A-Z of Canvas Course Features
A Announcements – Course level Announcements allow instructors to communicate with students about course activities and post interesting course-related topics. They can be effectively used to communicate about the logistics of your course. As soon as you have created an Announcement, Canvas takes care of…
Canvas for Communication
Canvas includes a number of tools for instructors to use to communicate and interact with students through their module. Tools: Canvas Inbox for all personal communications with individual students, and for full class messages such as “Your assignment has been graded”. Conferences for virtual classes and…
Module Development in Canvas
Canvas makes it easy to create and share engaging learning content and activities. When you log in to Canvas for the first time, you will see a number of Canvas courses on your dashboard. The following section describes the difference areas which you have access…
Introducing Canvas
Queen’s are rolling-out Canvas, a new University-wide Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to on-campus and online distance learning students. Following the rollout to a limited number of modules in academic year 2018/19, the VLE will be now deployed across all Schools from September 2019. To aid…
Be ‘Canvas Ready’ for September!
Canvas is Queen’s new, University-wide Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) which will be officially adopted across all Schools in AY 2019/20, replacing the current VLE provided through Queen’s Online (QOL). If you haven’t had the opportunity to avail of Canvas training this year, it’s not too…
Canvas Building Blocks
The Canvas Building Block Series was introduced in May with a number of one-hour, highly focused training sessions focused on building skills required to create an engaging course in Canvas. Delegates came prepared to ask questions and discover how to successfully leverage Canvas to enhance…