mêskanâs Essential 1 - Organizing your course content effectively (Online) Online
Whether you are a new faculty member, a dedicated sessional faculty, or an experienced faculty member looking to refresh your understanding of mêskanâs capabilities, this online session will show you how to create course shells with the Faculty Centre self-serve application, take you through a quick tour of how to navigate in mêskanâs, and help you upload course content files and set up activities. You will also learn about how to refine the organization of your courses; we will cover some Universal Design for Learning principles to ensure your course is accessible to learners with all abilities.
This session is prerequisite for the following session.
- mêskanâs Essential 2 - Creating and Marking Assignments
- mêskanâs Essential 3 - Creating Quizzes
- mêskanâs Essential 4 - Creating Discussion Forums
- mêskanâs Essential 5 - Using Gradebook
Session Outline:
- How to find help resources
- Finding mêskanâs
- How to create a course (sandbox or template, scheduled)
- Basic navigation
- How to perform certain basic tasks
- Useful Blocks
- Difference between Activities and Resources (interaction vs information sharing)
- Create an activity
- Create a resource
Please note that you must have an active MacEwan credential to be able to login to mêskanâs.
This online session is designed for hands-on practice. To get the most out of the experience, we recommend using a second display (or device) so you can follow along and practice in real time.
- Date:
- Monday, August 25, 2025
- Time:
- 10:00am - 11:30am
- Time Zone:
- Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- CTL-Kaltura
- Campus:
- Online
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Faculty General New Faculty (recommended)
- Categories:
- Educational Technologies mêskanâs training
