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Canvas Basics Training – Spring 2024

Join us for Wharton Canvas Basics Training! What is Canvas Basics Are a new Wharton Teaching Assistant (TA)*? Or a faculty/staff member who would like a refresher on the basics of Canvas? Then, join us for a Canvas Basics Training session! One of our Canvas experts from the Wharton IDEA...Read More

Faculty Webinars (Spring 2024 Version)

Join us for our Courseware Team faculty webinars (Spring 2024)! As we enter our spring-time era, Wharton Courseware offers the following faculty-focused webinars and in-person events to share teaching tools and best practices. All teaching team members and staff are welcome to attend. Recordings of each session will be shared...Read More

Faculty Webinars – Fall 2023

The Courseware Team is launching our Fall 2023 webinar series! This Fall, Wharton Courseware offers the following faculty-focused webinars and in-person events to share teaching tools and best practices. All teaching team members and staff are welcome to attend. If you are interested in attending, please register for a session....Read More

Which Canvas Tool Is Right for My Exam?

Canvas can make administering and grading online exams easier, but how do you know which tool is right for your exam? When considering the type of exam you will be giving, it’s important to understand the features and limitations of the current assessment tools. New Quizzes Use New Quizzes as the default ...Read More

Spring 2023 Faculty Webinars

The Courseware Team is launching our Spring 2023 webinar series! If you are interested in attending, register for a session. After each session, recordings will be shared with all registrants, so please register even if you can’t make it to the live session. Please contact the Courseware Team at courseware@wharton.upenn.edu...Read More

Fall 2022 Faculty Webinars

The Courseware Team has been hosting a series of Zoom webinars for faculty in Fall of 2022. We're looking forward to bringing you more in 2023! Previous Webinars How to Have a Well-Designed Canvas Site Description: Improve the accessibility, navigation, and overall effectiveness of your course site with simple techniques...Read More

FeedbackFruits Tool Suite

As FeedbackFruits’ suite of both asynchronous and synchronous tools are used across undergraduate, MBA, Executive Education, and MBA Program for Executives (WEMBA) levels at Wharton, this blog post serves to point you in the right direction when selecting a tool for many different assignment types. The decision tree shown below ...Read More

Collaborate in Color: Enhance Your Course Conversations using Ed Discussion

As we continue a hybrid approach to teaching and learning where much of the collaboration is remote, the search for educational technology tools that best meet this need while fostering course engagement for faculty and students alike is ongoing. One tool that serves to organize discussion threads, Q&As, and additional ...Read More

Seven Steps for Making Your Canvas Course More Accessible

Diversity and inclusion are central to Penn’s mission, and as such, the University pledges to ensure its online course materials are accessible to the widest array of students. Creating an accessible Canvas site is easy to do when you apply principles of good design. The following steps can help make sure ...Read More

Courseware Team Presents: Lunchtime Webinars

Beginning in November 2020 and continuing through spring 2021, the Courseware team held a series of webinars open to all Wharton instructors and teaching team members. Check out below to watch the full webinar videos. New Quizzes for Final Exams Learn how to build exams with New Quizzes. We cover the new ...Read More