Today is Fall Festival which marks the separation from Block 1 to Block 2. Here are Canvas tips for Start and End of Semester.. New to Canvas remember to keep the menu area simple and if you need this office to test anything I have a true student account to assist in making sure all … Read more
Canvas is a mobile friendly learning management system and since so much of teaching is now online perhaps it is time to make your online course more effective. New session starting on October 5 and November 30 Now two-week and four-week pacing options Designing Effective Online Courses: An Online Workshop for UNC System Faculty and … Read more
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
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
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
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.
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.
Where is it? When using Studio for recording lectures the screen can get full quickly with recordings. One tip is to name your recordings with the Course name or abbreviation ie. OET8000, the date and perhaps the topic. You can also review which recordings are in which class by clicking the hamburger menu next to … 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
Most are available and now is the time to make the transition! Lots of information, tutorials at the Canvas site. Remember walkin hours are available, one on one sessions and 24 hour chat line. Latest Canvas update can be found here.
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