Canvas
2023 State of Student Success and Engagement in Higher Education
Instructure, the company that created Canvas, has released the report: The 2023 State of Student Success and Engagement in Higher Education. They worked with Hanover Research to field a survey in 17 countries, asking for the perspectives of 6,100 current students, administrators, and faculty from 2-year, 4-year, public, and private higher education institutions in order to answer… Read more »
Quick Tip: Canvas Checklist
This Start of Semester Checklist for Canvas, adapted from the University of North Texas, is comprised of pointers, reminders, and resources, useful for setting up a course in Canvas. The document has four sections: Canvas Setup – Contains reminders on how to complete task such as how to import a course from previous semesters or move section enrollments from individual… Read more »
20 tips for using Canvas
The tips mentioned below were compiled by a fellow Google Certified Innovator based on surveying educators about the features they found most useful for using Canvas. The site https://ditchthattextbook.com/canvas-lms-tips/ provides more detailed resources for each of the 20 tips listed below. For example, if we look at Tip 12 we see: Email/message based on assignment completion. I… Read more »
PlayPosit
You may have noticed an announcement when you logged into Canvas last month that announced that IU has a license for PlayPosit. But what is it? It is a platform that allows you to add interactive elements such as questions and discussions into YouTube, Vimeo, and videos you create, as well as audio files. You… Read more »
Communicating with your Students
Like us, students get a lot of messages in their inbox, which leads to students’ eyes glazing over, and then our messages get lost in the mix. How can we avoid that? Set up a consistent communication protocol that is shared with students the first week and then stick to it. Here’s an example: Once… Read more »
Canvas Chat
For a low-tech method that you can use outside of Zoom, perhaps for office hours, try the Canvas Chat feature. It’s not very complicated, but you can have it turned on in your class to use as an option for virtual office hours or for a quick full-class brainstorm. When enabled in the course Navigation… Read more »
Canvas Grading Tips
The following tips are intended to help answer some of the most popular grading questions that come up at the end of the year. These tips may be new to some and serve as reminders to others. (approx. 3-minute read) If you are dropping the lowest score from an assignment group, for it to correctly… Read more »