Many LCCC faculty jumped in to explore Canvas this week. We can see activity in the Canvas environment and we've heard about a training badge competition heating up. CET trained this week as well. One great discovery in the "Creating Assessments with Quizzes.Next" session was the Stimulus question type. It opens a great opportunity to imbed media to use as a reference for assessment questions.
What did YOU discover in Canvas this week?
Student can play "What if" with their grades and see their overall course grade based on hypothetical grades they might earn in the future. For example, a student might want to know what grade they must get on a test scheduled for next week to raise their overall course grade to a "B".
ReplyDeleteDo you use YuJa? If so, I understand we will continue our contract with them as we transition into Canvas, at least for awhile.
ReplyDeleteI was able to: Log into D2L, open YuJa, grab an embed link for a video I made, and then embed that into a page in Canvas. Worked like a charm.
Thanks for pioneering Rob--we appreciate your sharing here!
ReplyDeleteCanvas Commons is an excellent resource for sharing course content across departments, course sections, or the entire college. Do you have a great resource or idea you would like others to be able to access and use in their courses? Why not share it to the Canvas Commons!?
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ReplyDeleteI like all the guides that they have for various users that reinforce what you have learned in the training videos. These are a great resource!
It is easy to embed files from Office 365 and even make 365 Cloud assignments for student submissions.
ReplyDeleteStudents can easily see the feedback (text, audio and video formats) from their home page for all of their courses! Cool!
ReplyDeleteI'm cheating, but I wanted to share Cloud Assignments!
ReplyDeleteThanks Brandon for showing this!
ReplyDeleteI was able to transfer all my Spanish 1010 lesson tests and quizzes into Canvas. Hint here: Canvas works better with small zip files. The first time I tried to export question library items from D2L and import them to Canvas it showed me some errors uploading files. I divided the load into smaller zip files and voila! No errors whatsoever. I recreated the test and quizzes and all the items work fine.
ReplyDeleteCanvas reports that a very high percentage of students access their course site using a mobile device. There are several design issues that make this much better for students, take the "Course Design Considerations" to learn more.
ReplyDeleteThere are mobile apps for both teachers and students (search "instructure" in the Play store for Android)
Very easy to install, no need for URLS the apps can easily find LCCC's site.
I suggest installing both. The teachers app allows you to respond to email, discussions, etc. However you DO NOT see your course as a student would. Use the student app to preview what a student would see.
Thanks for this reminder about the mobile apps Rob--I was really impressed with the features I saw in the Canvas teachers app. Your note reminds me to take that webinar again as a refresh!
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For anyone using Respondus to create quizzes and/or exams: I tried it in Canvas and it works fine. I was able to configure Respondus without too much trouble, let me know if anyone would like more information.
ReplyDeleteAll of the textbooks I use are part of the Respondus test bank network, and I can pull directly from their test banks and then into D2L (and now Canvas) without any imports or fuss.
I have now completed 10 webinars and I have written the word "Wow!!" all over my Webinar notes. D2L was an effective LMS to support my students' learning, but I truly believe that the tools available in Canvas are going to help me revolutionize my courses in a way that I had not really considered before this exposure to Canvas. It's going to be a busy summer to become proficient in all that Canvas has to offer, but my students will benefit so much moving forward!!
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