>> My team's role in this transition from ANGEL to Canvas is to support faculty and
staff as they make the jump from ANGEL to our new LMS, Canvas.
We have such a rich teaching and learning environment here at Penn State, which can
lead to really complex courses.
>> So the Instructional Support Team provides migration and conversion services as well
as consultative services.
Through our migration and conversion services, we offer anywhere from a full migration and
conversion, which would sort of be like your deluxe package -- we do everything, all the
way down to, I guess you could say, a starter package -- where we would move over a simple
quiz from ANGEL to Canvas, so piece-by-piece.
>> We also work with faculty members to make suggestions and recommendations on how to
use Canvas features to make the courses better.
So basically we do what we can to help faculty members get ready to teach in Canvas.
>> The time it takes to convert a course really depends on a few factors: the type of course,
the complexity of the course, and the information provided by the faculty member.
I would say our quickest turnaround time could be about a day up to our longest turnaround
time would be about a full week.
>> The university will be transitioning fully to Canvas by this fall so that means that
if you're interested in any of these services, now is the time to use them.
>> The faculty member could submit their course to us and we could convert everything for
them, which would be a hands-off approach, or we could be partners in the process and
we would have a conversation with them to determine how involved they would like to be.
>> All you have to do when using our service is to send in your requests, either from Canvas
liaisons or through CAR Form.
CAR stands for Conversion Assistance Requests, located at canvas.psu.edu.
Once we receive your request, we will start the migration process and contact you for
consultation.
>> People made it very easy to reach out and get help.
There was plenty of information around, plenty of opportunities to, you know, get that help
-- you know, people saying, you know, contact us or we'll line you up with Instructional
Support.
So there was a lot of -- I thought the communication on that end to let us know what our options
were and how we could get help -- that was really well done and made it easy to reach
out to get help.
>> The Instructional Support Team was really helpful in all stages of my transition from
Canvas, from not knowing where to start, to moving a course over from ANGEL to Canvas,
to then reorganizing the materials in that course.
The virtual office hours were probably the most important part for me because I got to
ask a lot of my individual questions while sharing a screen with a Canvas expert who
could point to the different things that I hadn't noticed or didn't know how to use.
>> So it's really important to take advantage of the resources that you have available to
you now.
We know faculty are very busy and it's a good opportunity to get the ball rolling, to take
advantage of the resources that are available to you and get that transition process done
now, so as we go into the fall semester you're good to go.
So Penn State has really made a lot of pretty amazing resources available to support you
throughout the transition process.
I think the best place to go is the Canvas website, canvas.psu.edu.
There you'll find information about conversion support resources, which are really nice one-on-one
services for you to help you step through your transition.
You'll also find a number of training dates available there, so if that's the sort of
format that you want you can find that there.
And if you're not really sure about what kind of support you really need, every college
and campus has a Canvas Liaison that can point you in the right direction so I certainly
encourage you to leverage those resources.