Instructional Design & Online Course Support – Page 2

Adding Videos in Canvas

Posted: October 1, 2020 | Last Modified: June 1, 2022 Leave a Comment

Students and instructors have a few options for how to record videos for their courses. Those options are below, but first let’s cover a few terms to get oriented to our … [Read more...]

Quick Tip: Using Fudge Points to Fix a Gradebook Bug

Posted: April 7, 2020 | Last Modified: March 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

On occasion, a student may report that they submitted a quiz and received a grade, but their score isn't recorded in Grades. Luckily, this bug is easy to fix using these … [Read more...]

Quick Tip: Edit your Canvas Profile

Posted: April 2, 2020 | Last Modified: March 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

Setting up your Canvas profile is one of the first things you should do before you teach on Canvas. You can add a short bio about yourself and upload a picture so … [Read more...]

TILT Your Assignment Prompts

Posted: March 31, 2020 | Last Modified: October 21, 2020 Leave a Comment

Assignment directions can often prove difficult for students to follow in online learning. Students don’t always ask when they have questions, and they can’t just hang … [Read more...]

Quick Tip: Finding Past Enrollments

Posted: March 30, 2020 | Last Modified: March 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

When your course concludes, Canvas automatically moves it out of your Dashboard, but it's not gone forever. To locate courses from previous semesters: Click … [Read more...]

Instructors: Assignments Using Turnitin

Posted: December 18, 2019 | Last Modified: October 15, 2020 Leave a Comment

Turnitin (Tii) is a “similarity check” tool that you can enable in Canvas assignments. Tii identifies text in student papers that matches against the text in websites, … [Read more...]

Students: Assignments Using TurnItIn

Posted: December 2, 2019 | Last Modified: December 18, 2019 Leave a Comment

Your instructor may have enabled TurnItIn (Tii) on one or more of your assignments for a course. This application is used to help you understand more about your writing … [Read more...]

Quick Tip: Where’s My Feedback?

Posted: November 20, 2019 | Last Modified: October 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

As a student, you can see all your feedback from the Grades tab when viewing on a browser. The score will display automatically, but you will need to click on the icons … [Read more...]

Canvas Student Tip: Canvas App. vs Browser

Posted: November 5, 2019 | Last Modified: April 21, 2020 1 Comment

Using Canvas Canvas offers two ways to access your courses – a mobile app or web browser. Accessing the Canvas website on a desktop or laptop with a compatible browser … [Read more...]