Obtaining a Canvas Site Through PACE

This information is intended for Extension faculty who are using PACE’s Extension Enrollment system. Going through PACE provides you with access to the IdealLogic registration system. This is the portal through which your clients (non-ONID users) will get full access to OSU Canvas.

If you haven’t already done so, submit a request to PACE to begin the registration setup for your program or course. Here’s how to do it:

1. Fill out the PACE Extension Enrollment Form located at https://pace.oregonstate.edu/extension-enrollment-form  (This is the same form you might have used to work with PACE on registration for other types of Extension classes and workshops.) 
2. PACE will review your information, and reply to you with any questions they have about your registration set-up. PACE will also create a Canvas shell for you, and email you a confirmation containing the Canvas course number and title. This can take one or two days, but they try to get your Canvas shell set up within 48 hours. You will see your new Canvas course when you log into your Canvas account. The site will be a “course shell,” essentially a blank slate in which to build your course.
3. Once the registration form is set up in Ideal-Logic and you put your content into Canvas, the course can be launched. PACE will send you a URL to the Ideal-Logic registration form that students will use to set up a student account and register for your course.  Students will then access Canvas through their Ideal-Logic student account. You can contact PACE with any questions, at pace@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-4197.

Setting Up Your Course

Setting up a course in Canvas the first time may seem daunting. To help Extension faculty hit the ground running, we are providing an OSU Extension Course Template. The template models a way to structure your course and offers guidance to add and organize your course content. The template does not prescribe course content; you can easily modify it to suit your needs.

Once you’ve viewed the Extension Course Template, you may choose to quickly import the template into your course by following these steps:

(Here also is a brief video showing the steps in this process.)

1. Go to your OSU Canvas dashboard. You can reach it by logging in with your ONID password here.
2. Click on the “Commons” button at the left side of your dashboard.
3. Now you’re in Canvas Commons. Type “Extension Course Template” in the search box.
4. Click the title “Extension Course Template” in the search results to select that template.
5. On the right side menu, select your course that you want to import the template to.
6. Click the green “Import into Course” button. (It may take a little while if your course is or large.)
7. View your course to confirm that the template was imported properly, and make any necessary adjustments.

Using the Extension Canvas Template

Use the green highlighted text in the template to guide you as you build your course. Remember to remove all of the guide text before you publish your course. You can publish by clicking the “Publish” button at the upper right of the course homepage.

Need More Help?

Click on “Help” at the lower left of any Canvas page to search the Canvas Guides, to chat live 24/7 with Canvas support or to reach the Canvas phone support hotline.

Here’s a very brief  DIY guide to building a hybrid course. It’s intended to give you access to some of the materials we’ve developed for the Extension Hybrid Initiative, and a few descriptions of tools and techniques. It’s enough to get you going without hopefully getting you in trouble!

Background Reading:

Do It Yourself Blended Course Design

Ten Questions to consider when redesigning a course for hybrid teaching and learning

Building Your Course – Course Design

Visit: https://blended.online.ucf.edu/process/building-your-course/

1. Map out your course goals, objectives and outcomes. Strive to make the objectives criterion-referenced, that is, measurable.
2. How do you start constructing a hybrid course? By working backwards from your course learning outcomes.   Please view Learning Outcomes, a 6-minute tutorial from Ecampus.
3. Learning outcomes are particularly important for students to understand the significance of online components of a hybrid course. See Objectives Builder page of the Ecampus website.
4. Align learning resources, content, activities and assessments with your course learning outcomes. An effective way to work on alignment of your course elements is to fill out a Hybrid Course Planning Chart.
5. Develop module-level learning objectives (for example, by the unit, the week, or the concept) to ensure that your content within each module is well aligned, and that your learners know what they are expected to learn within that module.
6. What learning will occur on-line? How much time? What learning will occur on-site? How much time? Developing a Mix Map will help identify theses elements.
   1. Mix Map template and instructions [Word doc; size=45kb]
   2. Mix Map completed sample [pdf file; size=24kb]
   3. Video: Oregon State University Burnett shares her Mix Map[8 min. streaming video]

Content Development

Using existing resources –

• Conduct Google Searches for relevant content for use online, including videos, podcasts, PDFs, animation, PowerPoint, etc.
• Investigate Open Educational Resources (OER) options (i.e.,org)

Creating your own learning objects

Tools:

• Screencasts (narrated or not) [i.e., Camtasia]
• Video
• Readings (PDF)
• Other websites
• Apps

BEST PRACTICE: Packaging “lectures” in 5-to-15-minute chunks–with a tightly defined focus–is a successful approach in many blended courses.

Creating your own learning modules

What is a Hybrid Learning Module?

1 – One or more measurable learning outcomes

2 – Content (subject matter/information)

3 – One or more online learning activities

4 – One or more face-to-face learning activities     

5 – Clear pathways for interaction of 3 types:

• Learner with content
• Learner-to-learner
• Learner-to-facilitator

6 – One or more assessments to gauge achievement of learning outcomes

7 – A set of directions that the facilitator and/or the learner will use as a guide to use of the hybrid learning module

• – Overall: Strong integration of face-to-face and online learning activities

See:  Frequently Asked Questions – Blended Learning

Preparing Your students for Hybrid Learning

Please take a look at

• Preparing Students for Hybrid Courses
• Student Success Strategies

While these resources are targeted toward college students, many of the pointers given here have applicability to other groups of learners of all ages.

In this video, OSU faculty share their plans to initiate hybrid approaches to their Extension programming. Hybrid offers a new normal for lifelong learning, with the potential to reach new and wider audiences. It also offers efficiency, the capacity for easy sharing of resources, and reduces travel costs associated with full on-site programming.