Faculty, have you ever “lost” annotations in a document you graded while using Firefox? This is an identified bug, but there is a work-around discussed below. When an instructor uses Crocodoc annotations for a supported assignment submission type (primarily Word …
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As Thanksgiving approaches, it is a great time to reflect on what is working in our courses. What do you like about Canvas? What features or ways of organizing and doing things in Canvas are you thankful for? Students and …
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With final exams approaching, the importance of creating a good test for students is crucial. All faculty have the ability to create tests within their courses in Canvas. Settings for these online quizzes can be customized to allow for a …
Spring 2016 courses have now been added to Canvas for faculty to begin designing. As you consider your Canvas course sites for the next semester, faculty can do several things: Start from scratch designing your Canvas course. The benefit of …
It is that time of the semester when students start to wonder what their final grade in a course will be. Canvas has a useful feature that allows students to see what their grade will be if they receive certain …
The new updates to Canvas on 10-31-15 added some useful functionality to Canvas in regards to Modules and Quiz statistics. Learn more by viewing the video overview of the new features here: http://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-5189. Canvas makes these incremental upgrades and enhancements …
This month we have been busy integrating external tools into Canvas that faculty and students may find useful. Most notable is the integration with Turnitin. Currently there are two different ways to make an assignment a Turnitin assignment in Canvas. …
When we piloted Canvas about a year ago, one of the comments that surfaced repeatedly from students is that things were much easier to find in Canvas. In working with students throughout this semester, many have commented that they wish …
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Do you teach two different sections of a course on different days of the week or do you have a student that needs an extension for an assignment? You can assign different due dates for sections of specific students using …
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One of the easy-to-use features of Canvas has been the check box to enable Turnitin Originality Checks on any online assignment in Canvas. But, that Turnitin API integration limits the features and functionality of the Turnitin tool. So, last week …
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As we continue to get used to Canvas and transition our workflows from the “Blackboard way of doing things” to Canvas, one of the biggest changes may be that content is organized differently in Canvas. In Blackboard, course content was …
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Canvas is great for loading content files that we need students to access without having to print them out on paper. But adding lots of files to a module doesn’t have to be terribly time consuming. Thanks to Tam Humbert …
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The latest update to Canvas has some really nice feature enhancements. Check out this brief video to learn more. Some highlights include: Recurring events in the calendar Polling available in the Conferences tool
While Canvas works better than Blackboard did in different browsers, it still works best in Firefox or Chrome. Did you notice that all of the desktop shortcuts on computer lab and classroom podiums for Canvas launch it in Firefox? To read about …
With the semester in full swing, and everyone using Canvas now on campus, all students, faculty and staff are getting comfortable with the new learning management system. As with any technology change, there are things about Canvas that are different …