Top 5 Potential Assessment Set-up Pitfalls
There are a few potential pitfalls that can easily be avoided when setting up assignments and assignment weighting within Canvas. Luckily, we’ve seen a lot of them before and the advice below will make sure you don’t fall into them! 1. Incorrect Turnitin Settings If…
Canvas For Teaching Assistants
This blog post outlines the main areas of Canvas that a Teaching Assistant at Queens University should be comfortable with in order to carry out their role. There are videos and images throughout each section giving a visual overview or a walk-through of the items…
External Examiner Advice
In order to access Canvas as an external examiner at Queen's you will need to be assigned the 'External Examiner' role within Qsis. This is a specific role for external examiners which will give you access to the areas required. In order to access Canvas...
Publishing Your Module
In order that students can view the content you have lovingly created in Canvas you must do two things: Import the course material from your DEVELOP area into the Academic Module for AY 2019/20. Make sure that everything you want the students to see is...
Turnitin Assignments in Canvas
In light of a number of support calls reporting issues relating to the use of Turnitin assignments within Canvas, this post calls out important settings that must be reviewed within your assignment to avoid your students encountering problems when submitting. 1. Submissions made directly to...
Copy *Right* in Canvas (Webinar Wednesday #4)
Clare Thomson from the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences led the webinar on Wednesday 7th November. She talked through how you can find images and content for your Canvas course without breaking copyright law. She also had lots of useful tips for finding...
Lifting the Mask of Anonymous Grading
Canvas provides you with the option to enable anonymisation when setting up an assignment. The two main settings when it comes to anonymisation are: Anonymous Grading Anonymous Instructor Annotations Anonymous Grading To enable anonymous grading when setting up an assignment click the box 'Graders cannot view...
Gradebook and Speedgrader Settings (Webinar Wednesday #3)
Canvas has moved to a new Gradebook. For more information please see: The New Canvas Gradebook Today's Webinar Wednesday session explored some of the Gradebook and Speedgrader options and settings. Aaron Crozier talked through how to set up the assignments for a module and the...
Updating The Image On Your Course Card
You can choose an image to display on the Dashboard that represents your teaching Module....here's how: Be sure the image is a photograph and that it is not subject to copyright. Accepted images include JPG, JPEG, GIF, and PNG files and should be approximately 262...