Preparing for Academic Year 20/21
This time last year the university was preparing to roll-out Canvas to students at the start of the academic year 19/20. One year on and we have 2, 483 modules in Canvas as well as a wide range of approaches to learning, teaching and assessment…
Accessible design for learner variability:
Text Documents, Word and PDF When planning for alternative approaches to assessment which the University are advising at this time, it is more important than ever to ensure all documents designed and developed are inclusive and accessible to all students. This blog post outlines how to ensure…
Set Up and Administration of Assignments
Make the instructions clear and unambiguous: In your Canvas course, click ‘Assignments.’ Click ‘+Assignment’ to start setting up your assignment. Give your assignment a title e.g. ‘Alternative Assignment…’ and enter all the ‘instructions to students’ into the into the box below. Give simple and…
Marking Submissions
Make sure all markers have access to the Canvas course in advance: Contact your school admin staff to add/amend staff roles (Teacher, TA, etc) in QSIS, these will transfer over to Canvas within 24-48 hours. For more information on Canvas roles. If you need…
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.’…
Caveats for using SCORM in Canvas
What is SCORM? The word SCORM is an acronym which stands for Shareable Content Object Reference Model. It is a set of technical specifications developed to provide a common approach to how eLearning content is developed and used across various platforms. SCORMS allows Canvas VLE…
How to Migrate Your Canvas Course to Next Year
The learning materials that you have created in the current semester/academic year on Canvas will NOT automatically rollover into next terms/years Canvas Course. Below are the steps for you to do this. Steps to migrate Canvas content The steps are very easy and you may…
Understanding the Canvas Gradebook Export
When set up appropriately, Canvas has the ability to track your student grades and enables you to take a downloadable export of the Canvas Gradebook. When you export your Canvas Gradebook there will be several columns visible which can be difficult to interpret and evaluate…
Getting Started with Canvas New Analytics
This blog post describes the Canvas New Analytics feature and provides links to additional support resources. What is New Analytics? Canvas New Analytics is a learning analytics tool that allows you to filter and compare student cohorts and individuals to class averages, for all grade-based…
5 Top Tips for setting up Canvas assignments
The following post provides the top 5 recommended settings to consider regarding the set-up of Canvas assignments. 1. Hide totals in student grades summary By default, students can see their grade total column in Canvas. That means that Canvas calculates the students total based on…