Canvas has an Attendance tool that you can use to indicate whether a student was present, absent or late. Some instructors use this tool to track participation in class by giving partial credit to those who are not active during a class session. You can also opt to give students partial credit if they are… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Are you concerned that your students will plagiarize? Do you know that there are powerful ways to combat common reasons why students plagiarize? Assignment scaffolding can help students avoid time management problems by providing intermediate deadlines to help them work toward a final project. Careful assignment design can help mitigate students’ feeling that they lack the… Read more »
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 »