Reduce first day jitters for yourself by visiting your assigned classroom in the next couple of weeks. Log into the instructor station, practice projecting on the screen, put on and test the microphone, adjust volume if you plan to show video clips, check the lighting and furniture arrangements in the space, practice circulating around the… Read more »
Entries by Megan DeMoss
Quick Tip: TidyUP your Canvas course!
Digital clutter robs our brains of time and mental energy as we rifle through old files, assignments, and quizzes that we keep around “just in case” we want to use them again. Schedules from past semesters, files attached to announcements, outdated readings for which you have now found more recent and relevant replacements. It can… Read more »
Finishing Students’ Grades in Canvas
The end of the semester is quickly approaching. As you are receiving students’ final papers and projects or grading exams, you want to make sure the grade that students see in Canvas is the same as the one you expect to report to the registrar through the SIS Grade Roster tool. Here are some details… Read more »
Canvas New Quizzes Overview and How Spaced Practice is Supported
New Quizzes is Canvas’ latest quiz engine that offers instructors four new question types and several features and improvements that instructors have requested for years. New question types and examples Categorization: Place the following organisms into five kingdoms based on their characteristics: Amoeba, Mushroom, Fern, E. coli, Dog The instructor would provide the category names… Read more »
How Soon Should Canvas Grades Post?
You spent and will continue to spend a lot of time setting up your assignments, quizzes, modules, and more in Canvas. While it’s true that once you create and assign a graded item, that item then has its own column in the gradebook, have you checked your Gradebook Settings to make sure grades are posting… Read more »
Quick Tip: Canvas Updates – Bulk Publish/Unpublish Modules and New Quizzes
As you are preparing your Canvas sites for the fall, you are probably creating Modules to organize your weekly or unit content. Now you can publish or unpublish all your Modules and the items in those Modules at once. When you go to Modules in your Canvas site, you’ll see a Publish All button with… Read more »