Semester Course Evaluations
The window for conducting the spring 2021 semester online course evaluations will begin on Monday, May 3, at 8 a.m. and end on Saturday, May 15, at 11:59 p.m. Please access the spring 2021 semester calendar. What do faculty need to do? Please be sure that your Canvas course is published and that Course Evaluations are enabled in
Recording available for "You've leveled up on technology: Bringing it back to the classroom"
On April 6, 2021, the IETL and ETS sponsored the virtual teaching workshop: “You’ve leveled up on technology: Bringing it back to the classroom.” The workshop helped faculty reflect on what they’ve learned over the last year learning Canvas, Zoom, and other technologies, discuss how their successes support learning theory, and strategize their use of
5 Canvas Features That Can Help You Provide Richer Feedback
For this week’s Teaching Tips Thursday, we explored five features of Canvas that can help instructors provide timely, consistent, specific, balanced, and actionable feedback. Feature #1: Quiz Question Feedback Research shows that providing frequent quizzes with timely feedback improves students’ understanding of concepts. Did you know that you can add feedback for answer choices when
Stand Out from the Crowd
Want to make that next presentation or assignment stand out from the rest? Turn research into compelling infographics using Photoshop or Illustrator. Record a podcast using Audition. Create videos that make an impact using Spark, Rush, or Premiere Pro. Create a stunning webpage or portfolio with Spark or Portfolio. All Chapman University students have
Canvas Updates
Assignments Webcam Submissions Summary In File Upload assignments, students can use their webcam to submit to an assignment. Change Benefit This change allows students to use their webcam to submit a file upload assignment from the browser and aligns behavior with the Canvas Student app. Affected User Roles & Behaviors Students For File Upload assignments,
Why I love using Hypothesis
This blog post is authored by Dr. Shira Klein, faculty in the Department of History of Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. “Hypothesis,” is a wonderful tool for making sure students have done the reading, or at least part of it. In disciplines where learning depends heavily on textual sources, ensuring that students
Teaching Tips Thursday: Wheel of Names
What is the Wheel of Names? Wheel of names is a free online tool to randomize names or images. Access Go to the wheel of names website to access https://wheelofnames.com/ Ideas for Using Wheel of Names Student names Team names Subject matter You can copy special characters like smileys from other websites and paste them
You've leveled up on technology: bringing it back to the classroom
The IETL is sponsoring an upcoming workshop that will benefit you as we transition back to teaching in the classroom. Through intense efforts over the past year, you have learned Canvas, Zoom, and other technologies. Your hard work will continue to benefit your instruction even when you return to the classroom. Join the April 6
New tool available in the Canvas Speedgrader
The latest update of Canvas (March 21, 2021) introduced a new feature in the Speedgrader: Submission Reassignments. SpeedGrader: Submission Reassignments (2021-03-20 Release) from Instructure Canvas Community on Vimeo. Summary In SpeedGrader, instructors can reassign an assignment with a due date to an individual student and ask them to redo their submission. Change Benefit This
Trimester Course Evaluations
The window for conducting the spring 2021 trimester online course evaluations will begin on Monday, March 29, at 8 a.m. and end on Saturday, April 10, at 11:59 p.m. Please access the spring 2021 trimester calendar. What do faculty need to do? Please be sure that your Canvas course is published and that Course Evaluations