Posts relating to Canvas.
October 16 Update: Canvas has now made immersive reader available in more areas, not just pages. Read more below. Our students enter our classrooms with different life experiences. This is… Continue reading "Using Immersive Reader and New Quizzes to Build Background in Canvas"
This post focuses on how to manually add a rubric to a Quiz in Canvas. The difficulty in writing a post like this is giving clear directions of how to… Continue reading "Using Rubrics on Quizzes in Canvas"
Digital interactive notebooks are a fun, new way to help keep students engaged and organized digitally. What are Digital Interactive Notebooks? Originally, interactive notebooks were spiral or composition notebooks that… Continue reading "Digital Interactive Notebooks"
Canvas makes it easy to allow students to submit multiple times to the same assignment. This helps you move away from completion and compliance for student work toward a feedback… Continue reading "Focus on Feedback in Canvas"
New Analytics has a lot of new interesting features that let you track what your students have or have not been doing in a course. We’ve already written about messaging… Continue reading "Message Students from Canvas by Course Activity"
If you are like me, you are using Announcements in Canvas frequently to keep students up to date on important information. They’re great because students are notified whenever one is… Continue reading "Add Canvas Course Announcements to your Home Page"
The Canvas course menu is a powerful tool at your disposal for helping students navigate. You have the ability to customize which options are visible to students, which is helpful… Continue reading "Customize Your Canvas Course Menu"
The Canvas gradebook allows you to create quick email lists of students who don’t complete an assignment or score below a certain threshold. You can do the same but at… Continue reading "Message Students by Overall Course Grade in Canvas"
Now, more than ever, it’s important that we encourage executive functioning in our students. Thankfully, Canvas has a number of features that can help facilitate these skills. For many people, a… Continue reading "Using Canvas Modules as Checklists for Students"
There are many ways to share information with students through Canvas. One strategy that is easy and seamless is to allow students to annotate over documents in Canvas. This allows… Continue reading "Edit PDFs in Canvas Assignments"
This is an extension on our last post about Canvas features you’re (probably) not using yet. It’s so good that it needed it’s own post this time around. Did you… Continue reading "Canvas Bonus Tip: Save Frequent Comments"
It’s okay though. That’s why we’re here. Canvas is so full of functionality, it’s easy to miss some of the more helpful options and tools. In this post, we have… Continue reading "Five Features in Canvas You’re (Probably) Not Using Yet"