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Learning with the LEC Video: Canvas Link Validator

November 2, 2022 thoeck

When hosting your course in Canvas you want to ensure all links in your course are working properly and haven’t broken since you last reviewed your course. There is a tool built into Canvas to automatically check all course links for you called link validator. The validator searches through your course modules, pages, and assignments and flags invalid or broken links in both published and unpublished content. This Learning with the LEC Video, will walk you through the steps to validate links within your course.

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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.

Learning with the LEC – Canvas Assignment Groups

August 24, 2022 thoeck

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.

Learning with the LEC: Canvas Student Groups

August 4, 2022 thoeck

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.