Learning and Educational Center
Are you using the assignment groups feature in Canvas? It is easy to create assignment groups, and it is a great tool for organizing your courses as well as performing tasks such as assigning different weights to your assessments or dropping the lowest grades for students. This video tutorial will walk you through the basic steps.
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If you have writing assignments in your course, then you already know that plagiarism can be a problem. This workshop will present the tool, Turnitin, which helps identify instances of potential plagiarism. During the workshop, you will learn about the various ways in which Turnitin can be used in your Canvas course so that you can begin screening writing assignments for plagiarism, as well as grammatical errors.
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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is an easy-to-use tool to foster strong connections within a course. This tool is offered to educators for free and can be integrated into your Canvas Course to allow students and you the opportunity to record their responses to topics in fun and innovative ways. The social experience of letting students use creativity in composing their video allows them to engage with a topic that stimulates thought provoking responses from students and can also be entertaining. With this tool, you see the student’s emotions during their responses, which can generate a meaningful, more connected experience to any topic you ask them to share their opinions about.
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If you missed our summer Canvas Road Trip Series, you can view the recordings here! Using the metaphor of planning a road trip, this series of five videos offers a blend of backward course design with specific resources to support the design of your course in Canvas.
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If you are looking for a place to find helpful tutorials on features that help you improve your classes, the “Learning with the LEC” series is a great place to start. The Learning and Educational Center produces these short videos which cover a number of different topics. The tutorials explain how each feature is useful and walk you through a step-by-step process explaining how to use them.
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It is easy to create student groups in Canvas for your courses. Canvas Student Groups is a great feature that you can use to create and manage group assignments. This allows for one member of the group to turn in the assignment for the whole group, and one grade to be automatically assigned to the whole group. You can also assign individual due dates to each group. This video tutorial will walk you through the basic steps.
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Zoom is hosting a special series for education organizations on Tuesday, August 2, and Wednesday, August 3. This three-part event series will teach you how to set up your classroom and engage your students on Zoom. Live training sessions are interactive, with opportunities for live Q&A with Zoom Trainers and will inform you on best practices for using Zoom in an educational setting and as an educational tool.
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As you are preparing for the start of the Fall term, we wanted to share some of the recordings from just a few of the workshops we held this summer. We look forward to continuing to present new and exciting events this term.
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Canvas has recently made some changes that can improve the experience for both instructors and learners. Users can now set up their local time zones, instructors can choose alternative default due times, and Canvas has added an icon maker which can create and save icons to visually enhance courses.
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A recent update in Zoom enables a new feature where a meeting participant can perform a gesture to the camera and it will be translated into the appropriate gesture symbol on the screen. This is a great tool for students and professors to use, allowing for a more intuitive way to react in a session. The new feature works with two gestures – the “raise hand” and the “thumbs-up.”
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