Did you know that the Canvas you use for your classes every day also allows you to schedule appointments with your students? Perhaps you hold scheduled help sessions, or have groups of students meet with you regarding a collaborative project. Whatever the case, Canvas actually allows you to add appointment times to the Canvas calendar, associate… Read more »
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Feedback, not just Grading
Good feedback creates dialogue between the instructor and student. In order to foster this dialogue, it’s important to give students feedback both early and frequently throughout the semester. Timely feedback allows students to act on the information to improve their learning while still in your course. This requires providing students with frequent opportunities to demonstrate… Read more »
Customizing Canvas to Match Your Style
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 »
A Tale of Two Tools: Creating Instructional Videos Just Got Easy
IU offers you quite a few options for creating various types of instructional media, but which ones are the simplest to use? Setting up each piece of software, testing what it can do for you, trying to get over that learning curve, and uploading it to an accessible location on the “interwebs” can take precious time… Read more »
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 »
Do you need to track attendance in your class?
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 »