Submission displaying in Turnitin but not in Canvas?
Have you discovered submissions that are visible in Turnitin but not in Canvas? Or have students reported that they have submitted an assignment but it is not visible in Canvas? This has likely been caused by a student submitting directly through the Turnitin website, rather…
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…
The New Canvas Gradebook
The New Gradebook will be available for all Queen’s University staff with permitting access, from Friday 16th August. This change is providing enhanced functionality and flexibility to improve the grading experience. All the existing Gradebook functionality will remain. What’s NEW? 1. SAVE TIME AND INCREASE…
How to Add your Reading List to Canvas
The Library’s Reading List checking Service The Library subject teams provide a reading list checking service. This service ensures that books, journal articles and scanned extracts needed for a module are accessible at the beginning of each semester. To avail of this service, create your…
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…
Top Tips for June
Hello Canvas geniuses. Have a look at the Top Tips for this month! PDF download available at the bottom of this post.
10 Top Tips for Creating Accessible Content in Canvas
When you create a blank page in Canvas you will have access to the Rich Content Editor. This provides you with a variety of formatting tools and functionality, so you can design and create rich content pages for your subject. Read these 10 Top Tips…
Three Things – Dr Dan Corbett
At the outset of this post, I should state that I haven’t had the pleasure of being an early adopter of Canvas, which makes this post a little bit different to the other “Three Things” posts which you might have read so far! Having recently…
Top Tips Special Edition
We all make mistakes…but you can avoid the most common mistakes when building your first Canvas course! Check out this special edition of Canvas Top Tips. A downloadable PDF version is at the bottom of this post if you prefer your top tips to go!…