Instructional Design & Online Course Support – Page 3

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...]

Quick Tip: Delaying (and “Undelaying”) Announcements

Posted: September 23, 2019 | Last Modified: March 3, 2021 Leave a Comment

We've discovered a few things about how Canvas handles announcements that are vital in organizing your course and getting information to students in the way you mean to. … [Read more...]

Canvas Best Practices for Students

Posted: August 26, 2019 | Last Modified: July 15, 2021 Leave a Comment

In each of our courses, you can find the Online Course Resources tab on the course navigation bar, which will take you to a library of helpful documents about Canvas. … [Read more...]

Grade Posting Policy Use and Scenarios

Posted: July 22, 2019 | Last Modified: December 17, 2019 Leave a Comment

What are Grade Posting Policies? Did you know that you have control over when assignment grades are visible to students? By default, all assignments post … [Read more...]

Extra Credit in Canvas: Points-based Gradebook

Posted: July 1, 2019 | Last Modified: October 16, 2020 2 Comments

Offering extra credit can provide an additional challenge for students or provide them a chance to improve their score. Extra credit should be available equally to all … [Read more...]

Extra Credit in Canvas: Weighted Gradebook

Posted: June 25, 2019 | Last Modified: October 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

Offering extra credit can provide an additional challenge for students or provide them a chance to improve their score. Extra credit should be available equally to all … [Read more...]

Understanding Assignment Dates in Canvas

Posted: May 22, 2019 | Last Modified: July 29, 2019 2 Comments

All dates associated with assignments use the time zone set in the course. If the course time zone is Central time and has an assignment due at 11:59 pm, the assignment … [Read more...]

Using Kaltura Capture

Posted: April 29, 2019 | Last Modified: October 15, 2020 Leave a Comment

Use this guide after installing Capture to your computer. Click here to read about how to install Capture. Launching Capture Log into Canvas. Click Account on … [Read more...]