Canvas offers us help in the classroom with communicating with our students, helping our students communicate with each other, sharing resources, building learning opportunities, checking in on our students learning, and more. But do you ever get the feeling that it all feels a little plain? Or that the site just doesn’t reflect you as… Read more »
Entries by Kelly Scholl
Setting up your Canvas Gradebook to match your Syllabus
Every instructor takes time to carefully construct a syllabus that works perfectly with their teaching philosophy, the course content and structure, and that takes consideration of assessment techniques. However, sometimes translating that carefully constructed syllabus into Canvas can be a challenge. The consultants at the CITL are happy to help you set up your Canvas… Read more »
I want groups of assignments to contribute to the final grade by weighted percentages
Each instructor’s Canvas course can be as unique and as different as the various course offerings available at Indiana University. This is a great feature for customization, however can also become difficult when just trying to set your gradebook to calculate the way you had envisioned. Some instructors like to assign points to assignments based… Read more »
Take Me to Your Resource
Do you have an online resource that you ask students to frequently utilize? Many students will often bookmark these resources on their own, but it’s not something you can count on. Many instructors also place a link to the reference within assignments and instruction sheets. Some instructors have used the announcements tool to send out… Read more »
Dreaming of an Ideal Way to Message Students?
You finish grading an assignment from class and realize there are 15 students who really missed the concepts. You don’t want to delay the lecture for this small percentage of students, but you also don’t want to leave them floundering. In the past you’ve made an announcement in class stating that anyone that scored less… Read more »
“I turned it in, you just didn’t get it!” & Other Canvas Assignment Excuses Foiled
Have you been thinking about accepting more online assignment submissions now that Canvas makes it so easy? Is the one thing holding you back the student that says they submitted an assignment to Canvas and you just didn’t get it or you cannot find their submission? Sometimes this frustration can make you want to go… Read more »