One of my favorite things to read on Fridays is an emailed newsletter called “Better Together.” Each week it offers five simple tips for a more inclusive work environment. This week’s newsletter offers tips for remembering pronouns. This is something I struggle with! I want to use someone’s correct pronouns, but sometimes my memory, brain,
In April 2022, we asked students to share examples of exemplary Canvas courses and tell us why they thought these courses made particularly good use of Canvas. Here is what our Chapman students said: Argyros School of Business and Economics Cristina Nistor | MKTG 408: New Product Development Professor Nistor’s Canvas Course is organized in
Welcome your students Canvas offers many ways you can welcome your students. Here are just a few ideas: Send an announcement with your syllabus Create a welcome video Start a Canvas Discussion post and allow everyone to introduce themselves Use Flipgrid in Canvas for everyone to create their own icebreaker video Get to know your
Welcome your students for the upcoming term prior to your first class. In Canvas, after you have published your course, you can post an announcement and/or have a course Homepage with a welcome message. In the Rich Content Editor, you can type the information and add a video for your welcome message. If you are
Hypothes.is Instructors can make PDFs and web pages hosted in Canvas annotatable. Students can then annotate course readings collaboratively, sharing comments, and replying to each other’s comments. Instructors can also create annotation assignments using Hypothesis so that students submit their annotation “sets” for feedback and grading in Canvas. Hypothesis allows instructors to create small reading
Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials that are created or managed by commercial publishers, but with open licenses. These resources are free for students and allow faculty to revise materials to fit individual courses specifications. Some benefits of using OER materials: They’re free! Easily accessible Flexible Can supplement existing materials Can be updated/changed anytime
The 8 elements discussed below can either be created in Canvas or pulled in from elsewhere using an external tool or embed code. Email edutech@chapman.edu to find out how you can use Canvas to humanize your course.
For this week’s edition of Teaching Tips Thursdays, 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
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
Embedding in Canvas allows you to share outside content without ever having to leave Canvas. Embed codes work in blogs, too. Podcast: Music playlist: Next time you need to share a resource with your students, see if the webpage has an embed code! Then, insert in your Canvas course any place you see