The process of onboarding a new LMS is a daunting task for any institution. The change affects everyone from faculty to administrators and provides a multi-faceted challenge for those dedicated to developing training to address a wide-range of user needs. Join us for a session to see how we conquered LMS onboarding.
Change is one of the most highly contested words in higher education. Change sparks fear in faculty, staff, and administrators alike, but is a necessary component to making online courses and programs both competent and competitive in a rapidly expanding market. Moving an entire institution to a new LMS is a drastic change involving mass coordination of academic support, academic departments, administrative offices, and student support; the question then becomes: how does this move happen when change is something to fear?
The movement from one LMS to another is not a change that should be feared. Rather, the move is an opportunity to embrace and try new ideas in professional development. It is a chance to use change to highlight the strengths of individual contributing units and build connections between units to create a network capable of effectively training all faculty and students to use the new LMS.
This session will specifically explore how the Center for Distance Education (CDE) at Mississippi State University tackled LMS onboarding with online and adjunct faculty, and, consequently, created a permanent resource for LMS training that is widely sought out by faculty and staff teaching all kinds of courses. We will discuss how CDE discovered the needs of online faculty by examining gaps in the institutional onboarding plan, how we tested and retested content and content delivery based on faculty observation, how we got approval and implemented our onboarding resource. Currently used by 362 online and adjunct faculty at Mississippi State University, we have had so much success with this portal that our traditional course faculty have requested access. Additionally, we will discuss our future plans for where we intend to take this resource now that it has become a permanent fixture.
This session will work like a show-and-tell with our onboarding resource—the CIP (Canvas Information Portal) – being what is shown. After the introduction, session attendees will be given a guided tour of the CIP in its current state and will be free to ask questions, discuss what they see, or provide critiques. After the tour, attendees will be engaged in a discussion as to how they can create a portal of their own.
Our goal for this session is for attendees to be able to identify the LMS training needs at their institution. They will be able to decide training topics that are thoroughly covered, and which topics need more information provided. Lastly, they will be able to plan how to gain support and work with other units to create a portal.
Change is one of the most highly contested words in higher education. Change sparks fear in faculty, staff, and administrators alike, but is a necessary component to making online courses and programs both competent and competitive in a rapidly expanding market. Moving an entire institution to a new LMS is a drastic change involving mass coordination of academic support, academic departments, administrative offices, and student support; the question then becomes: how does this move happen when change is something to fear?
The movement from one LMS to another is not a change that should be feared. Rather, the move is an opportunity to embrace and try new ideas in professional development. It is a chance to use change to highlight the strengths of individual contributing units and build connections between units to create a network capable of effectively training all faculty and students to use the new LMS.
This session will specifically explore how the Center for Distance Education (CDE) at Mississippi State University tackled LMS onboarding with online and adjunct faculty, and, consequently, created a permanent resource for LMS training that is widely sought out by faculty and staff teaching all kinds of courses. We will discuss how CDE discovered the needs of online faculty by examining gaps in the institutional onboarding plan, how we tested and retested content and content delivery based on faculty observation, how we got approval and implemented our onboarding resource. Currently used by 362 online and adjunct faculty at Mississippi State University, we have had so much success with this portal that our traditional course faculty have requested access. Additionally, we will discuss our future plans for where we intend to take this resource now that it has become a permanent fixture.
This session will work like a show-and-tell with our onboarding resource—the CIP (Canvas Information Portal) – being what is shown. After the introduction, session attendees will be given a guided tour of the CIP in its current state and will be free to ask questions, discuss what they see, or provide critiques. After the tour, attendees will be engaged in a discussion as to how they can create a portal of their own.
Our goal for this session is for attendees to be able to identify the LMS training needs at their institution. They will be able to decide training topics that are thoroughly covered, and which topics need more information provided. Lastly, they will be able to plan how to gain support and work with other units to create a portal.