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. ‘Demo Assignment’ and enter all the ‘instructions to students’ into the into the box below. Give simple and…
Canvas Course Term Dates
At the end of each Academic Year, courses in Canvas will become read-only. The below table outlines the dates courses are placed in a read-only state by default: Academic Year Default Term Dates in Canvas Start Date End Date AY 2019/2020 (QSIS ref: 2191)…
Marking Submissions In Speedgrader and Releasing Grades/Feedback in Gradebook
1. Make sure all markers have access to the Canvas course in advance: Contact your school admin staff to add or amend staff roles (Teacher, TA, etc) in QSIS, these will transfer over to Canvas within 24-48 hours. For more information on Canvas roles….
Getting Started with Canvas New Analytics
This blog post briefly introduces the Canvas New Analytics feature and provides links to additional support materials. What is New Analytics? Canvas New Analytics will be available in September 2020 and is a tool that allows you to filter and compare individual student data and…
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…
The case for disconnectedness
In this post I argue that, in a connected learning environment, being disconnected is essential to being productive as well as caring for yourself. Enquiring about the well-being of one of the School of Nursing and Midwifery CPAD students recently she told me the following,…
Building Postgraduate Communities
The Graduate School delivers a varied community and wellbeing programme to its postgraduates throughout the year. From the initial COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020 we ensured translating these events online was at the forefront of our programme planning and promotion. Lifting our face-to-face delivery format…
Blackboard Ally and Canvas
What is Blackboard Ally? Blackboard Ally is a tool that integrates seamlessly with Canvas to make your digital content more accessible. It is now available in all Canvas courses (January 2021). It automatically checks course materials against WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards. It gauges the accessibility of your…
Show & Tell Session (Dec 2020)
Theme: Building Online Community The Digital Learning Teams from across the institution facilitate monthly Show & Tell webinars, where staff are invited to share their own experiences of online and blended teaching. On Thursday 3rd December the theme of ‘Building Online Community’ was the focus at the Online Teaching Show &…
One New Thing: Interactive Hotspot Questions
Many of us have used Turningpoint (“PRS”) and may associate it with the infuriating error “TurningPoint Desktop has detected an open version of PowerPoint” or dragging around boxes of clickers, but some updates have come along to make our lives easier: A new release, “Turningpoint Web”…