Reboot – Export Grades – Tip 11
You can easily export grades as you did in BB, go to grades, select Actions, select Export and a file you can open in excel is downloaded.
Reboot – Migrating Content Caveats – Tips 8 & 9
Migrating content to Canvas is easy but do you really need 10 years of content? Canvas Migration Process and Caveats Tip 8 – Rather than Select All you might want to move certain items to another section of your BB course. Remember you should have all your powerpoints, files etc saved to your piratedrive or … Read more
Reboot – Canvas Daily Tip 7 – Hide Grades
Don’t want students to see grades on one item, click on the Snowman dots next to the item in Gradebook and select Grade Posting Policy, Manually. Then back to automatic when they can view.
Reboot – Canvas Daily Tip 6 – Duplicate Page
Not happy with the way your homepage looks? Or like it so much you want to use it in another course? Go to edit all pages click on the snowman dots to the right and either duplicate or copy to. This way if you are making changes the original stays spotless.
Reboot – Canvas Daily Tip 5 – Captioning
Any recording created in Studio and many that you may upload can have captions created after the recording has processed. Check out our own Dr. Holt’s demonstration on using this neat feature.
Reboot – Canvas Daily Tip 4 – Page vs Module
The first item in a module should be a module overview (created as a Canvas “page”) which lists module dates as well as all learning objectives, assignments, and expectations. Pages are containers of content that are part of a course. Pages can include text, video, images, and links to files and other course or group … Read more
Reboot – Canvas Daily Tip 3 – Page History
Did you know that you can click on the snowman dots to the right of the page and select Page History. This allows you to go back to a previous version of that page. (Good to know when you totally mess up)
Reboot – Canvas Daily Tip 2 – Disable Files
There is the global purple menu on the left and each class has its own menu next to it. Go to Settings, Navigation and either click on the snowman dots to disable an time or drag it to the hide from students sections. With Files enabled there might be some exam questions etc. you don’t … Read more
Reboot – 40 days of tips! Where is Undo Button – Ctrl Z –
Canvas Daily Tips throughout the month of July and rebooting now for Spring Semester! Today’s Tip – Can’t find UNDO in the Canvas screen, CTRl + Z will take care of any items that need to be UNDONE!
Rotating Homepages
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 … Read more
Getting set up for Spring
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 … Read more
New to Canvas or time to take your course up a notch!
Lots of good training from Canvas, you can register at this site lots of resources to check out here. I did Gradebook & Speedgrade this morning, good tips, try one out.