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Join us for an exciting workshop ‘All About Canvas Rubrics’! In this 55-minute session, you will discover how to use Canvas Rubrics to provide clear and consistent feedback to students, save time grading, and improve the quality of student work. You will learn about different types of rubrics, including holistic, analytic, single-point, and customized rubrics, and discover how to create and use them effectively in your course.
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Instructure Canvas, our Learning Management System, is offering free, one-on-one, online coaching sessions on any topic related to Canvas that you may want guidance on. Appointment dates are currently available right now through September 30th. You can sign up for these 45-minute sessions that run from 11 AM to 7 PM Eastern and are available every day of the week – including weekends!
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Canvas has been recently updated with some new features that may be helpful to instructors. These updates include the ability to bulk publish or unpublish modules in a course, and the ability to submit assignments on behalf of a student. Instructors can now bulk publish all modules or individual modules, as well as unpublish them in bulk. This provides instructors with more options and improves efficiency when publishing modules. You now have the option to publish all modules and items or all modules only, along with the option to unpublish all modules and items.
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Accessibility means designing content that is accessible to people with a diverse range of hearing, movement, sight, or cognitive abilities. It means making sure all users can access your content as easily as possible. Accessibility is a crucial component to course content that is often overlooked, and Canvas’ Accessibility Checker is here to help. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to use the Accessibility Checker in Canvas to identify accessibility issues and provide you with solutions to make your content accessible and easier to navigate for all users.
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Canvas has some great features that can add to the course experience for both students and instructors. One of these is the peer review option for assignments. A peer review assignment requires that students provide feedback on each other’s assignment submissions. This results in higher quality work and a more involved learning process that ultimately leads to greater success in mastering course content while students learn from each other (Yalch et al., 2019).
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NSU has just rolled out a new tool that you can use in your Canvas courses called Annoto. Annoto has many great features that will engage your students while they are viewing videos. This tool transforms the video-watching experience from a passive one into an active one and can be used with any video you choose. It enables learners to contribute, share, and learn together, experience videos as an interactive group, and keep a personal journal of notes. It allows instructors to guide the video-watching experience with questions, formative assessments, and focused discussions, as well as the ability to answer questions related to the video.
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Rubrics are a valuable tool for both instructors and students. They are especially useful for written assignments and projects where quality may be hard to define, and grading can be interpreted as being subjective. For instructors, rubrics help to clarify expectations and components for an assignment. They also help to assess assignments consistently from one student to another and they cut down time spent on grading.
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After an online course has started, instructors may want to be able to quickly check for student engagement and progress on learning activities. Instructors can easily add requirements to Canvas course Modules to track the progress of individual students. Module progress is determined by the students completing required elements in the module. This short tutorial will show you how to setup and view student progress through course modules.
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Canvas Mastery paths allows you to deliver specific pieces of course content to students based on performance on a graded assignment, discussion, or quiz. It is particularly useful for asynchronous courses where you want to restrict access to content until a student can master prior content. Mastery Paths can also allow you to present remedial content to students who did not perform well on a graded item and can also be used to provide students with a choice of assignments as they pursue course learning objectives. Join us as we guide you through Mastery Paths for Canvas.
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When instructors design their courses, as they assign due dates, they often leave the default due time of 11:59 p.m. for assessments. This may work well for many people, but there are reasons to reconsider whether this is the best time to have as a deadline for both students and instructors alike.
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