7:30am - 9:00am   Coffee & Registration

9:00am – 9:30am   Welcome and introduction to the day  

9:30am – 10:30am   Where We're Going, We Don’t Need ‘Version Control’
Speakers:  
Jim Monaco, Senior Instructional Media Specialist, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Lindsey Van Gieson, Instructional Technology Systems Manager, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

We will show how we’ve been utilizing Canvas’ API and the ability to customize our theme to solve both business and process-related problems. We’ll share how we identified a need for this, leveraged existing resources, and as always, lessons learned.  

10:30am – 10:45am   Break 

10:45am – 11:45am   Harvard Business School’s presentation on ‘Overview’ for Canvas
Speakers:  
Paul Craig, Associate Director, Learning Technology Services, Harvard Business School
Sreeja Pillai, Software Architect, Harvard Business School

11:45am – 12:00pm   Prep work for Hack Night 

We’re going to spend the remainder of the day experimenting in our Test/Dev instances of Canvas. So, before we lunch, we’ll brainstorm ideas and identify existing problems that would be good topics to break down, discuss, and maybe even solve in a small group setting. 

12:00pm – 1:00pm   Lunch 

1:00pm – 2:30pm   Hack Night in the Afternoon 

We’ll break out into small groups to try to solve the problems we brainstormed earlier in the day and show-and-tell more in-depth code and projects everyone is currently working on or dreaming up for the future. Also, if needed, we’ll do a brief introduction to Canvas’ API resources, documentation, and coding best practices for those who need it.

2:30pm – 3:00pm   Sharing Resources & Wrap Up

3:00pm   End