Since Studio is a bit of a standalone portion of Canvas, it is not clear sometimes how to share with students. You can share the recording by clicking on the snowman dots. Alternatively you can share to a Module by clicking External Tool and scrolling to Studio. You can embed into a page by clicking … Read more
Canvas’ desktop recording solution. Easy to use and allows annotating while recording, I have been told by Canvas trainers that best practice for teaching and studio is to not record for longer than 30 minutes at a time. This works well for chunking. Even if you are teaching in BB you can open your Canvas … Read more
Now to Canvas, Spring Courses are available to you when you login. You can easily export your BB content to Canvas. From the Continuity plan – “Attend Canvas Training and review Canvas Guides & Overview Videos. 2. Migrate your course to Canvas now. 3. Test the communication, web conferencing and recording tools. 4. Add a … Read more
And you can get started now as some Summer/Fall 2020 shells can be found if you search in Courses. Remember that Fall 2019 BB content was not moved over but Fall 2018 BB content was. Summer 2019 content was migrated to Canvas. If you do not see your 2020 course you can still start working … Read more
So you are taking the Canvas Plunge! Remember to keep it simple, for you and for your students. Hide the options that you don’t need by going to Settings, clicking on Navigation and dragging what is not needed. This will prevent confusion. Remember to drag files to this area too so students don’t access files … Read more
An end and beginning of semester checklist can be found here. Canvas sessions will still be held next week in Joyner East 204 or set up a time with OET.
Merge your courses and also have the ability to set up specific assignments, tasks, etc for separate sections. Follow this link to learn how. The instructions were made using Studio which is Canvas’ video tool.
Canvas Training – Getting Started with Canvas Canvas Training – Quizzes, Assignments If you are unsure about using Canvas for Spring 2020 you might want to consider that Blackboard will be gone in August 2020 so as you prepare for Spring 2021 courses you will not be able to review your Blackboard site. Content from … Read more
From Dr. Guyla Evans, our faculty leader and early Canvas Adoptee – Canvas has lots of bells and whistles, but we don’t have to incorporate all of them at once. The “best practice” recommendation adopted by the Faculty Senate suggests at minimum using the “Syllabus” and “Grades” features within Canvas. If you choose to teach … Read more
And you put those BB courses to rest, take some time to clean them up, get rid of old content so you are ready to transition to Canvas when prepping in Summer 2020. One question I have been asked repeatedly “What will happen to my tests?” I have discovered that most tests export quite well. … Read more
Spring 2020 courses will be available on both Blackboard and Canvas, so what you going to do? Login to Canvas Check out your past courses, migrating from BB to Canvas Go to training check out the guides Decide which LMS is best for you and your students – timeline Take the plunge now or wait … Read more
As the early adopters get ready to launch their courses the rest of us will soon be able to login to Canvas and look at past courses to see how your content migrates over. Many of you only teach a specific course in Fall Semester so as you work through the semester take note what … Read more
Mid week break but some may make it a long weekend. Whichever it is we are zipping through the summer and fall semester is around the corner. As you prepare your fall course site on BB take some time and review old content. Content no longer being used should be purged so that when you … Read more