How can I create a "community" for faculty to serve as a place for faculty training and development? Should I create a group or a course?
This is a place I want to provide modules focusing on various topics such as assessments, outcomes, use of Canvas, etc. to help refresh the minds of faculty and train new faculty. communities of learning
Rose, our district has many communities setup for our staff, and we use courses to do this. They are used across our distric to reach certain subsets of users: each curriculum office and school maintains a community and other district divisions like SIS and security maintain communities for staff to access resources. We have an index page where staff members can view the available communities all of of which are set up for self-enrollment so users can join and receive announcements as well as navigate back to the community easily, this also allows users to unenroll from a community if they no longer need access to it. Most of the communities are set to institutional visibility, so anyone can view them without enrolling, but we use CSS to hide the Communities index page from users who don't have a Teacher role in a course. The exception to this is our school communities, each school manually updates its enrollment (rather than use self-enrollment) and visibility is course-level rather than institutional.
Hi Rose
We tried Groups when we first got Canvas a long time ago, and found them too limiting. We use courses for that purpose now.. If you are looking for content ideas, I would suggest going to Canvas Commons. You might need to rebrand and hink some of the offerings, but it will still save you a heck of a lot of time!
Kelley