Do you have lots of course cards that you wish you could combine to make managing your classes easier in Canvas? Some situations where this may be useful are:
For more details on cross-listing, check out the "Canvas Guide: How do I cross-list a section in a course as an instructor?".
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THE COACHING HABIT: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever BY Michael Bungay StanierABOUT THE BOOKIn Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact. Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples' potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how--by saying less and asking more--you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.
3-2-1 REFLECTIONThe idea of coaching is daunting to me, especially in education. As teachers, we get very set in our own way of doing things. So many coaching cycles are formal with an observation, debrief, planning, work, another observation, plus debrief. I totally understand the cycle, but so much of my "coaching" is just conversations. What I love about this book is that it breaks the coaching habit down in to simply question more, and giving advice less. So often, I jump in to help, solve, and do for my teachers. 3 LESSONS I LEARNED
2 IDEAS I'M PONDERING
1 GOAL I HAVE
You may or may not have read my post about a Coaching Choice Board here. There was this great post and template provided by Pam Huebler that I customized for myself and made my own. I have to admit though...I put the time into making my own version, but have not implemented it. Again, I love the concept. I love how it really makes me nail down what I want to offer for the teachers I support. In these past few weeks of getting the school year started, my meetings with teachers have been non-stop. But scheduling those meetings has been time consuming. The back-and-forth of figuring out availability is inefficient. That coaching choice board had a "menu of services" and then a Google form for collecting the request, and then I would have to schedule the meeting. With Calendly, I've found a tool to combine those steps into one. Teachers can select the "service," see my availability which syncs with my Outlook calendar, and schedule all in one step with no back-and-forth. The deciding factor for choosing Calendly was the Zoom integration. If a teacher chooses to meet over Zoom, Calendly creates the Zoom link and puts it in the calendar appointment for us. I chose the paid version of Calendly to get the different types of meetings and the Zoom integration. With the free version, you get one meeting type (as opposed to the many you see in the image above). They do offer a 25% educator discount. If you're looking for something similar and free, another option is Appointlet. I have my Calendly link in my email signature and am including it with my weekly newsletters. I hope to get more meetings with teachers by making the process of scheduling time with me more efficient. I'll evaluate at the end of the month to determine if this is worth the cost for me in this position. If not, I'll go down to the free version or switch platforms. While my focus is having teachers schedule time with me, I have also recently seen teachers using Calendly for students to schedule time with them. Check out this tweet by Amanda Sandoval and all the comments from other teachers doing the same. **UPDATE 9/30/2020** So, I've decided that the various meeting types isn't as important as I thought. At then end of my paid month, I have reverted back to the free version with one meeting type since it still includes the Zoom integration. I a also now sharing the link specifically to that meeting type, which looks like this... I love how Calendly has made it so simple for teachers to schedule time with me. It has eliminated the back and forth of finding a time that works for both of us. And because teachers are defining the goal of our meeting when they schedule it, I am still able to get the information I need to prepare for our time together.
Canvas Blueprints can be a lifesaver or a pain in the you know what! A blueprint course allows you to create content and learning objects, lock specific settings or content items, and push updates to all associated courses through course syncing. On our campus, PLC teams use blueprint courses to create common content and push out to the individual teacher's course for consistency and to save time. There's no point in four different teachers doing the same task separately when you can do it once for everyone on the team. The drawback is that sync between the blueprint and the yearly courses can be broken by editing in the yearly course. This often causes lots of frustration and wasted time and energy. When you think you've got your course ready to go only to find out that you're missing an update because of a broken sync,...well, it is frustrating. Is your yearly course no longer updating when you sync changes from the blueprint? Guess what?! We can recover the sync by locking pages! Let me show you how in today’s Minute Monday! A few things to consider before locking pages:
Blueprints are not the best solution for everyone or every situation. Not all Canvas courses need blueprints. I seriously love blueprints when working as a team that seeks continuity between courses. Knowing this little tip can be a lifesaver for your common content and learning objects! |
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