Hints, tips and info from Instructional Technologists
Cross – Listing – Quick Steps
This link will bring you to 20 but I thought these were pretty neat
If you’ve made errors while entering grades (and who among us hasn’t accidentally found ourselves entering grades in the wrong column before?), the grade rollback feature might be your new best friend. In your gradebook, if you click on the gear wheel in the top left, the first item on the drop-down menu is “view grading history.” Like with page rollbacks, this allows you to revert back to the previous save point.
If you have multiple documents you would like your students to be able to look at side-by-side, insert a blank table on your page and then insert a document into each cell. Students can click on one document at a time to view it full screen or can scroll through documents right next to each other to compare and contrast them.
Homepages can be chosen quickly via the Change Home Page option on the left after clicking Home from your course menu.
After your initial welcome to the class you might create weekly “homepages” with links to what students will be doing.
Search for Module Introduction Page with Flat Icons to import into your course via Canvas or contact this office for assistance.
Whether you are using Canvas for the first time or teaching a specific course for the first time this Spring in Canvas, here is a tip if you have archived content from Blackboard import it into one of your Sandbox Courses (you have 4) and then copy what you need into your Spring Course.
Canvas Trainings from Canvas can be found here
These can also be accessed via Canvas’ training portal once logged into Canvas.
| All faculty are enrolled in our Canvas Orientation course. In addition to being a training resource, we’re also using this course to communicate information about new features, special training events and other important updates.
Be sure to enable course notifications so you’re in the know about Canvas. Today’s announcement – October 7 | 2:00pm-3:00pm | Join the Teach with Teams session (Links to an external site.)More than 60 participants attended our first Teach with Team session. By the end of the session, participants were giving presenter Jennifer Jury (Links to an external site.), Microsoft Learning Consultant, threads of positive feedback and appreciation for a great session. Topics: Creating meetings in Canvas; Setting meeting permissions; Meeting features (attendance reports, breakout rooms, whiteboards); Presentation tips: Ending a meeting versus leaving a meeting; Sharing meeting recordings. |
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 –
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.
The Canvas team suggests that instructors make their empty BB course available and post a single announcement explaining that Canvas will be used for the fall and include the Canvas login URL https://ecu.instructure.com/
Join us in HSB 4415 for weekly Canvas Chats from 1:30 – 3:30 throughout Fall semester starting 8/9/19.
Time to learn some new tricks! Want to know if students have looked at something, click on the contextual arrow next to the item and enable Review. Advise students to check after reviewing this not only gives you an indication but also reminds students what they have opened and what still needs to be opened. Go one step further using Adaptive Release and have a quiz or another item appear once Review is checked.
Have Review next to Syllabus and upon checked have a short Syllabus quiz become available to the students!
Tagging onto my colleague’s email today check out this new tool Qwickly
“Qwickly allows faculty to make courses available, send emails, post announcements, and post content to multiple courses at once.”
After logging into Blackboard click the Add Module option in the upper left corner and then scroll (it’s in alphabetic order) to “add” the Qwickly tool!
Great timesaver!
In case you forgot this is just a reminder that you now have the ability to check exactly what your students see when they are in your Blackboard course. You just click on this icon 
to get to this view. Here is a short video explaining more on this neat feature.
Not sure about roles? Blackboard Blog has a nice explanation which can be found here.
To be successful in online courses, students must quickly learn to be organized. In fact, organization is the key to a successful learning environment. Without organization, students quickly become derailed from the course timeline and must spend their time playing catch-up. Typically, students are enrolled in more than one course and instructors are teaching more than one course. One organizational challenge that both instructors and students face is keeping track of all of the assignments and due dates in all of their courses.