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How and Why Canvas Peer Review Should be Part of Your Writing Assignments

April 11, 2023 thoeck

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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Annoto: New Social Interaction Feature Available in Canvas

April 4, 2023 thoeck

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.

Did You Know? Quick Tips on Classroom Technology: Rubrics

December 3, 2022 thoeck

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.

Learning with the LEC Video: Canvas Module Progression

November 16, 2022 thoeck

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.

Quick Take: Canvas Mastery Paths

November 12, 2022 thoeck

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.

Should Instructors Consider Changing Default Due Times for their Assignments?

October 12, 2022 thoeck

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.

Learning with the LEC: Drop the Lowest Grade

October 7, 2022 thoeck

Are you looking for an easy way to drop the lowest grade for students in Canvas? Maybe their lowest quiz grade, or assignment grade? This is extremely easy to do! Canvas automatically assesses how the change most positively affects a student and will consider the point values for the assessments to determine whether the point value or percentage should be used in determining which grade to drop. This video tutorial will walk you through the basic steps.

Learning with the LEC – Canvas Assignment Weights

September 15, 2022 thoeck

Would you like to assign grade weights in Canvas so that your assignments, discussions, quizzes, and tests each contribute a different percentage to a student’s final grade? This is quick and easy to do in Canvas. Within each assignment group, a percentage is calculated based on total points available in that group. This video tutorial will walk you through the basic steps.

Did You Know? Quick Tips On Classroom Technology

September 13, 2022 thoeck

This workshop is designed to show you different classroom technologies that can assist you in enhancing your online, blended, or face-to-face classroom experience. The instructor will take you step-by-step through each topic by telling you what it is, why you would use it, and demonstrate how to use it before you try it. During this fast-paced workshop, we will share unique features about the tools that you use everyday but may not know everything about. This session will cover a variety of Canvas Features including setting Module Requirements, Assignment Groups, and Canvas Commons.

Canvas Corner: Panda Pros – Instructure’s Free Back-to-School Coaching Sessions

September 7, 2022 thoeck

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. The program, called Panda Pros, started last year and because of the great response and feedback, they have brought it back. The program is running right now until September 18th. You can sign up for these 45-minute sessions that run from 9AM to 6PM MDT and are available every day of the week – including weekends!

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