When your instructional designer copies your course from term to term, they will bring over your welcome announcement from your old course. If you would like to reuse … [Read more...]
Providing Flexibility for Students, Especially During Disruptive Times
Many students take online courses because they have obligations — work, family, health, military service — that impact their ability to attend courses on-campus. … [Read more...]
Add a Subject Line to Discussion Posts in Canvas
Subject lines in discussion posts help students scan the posts and find the ones that most interest them. Although Canvas doesn't have a built-in way to do this, it's … [Read more...]
Caption Collaborate Ultra Recordings
When recordings from Collaborate Ultra meetings are shared with students in Canvas, they should be uploaded to Canvas and captioned to meet accessibility … [Read more...]
Adding Videos in Canvas
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
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
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...]
Quick Tip: Personal Pronouns
Canvas users can now set their personal pronouns in their profile. These pronouns will display after the user's name in several places such as the discussion board, the … [Read more...]
Quick Tip: Finding Past Enrollments
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
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...]
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