Center offers on-demand access to the most comprehensive training resources on the Canvas system. The selections below from their video tutorials and instructor guides are a suggested starting point for learning the instructional features and capabilities of the flexible learning management system. Apply instruction to your upcoming course, or request a test course shell.
Remember, you can enlarge the video to full screen by clicking on the four-arrow icon, bottom right of video player window. Each video tutorial is about three minutes long, with the exception of the Canvas Instructor Training series, where each of the three videos is about an hour long,
In the instructor guides, note links to related pages.
When these resources do not provide you the solution to your teaching objective, visit us at a TOUCH session, or email the WyoCourses instructional support team.
information on Touch sessions can be found in the