Instructional Design & Online Course Support – Page 3

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 Leave a Comment

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...]

Student Group Areas in Canvas

Posted: February 28, 2019 | Last Modified: February 28, 2019 Leave a Comment

Groups in Canvas can facilitate robust student interactions because Canvas generates a group area, a small version of the course for each group. In the group area, … [Read more...]

Quick Tip: Manually Mark Discussion as Read in Canvas

Posted: February 18, 2019 | Last Modified: April 9, 2020 Leave a Comment

By default, Canvas marks discussions as read as you scroll by them. Sometimes this can create confusion if Canvas marks that you've read a reply, when actually you have … [Read more...]