Instructional Design & Online Course Support – Page 3

Instructors: Assignments Using Turnitin

Posted: December 18, 2019 | Last Modified: November 5, 2024

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: January 25, 2024

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: January 25, 2024

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: January 25, 2024

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: January 25, 2024

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: January 25, 2024

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: January 25, 2024

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: January 25, 2024

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: February 15, 2024

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: January 25, 2024

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...]