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News
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- Linguistically Responsive Classrooms Instructors Series (LRCIS) returns for a second year
- Blended learning: spotlight on SFU’s newest course designation
- A one-stop teaching resource for TAs now launched: introducing the TA Hub
- Healing from Racism Journey's first year comes to a close
- Inviting TAs to share their teaching strategies
- 32nd National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
- Teaching and learning with chat tools
- Learning from remote instruction
- Lecture recording and AV support for in-person instruction
- 813,000 Zoom meetings: How IT Services handled the move to remote instruction
- National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
- Reflections on Inclusion in the Classroom Week
- Welcome to your new Zoom classroom
- Kevin Lam: “Students appreciate every little thing we do that shows that we care”
- Sheri Fabian: “I embraced a flexible approach”
- Sarah Johnson: “The biggest change I made was to switch to asynchronous delivery”
- Nicky Didicher: “I’m finding my job less exhilarating”
- Mark Lechner: “You have to be OK with things going sideways”
- Nienke van Houten: “They really valued my clear and upfront approach”
- How can we support remote instruction at SFU?
- Crowdmark: A more efficient way to grade student assessments
- The unexpected benefits of a shorter syllabus
- Photo gallery: Talking shop at Teaching Matters
- Watch the video: Faculty members discuss SFU's new instructor-led online course model
- Bridges and booster rockets: CEE's new senior director talks about teaching support
- Meet the Centre for Educational Excellence leadership team
- A biology instructor rethought her students’ role—and her own
- Photo gallery: SFU’s 24th Annual Spring TA/TM Day
- Photo gallery: SFU's 9th Annual Winter Warm-up
- If you build it, will they come?
- “My students didn’t look like they were having fun”: Three additions to the TA/TM Stories podcast series
- An upgraded Canvas Gradebook is coming in January
- Share your thoughts on the furniture in SFU classrooms
- DEMOfest presenter slides
- Photo gallery: 5th Annual DEMOfest
- Teamwork needs to be taught
- TA/TM Stories: Three new podcasts explore the teaching experiences of grad students
- Can it be done? A math instructor attempts to indigenize her course
- Answers to your questions about SFU's new approach to online education
- Photo gallery: The CEE Open House
- Do you know your faculty teaching fellow?
- Instructor-led online courses: How one faculty member prepared for the new model
- Photo gallery: SFU's 34th Annual Fall TA/TM Day draws a crowd
- Connecting people and crossing artificial divides: An interview with Elizabeth Elle
- Don't say this to your class—a student shares his experience
- How one lecturer is using podcasts to make course concepts more real in her online course
- Photo gallery: Rain, burgers and smiles at the 2019 President's Employee BBQ
- Five questions and answers about the creation of CEE
- A redesign made this course more engaging for students—and the instructor
- CPUTL: A graduate student describes her experience
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Learning and teaching technology services
The technology and media specialists in the Centre for Educational Excellence can help you take advantage of the many tools and platforms available to SFU instructors. Here are some of the technologies we support and services we provide:
- Canvas learning management system (LMS)
- Crowdmark online collaborative grading platform
- Educational media consultations
- Graphic design and image production
- Audio and video
- Open media resources
- Student response systems, a great tool for student engagement
- Turnitin, an online service for checking the originality of student papers
Watch a Canvas tutorial video
- Creating a Canvas Course Shell
- How to Import Content into a Canvas Course
- How to Add People
- Creating Student Groups and Group Assignments in Canvas
- Creating an Assignment in Canvas
- Weighted Assignments in Canvas
- How to Use the Grade Posting Policy in Canvas
- How to Set Up a Canvas Quiz as an Online Exam
- Randomizing Quiz Questions From a Question Bank in Canvas
- Finding and Uploading Icons to Canvas
- Making Buttons in Canvas
For additional written documentation, check out the Instructor Guide section of SFU’s Canvas Support website.
Other tutorial videos
Talk to someone
Use the blue “How can we help you?” button at the bottom of this page to contact the CEE support portal.
Shashi Seth (Manager, Course Production & Technologies)
John Born (Manager, Educational Media)
Learning opportunities
Check out the CEE Events page for upcoming virtual workshops.
Watch for workshops, tutorials, podcasts and more!
Media and tech consultations
Looking to set up a podcast for your course? Need some assistance designing your graphics? Get in touch with John Born (Manager, Educational Technology).
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