Help for Unpublished Courses Feature Summary The Dashboard, Courses menu, and All Courses page display both published and unpublished courses. Multiple file uploads Summary Instructors can add multiple module content from the Course Home Page or the Modules page. Additionally, the Course Home Page has received small design modifications. Change Benefit This change helps instructors
Over the last two months, Canvas has been bringing in instructors from all over to talk about how they use Canvas. These streaming videos do last about an hour, but they are WORTH IT. If I share a video from this series, it’s because I have watched it, found it useful, and think it is
End of Semester: Grading Wrap-up Set up your course Grading Scheme if you did not do so at the start of the semester. Double-check to make sure that the grading scheme on your syllabus matches the grading scheme in Canvas. A standard Chapman University grading scheme is automatically enabled in your course site, so it
Turn off the course summary on the syllabus page Some instructors don’t like the course summary which auto-populates on the Syllabus page in Canvas. If this feature doesn’t work well for you, you can now turn it off. Navigate to your Syllabus page and then deselect Show Course Summary Finally, choose Update Syllabus
What is Ally? Ally is a new Chapman service to help make course materials in Canvas more accessible. Ally provides faculty with feedback on the accessibility of course content in Canvas using a visual dial and provides suggested step-by-step instructions to improve the accessibility of the content. Need help! A little better Almost there Perfect! Ally also provides
Video conferencing is new for students, too! Help your students learn to use whatever tool you decide to use in your synchronous online instruction. Zoom Instructions Dear Students, we will be using the Zoom platform in our class. You can find Zoom by going into your Canvas course at canvas.chapman.edu. In the left-hand menu click
Zoom is a popular web conferencing software that is already integrated with Canvas. As of 3/13/2020 we have an expanded license to Zoom for Chapman instructors. Please log in with your Chapman credentials via Single Sign On to activate your account at https://chapman.zoom.us Students do not need to have a Zoom account to attend meetings
Host Class Virtually through Conferences (BigBlueButton) Unable to make it to class due to an unforeseen circumstance? Want to have online office hours? What about an online tutoring session for students? Hold it on BigBlueButton in Canvas! Easily create a virtual meeting in Canvas through BigBlueButton. You’ll find it on the Conferences tab. (Links to an
Educational Technology Services will be hosting Canvas Lightning Talks on Monday, 04/6/20 and Thursday, 04/9/20; Between 3 to 5 PM at the Tech Hub. During these talks, we will hear from Canvas Early Adopters and faculty members who have participated in the ‘Complete Course Redesign’ program. The speakers will share their experiences with Canvas and