Whether it's your first time using Canvas, or you just need a quick refresh to start the academic year, join us for a support session dedicated to helping you navigate our campus LMS ("Learning Management System").
We'll provide a quick "Canvas 101" overview (including tips and shortcuts) and then spend time answering questions, getting you on track to build your course, facilitate online student learning, and more!
REGISTER & ACCESS EVENT
Meet your facilitator
Ashlie Kauffman Sarsgard, Educational Technology Specialist
Ashlie has worked in the education and training field for over twenty-five years, with the majority of that time serving higher ed and adult learners. Though her main expertise is in instructional design, online program development, and higher ed educational technology, she has also worked as a web producer and Pre-K–12 educational product and curriculum developer, has taught language arts at the K–12 level, and has also taught introductory and advanced composition, creative writing, copywriting, and writing for health professions to college and adult learners. She loves learning and teaching, and has strong interests in equity, accessibility, social justice, and student-centered, inclusive learning.
Ashlie serves as a co-lead of a higher education DEI Collaborative, working with individuals from over 70 institutions to annotate a repository of inclusive teaching practices and help infuse DEI into course quality standards. Ashlie holds an MFA in poetry from NYU, an MA in fiction from Johns Hopkins, and an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland College Park. She has spent most of her life in Baltimore and New York and moved to Portland in 2020.
This event is open to Portland State University instructors and staff.
The Office of Academic Innovation is committed to making our events accessible to all Portland State University faculty and staff. If you require an accommodation or service to participate, please contact us at oai@pdx.edu at least 7 days prior to the event.
How to access the event Zoom link:
The Zoom link can be accessed here on the event page where it says Access Event and through your confirmation email. Here are instructions on how to find both!
Contact OAI with any questions!
If you need assistance getting into our event or have any questions, please contact the Office of Academic Innovation front desk at oai@pdx.edu.