Save time with Respondus!
Respondus Test Generator helps you create tests easily for quick import into Canvas. For information click here. Here are some tips from Respondus on saving time when creating exams!
Kym Jefferson
Keeping things simple
Links to sections that don’t have any content and that students cannot create content for will be automatically hidden for students and will display the Visibility icon to instructors. Disabling a course navigation link creates the following redirects: Hidden only (cannot be disabled but still accessible via direct URL): Discussions and Grades Page disabled; redirected to … Read more
Not exactly Canvas but some neat Ideas
This online shared repository contains “Teaching Idea Sparks” to help inspire innovative and effective teaching at East Carolina University. This is intended to be a growing resource with information, ideas, and suggestions from fellow faculty and academic literature. Also, if you’re looking for more teaching inspiration, check out our “Captain’s Quest” web game, where you can collaborate with other faculty … Read more
Collections!
Desktop recordings in Canvas are done in Studio, which is accessed from your main menu. You now can organize your recordings by using using Collections. Collections, like folders, make organizing and finding media easier. Collections can also be shared, inside Canvas, with other ECU users. Neat tool to use!
It takes just a few minutes
To export your course from Blackboard. You do not have to immediately import to Canvas but save the file to your PirateDrive for safe keeping. Courses which have been imported into Canvas by Academic Technologies – Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 You will find a shell for Spring 2020 in Canvas but there will not … Read more
Checkout the Checklist!
Recent canvas training has been using this agenda and providing checklists which can be very helpful in developing/transferring your course to Canvas. The links are interactive to google doc pages. Here is a sample to well designed courses. Contact this office if you would like help designing a homepage template for your department.
Analytics and more analytics
Canvas offers much information on student viewing and accessing course contents. To get even more information click on Settings in your course, Feature Options and check New Course and User Analytics to on.
Assignment Submissions
Can now be limited, you can leave as Unlimited which is the default or select Limit and set the number of attempts allowed!
Easy to share!
Your content with other faculty! Use the Send to option to directly share pages, files with another instructor. Click on the Snowman (3 dots next to the item), select “Send to” and search via e-mail address.
Time to archive
Now that Spring 2020 semester is over please remember to Archive the BB content. You can import the content directly into your Spring 2020 course in Canvas as there will be a shell for all your Spring 2020 courses that you taught. If you taught in BB spring 2020 the content will not be automatically … Read more
In case you don’t want it all!
Your sandbox courses are handy spaces to import your content from Blackboard and give you an idea how the course looks in Canvas. If you were a many folder course creator the transfer to Canvas may look a bit messy and take a lot of reorganization but no worries you can easily “Copy” specific content … Read more