There are several tools that can empower your students to connect and collaborate effectively. Which of these could help you achieve your course goals? Canvas Discussions Perhaps the most straightforward interface for student discussion threads, …
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2020 Fall Survey Template for the First Days of Class
Instructions for Fall 2020 Survey template. Save time by importing this survey into your course and customizing it as needed.
Fall 2020 Course Checklist
As you set up your course for Fall, there are more details to consider than ever before. Changing guidance and changing circumstances will require adaptability. Consider using the list below to think through a few …
Web Conferencing Tools: Which should you use?
As we move forward with Instructional Continuity by providing learning materials at a distance, you may be struggling to choose a method to web conference with your students. You are not alone! Learn@UW Madison put …
Fall 2018 Canvas Updates
Non-scoring rubrics There are a variety of ways to use rubrics to give feedback to students. If you use rubrics for grading, you’re likely familiar with the steps to add a rubric to an assignment …
What’s new in Canvas? Summer 2018 Update
Canvas updates every 3 weeks, sometimes with small changes and sometimes with big ones. These are the changes most relevant to our Engineering faculty and instructors: The rubric importer Make to-do items more prominent with Dashboard …
Top 10 Course Navigation Tips in Canvas
It’s lovely to wander around the lake this time of year. It’s less lovely to wander aimlessly around a course site. If you haven’t already, take a few minutes now to consider your Canvas course …
Supporting Students in the Peer Review Process
If you have students review and comment on each other’s work, you may want to use the Canvas peer review feature. This post briefly explains the process and includes links to resources that can help …
New Instructor Roles in Canvas
Summer course shells are now available in Canvas, and with them come three new instructor roles that take the place of the Teacher role: Principal Instructor, Supervisory Instructor, and Auxiliary Instructor. In this post we’ll …
Canvas Gradebook Update – January 2017
The next phase of the new Canvas Gradebook is complete! For a thorough description and demonstration of the new Gradebook, please refer to my previous blog post from November 2017. The November update included improved …