Student Guide to Respondus LockDown Browser
What is Respondus LockDown Browser? Respondus LockDown Browser (LDB) is a secure browser for taking quizzes in Canvas. It prevents you from printing, copying, accessing another URL/app or closing a Canvas quiz until it has been submitted. If your quiz has been set up using…
Using Respondus LockDown Browser with Canvas Quizzes
What is Respondus LockDown Browser? Respondus LockDown Browser (LDB) is a web browser which adds an additional layer of academic integrity to an exam by providing a secure, online environment for taking a quiz in Canvas. It prevents students from printing, copying, visiting other URLs/apps…
Desktop Assessment and Feedback Utilities
The adoption of Canvas as the Virtual Learning Environment at Queen’s has brought many benefits for assessment and feedback. Student submissions can be annotated with feedback comments and marking rubrics can be established to guide student efforts and speed up the grading and feedback process….
Using Turnitin within Canvas – common queries from staff and students
A Central University Turnitin Account has been created for Turnitin assignments created and submitted through Canvas. This allows classes, assignments and both staff and student users accounts to be created automatically in Turnitin without the need for any additional effort required by teaching/support staff. The integration also…
Scanning with Microsoft Lens
The following helpful guide and video instructions have been developed by Dr Dan Corbett in School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. VIDEO GUIDANCE: STEP BY STEP GUIDANCE: Step 1: Getting Started Ensure that you have the Microsoft Lens app installed on your phone –…
Feel the fear and do it anyway!
2 MDBS staff speak to their experience of using Canvas Quizzes (Submitted by Sean Roe and Samantha J Taylor, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences) Uses of Canvas Quizzes for Summative Assessment of Second Year Medical students Sean says:…
Video Feedback on Canvas
What is it? Providing timely and useful feedback to students on their work is important for so many reasons. We know that constructive feedback can help students improve their work and allows them to think critically about their progress as they move through a course…
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 Assignment Weighting There…
Lifting the Mask of Anonymous Grading
Canvas provides you with the option to enable anonymisation when setting up an assignment.
Steps To Prepare
Set Your Grade Posting Policy To Manual: The ‘Global Setting’ Level: In your Canvas course, click ‘Grades.’ Click the ‘Cogwheel’ (at top right-hand corner of the screen.) Click the ‘Grade Posting Policy’ tab. Ensure the radio button is set to ‘Manually Post Grades.’ Click…