Category: Learning with the LEC

Video can be a great way to present course content to your students. Most video-watching experiences are passive though, and there aren’t many ways to ensure that students are even watching. Annoto is a new tool available to instructors at NSU directly through your Canvas courses.  Annoto engages your students by transforming the video-watching experience from a passive one into an active one.

In this episode of the Learning with the LEC series, you will be guided on how to access the Annoto Dashboard, as well as how to set your Annoto preferences and see video analytics.

Video can be a great way to present course content to your students. Most video-watching experiences are passive though, and there aren’t many ways to ensure that students are even watching. Annoto is a new tool available to instructors at NSU directly through your Canvas courses.  Annoto engages your students by transforming the video-watching experience from a passive one into an active one, enabling learners to contribute, share and learn together, experience videos as an interactive group, and keep a personal journal of notes.

This “Learning with LEC” video shares a brand new tip with you – creating breakout rooms based on the poll results in Zoom. This new feature of Zoom helps you create more engaging and customized breakout sessions for your participants.

In this video tutorial, you will learn how to create and edit appointment slots through the Canvas calendar. This is a great way to set up individual or group appointments, allowing students to reserve the appointment slot they wish, with the information showing up in both their, and your, calendars. Students will be reminded of the appointment in their “To Do” column on their dashboard.

Did you know that you can create and manage assignments for your courses through the Canvas calendar? The calendar allows you to see assignments from all your courses in one central place. You can create new assignments or change assignment details directly from the calendar. You can easily change due dates, for example, by just dragging the assignment to a different date. This quick video tutorial will guide you through the steps.

Navigation links are an important part of the student experience in the Canvas LMS. Navigation should be clear and simple for students, and they should only see the links you want students to have access to. The order of navigation links can be changed, and links can also be hidden so links won’t appear in your students’ navigation panel. This will simplify navigation and remove the distraction of unneeded links. This video tutorial will guide you on how to manage and hide navigation links for students.