Collaborative Annotation with hypothes.is (with Dr. Nicole Blair) Did you know Canvas provides an integrated tool for shared annotation of web pages and PDF files, an activity that is often significantly more engaging and pedagogically rich than the traditional discussion forum activities? Learn how the tool works, and how students respond, in this 50-minute session […]
Canvas Module Requirements can convey expectations, enforce sequencing, and promote timely participation through allowing you to define requirements students must meet to mark a Module as complete and/or move on in a course. Requirements may include viewing items, marking items complete, submitting assignments, or achieving a minimum score.
A relatively new Canvas feature, the SpeedGrader Comment Library, allows instructors to easily save and re-use responses, routine or otherwise, across their Canvas courses.
Re-use can be a good thing! Because they have a broad overview of their feedback and comments across a course, instructors can feel ambivalent (or worse) about reusing comments and feedback for multiple students. But the reality is, as long as the comment is accurate and aligned with your grading criteria, the comment is new and useful to the individual student.
The UW Office of Information Technology and the UWT Office of Digital Learning are always here to help with your technical and pedagogical questions, respectively, but there are a plethora of resources to help you on your Canvas journey.
10/27/22 – 12:30-1:30 via Zoom – Sparking rich discussion can be even more challenging online than in the traditional classroom. In this Teaching Tip Live session, we’ll look at some ideas for prompting and structuring discussions, and even rethinking what discussion means altogether.
Let us show you how to create accessible Canvas Pages that are accessible from the beginning. It isn’t just the right thing to do, enhancing equity and inclusion—and saving time in the future—it’s the law. But we’ll focus on the first part!
In aviation, a preflight checklist is a list of tasks performed by pilots before takeoff. Based on a select few principles of the Hybrid/Online Course Development and Evaluation Rubric (despite the title, the Rubric largely applies to face-to-face classes too) and other best practices, using this checklist can help avoid needless problems before your course lifts off the virtual tarmac!
Canvas Assignments (including traditional Assignments, Graded Discussions, Quizzes, and Surveys) can be organized into groups. These are useful on their own to help students (and instructors!) keep track of coursework, but can further be used to implement “weighted” grading, which provides significantly more flexibility for instructors to implement a flexible, adaptive curriculum. Learn more in […]
Canvas’ “New Analytics” system provides more detailed information and reporting on student page view and activities within a course, grade distribution, downloadable reports and a shortcut to contacting students based on their progress. But understanding what analytic data does, and does not, represent is an important consideration. In this Tip we will take a quick […]
As the end of the quarter draws near, attention to the gradebook naturally increases. Here are a few tips to help make grading more efficient and deal with some of the gradebook’s quirks. More in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Technique series: Canvas Gradebook Tips