Many law schools have moved from legacy learning management systems (i.e., Blackboard, Moodle, TWEN) to Canvas over the last few years. This has happened while law school libraries have moved away from traditional service desk models and an increased expectation that law librarians serve a more formal teaching function either in first-year legal writing and research curriculum or in upper-division advanced legal research courses. Many law schools have been experimenting with topical legal research, or legal technology, courses that may be offered as a single-unit short course. This conference session will discuss how Canvas can be effectively utilized to teach these short courses.
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