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.
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Canvas Self-Help Resources
Alignment connects a course together from the broadest objectives to the most granular activities. Creating an aligned curriculum facilitates strategic thinking, ensuring—to the extent possible—that everything we and our students do is in service of a particular course’s learning goals.
In this Teaching Tip, you will learn to:
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Fundamentals of Learning Objectives & Alignment
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.
In this Teaching Tip Live session we showed you how easy it is 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!
Even in non-pandemic times, providing virtual office hours can be an excellent way to support your students, but they are practically required. A little planning can make them more productive for teachers and learners alike, while increasing opportunities for valuable faculty-student interactions. Oh, and try to avoid using your personal Zoom meeting room for office hours!
Learn more in most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Online Office Hours That Work.
A new term commemorates not just the debut of your shiny new syllabus, but initiates the routine chorus of reminding students, “it’s in the syllabus!” These strategies for promoting syllabus engagement might allow you to start singing a whole new tune.
More in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Syllabus, Engage!
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 look at the basics of New Analytics and some resources to explore further: Using Canvas (New) Analytics
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
As of the date of this Tip’s publication, UW IT plans to roll out Canvas’ New Rich Content Editor on December 28th, with the option to try it out any time before then. This is a good thing: the new editor boasts a number of welcome improvements with few challenging interface changes. In this Tip we will share some major new features and improvements you can expect, as well as the most significant changes to the editing experience you should be aware of.
More in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Technique series: Meet Canvas’ New Rich Content Editor
Collecting mid-term feedback from your students about their learning experience is a quick method to gain insights about your class that will help you make meaningful change within the same term. This is an invaluable practice for any class, but particularly during the challenging times of Coronavirus.
There are many approaches to feedback and correction, some more complicated than others, but a basic four-step process is simple enough to allow you to move quickly: decide on your questions, create the feedback mechanism, consider the feedback, and implement the changes.
More in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Technique series: Mid-Term Feedback and Course Correction
