Fall 2021 courses are now available in Canvas! Before you copy “All Content” please check the following resources and avoid the most common issues. Best Practice: Do NOT copy “All Content” when copying from one course to another. You will end up with more than you bargained for. Use caution when copying Calendar Events. It
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
Fall 2021 courses are now available in Canvas! Before you copy “All Content” please check the following resources and avoid the most common issues. Best Practice: Do NOT copy “All Content” when copying from one course to another. You will end up with more than you bargained for. Use caution when copying Calendar Events. It
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
Midterm season has officially arrived! This time after the first major assessment of the semester can be the perfect time to pause, reflect on your teaching thus far, and ask your students for their feedback. Benefits of collecting mid-semester feedback Taking time for a mid-semester feedback survey can reap so many benefits for both instructors
For this week’s Teaching Tips Thursday, we explored Google Jamboard! Google Jamboard is a collaborative digital whiteboard that is available for free through your Chapman Google account. How to access Google Jamboard Go to jamboard.google.com and sign in with your Chapman email address and password if needed. OR: Click on the Google Apps “waffle” and
During the first few weeks of the semester, we often receive questions from instructors who would like to download their class roster or who are looking for a way to download a list of their students’ email addresses from Canvas. Did you know that there is now a way to do this from New Analytics
Have you ever accidentally deleted an assignment, page, discussion, etc. from your Canvas course? You may be able to restore the deleted item using this “undelete” trick: First, go to the Home page of your Canvas course. Find the URL of your Canvas course at the top of the browser tab: Type /undelete at the
Now that Blackboard has officially retired, you may be wondering what to do if you need something from Blackboard. Need content from a Blackboard course? Did you know that all Blackboard courses from Fall 2016 to Spring 2020 that contained content were migrated to an archive space in Canvas so that faculty can access them
Have you ever wondered how your students see their grades and the feedback that you are providing for them in Canvas? In last week’s Tech Tuesday, we looked at grades and feedback from a student perspective: Here are the Canvas Guides for the topics that we covered. Please feel free to share these with your
We hope that the fall semester is off to a great start for everyone. Do you have questions about Canvas and other instructional technologies? Educational Technology Services has added new workshops for fall, including two workshops this week led by special guest trainer Adam Kuntz from Canvas. Topics include: How to use Canvas discussions to
How to download your class roster in Canvas 
Accidentally deleted something in Canvas? 
New fall workshops about Canvas and more