Dear Chapman Community, Get ready for the upcoming fall semester with Canvas’ Panda Pros Workshops, running from July 31st to August 22nd! These free virtual workshops from Canvas offer personalized 45-minute 1:1 assistance to ensure you have a smooth transition back to school. Schedule a Panda Pro session today to have all your Canvas questions
Fall 2023 courses are now available in Canvas! We hope that you will find these resources helpful if you need to copy content from a past Canvas course or a template course into a Fall 2023 Canvas course. Canvas course copy best practices: Do not copy “All Content” when copying from one course to another.
Canvas offers many video guides in order to help new and continuing instructors and students learn how to use Canvas. In the past, those videos were stored in Vimeo. By July 31, 2023, Canvas plans to migrate all the video guides from Vimeo to Canvas Studio. This migration will change the links you use to
If you have a grader or multiple instructors in a course, you may want to consider turning on anonymous instructor annotations in your assignment. When creating an assignment, you can enable anonymous instructor annotations in DocViewer supported submissions. When students view a submission with anonymous instructor annotations in DocViewer, comments do not display an instructor’s
What do Chapman students want to see in a well-designed Canvas course? According to a recent survey, they want Canvas to be organized, assignments clearly communicated with due dates, and the course easy to navigate. These findings are in line with a recent Ohio University survey. In April 2023, we asked students to share examples
Dear Chapman Instructors and Staff, There is a new feature in Canvas called “Apply Score to Ungraded” that makes it easier to enter grades in the Gradebook for past due and ungraded assignments. What does the “Apply Score to Ungraded” feature do? Have you ever had to go back through your Gradebook at the end
Have you ever found yourself unintentionally influenced while grading an assignment upon seeing a student’s name? It’s a common experience that many of us can relate to. Canvas has a new feature specifically designed to address this issue, allowing instructors to conceal student identities in Speedgrader, promoting fairness and impartiality within the classroom. By utilizing
Rich Content Editor Drag and Drop or Paste Multiple Files Summary In the Rich Content Editor, users can drag and drop or paste multiple files. Change Benefit This change allows users to quickly and efficiently add files in the Rich Content Editor. Feature Workflow Users can drag and drop multiple files into the Rich Content
How do I reopen a Canvas course to resolve an incomplete? Canvas is set up so that students are unable to access Canvas courses after the course is completed. If you have a student who needs to resolve an incomplete grade, you will need to submit a request to make the course available for that
✔️Put in Zeros for Missing Assignments If students are missing assignments you will need to put in zeros for those missing assignments. The easiest way to do this is to open your Grade Center and look for empty grade cells. Some instructors may also use the Missing Submission Policy in the gradebook settings. Resource: How do I enter