Hints, tips and info from Instructional Technologists
https://ofe.ecu.edu/technology-tailgate/ Some of the afternoon sessions to check out 2:00 PM Hidden Feature Gems in Canvas 2:30 PM Interactive Tools for Student Engagement in Synchronous […]
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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 to help solve common problems of teaching practice!
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!
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 be a shell for Fall 2019 you will need to import that into one of your Sandbox courses are directly into Fall 2020 shell.
You can import specific content or all content, if you have tests for many years I have found a way to delete the very old ones if interested.
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.
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.
Can now be limited, you can leave as Unlimited which is the default or select Limit and set the number of attempts allowed!
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.
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 brought into Canvas you must do it yourself. Instructions can be found here.
Need help contact this office.
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 from your Sandbox to your actual course. Go to Settings, Import Content, Select Copy a Canvas Course, enter the Course you want to copy from and then select the Radio Button for Select specific content.
Need assistance contact this office.
What are What-if Grades? What-If Grades allow students to calculate their total grade by entering hypothetical grades for assignments. Only students can enter and view What-If scores.
Canvas is always working to calculate two grades, the current grade and the total grade, for students. The current grade is calculated by adding up the graded assignments according to their weight in the course grading scheme. This grade is calculated with the Calculate based only on graded assignments checkbox selected in the sidebar.
Click the link about to learn more!