[ARCHIVED] How could I host a virtual professional development conference on Canvas?

[tjyoungers]

Our face-to-face conference has gone virtual and we'd like to host the learning conference on Canvas as our "conference portal".

Has anyone done this on Canvas?

Any recommendations on how to structure it?

We'd like to host all of the recorded Zoom sessions, a couple of book studies, and a Q/A forum on the Canvas portal location, for now, but open to other ideas. 

The conference participants will have access to it until the end of 2021. 

Thank you in advance for any ideas that you can share!

[GiuliaMBarbieri · Accepted solution]

Here are a few suggestions: 

• Homepage: use a nice home page to ease attendees' navigation, create buttons for each session, zoom attendee links, provide a brief overview, and specify the time for each session. 
  • How do I set a Front Page in a course?
• Modules: use individual modules of each session, in the module provide an overview about the session, speaker's bio, slides/resources, a discussion for Q&A about the session and later provide the recordings.
  • Use pages for information and content
  • Use Discussions for Q&A
  • Use Zoom Integration for Link
• Settings: considering you have an "end date", you can set the course to be concluded after that date. 
  • How do I change the start and end dates for a course section as an instructor?

I hope this helps!