Media assignment submission in Canvas
Canvas assignments, provides several different submission types. One of those submission types is a media recording, which can be used for video and audio submissions. Canvas provides the opportunity for students to have the option to upload a video or audio file, or use Canvas…
Dr John Topping: Feedback & ‘Feed Forward’ with Video and Audio Comments
Dr John Topping is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, with research specialising in the area of policing. He has been using audio and video feedback for student assignments for years. We interviewed him about the benefits…
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…
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.
Canvas Building Blocks
The Canvas Building Block Series was introduced in May with a number of one-hour, highly focused training sessions focused on building skills required to create an engaging course in Canvas. Delegates came prepared to ask questions and discover how to successfully leverage Canvas to enhance…
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!…
Getting your feet wet with Canvas….
Not know where to start with Canvas? We’ve created 4 super-short videos to help ease you into Canvas. This Sway video series will help you take your first initial steps to set up and structure your module: Importing Files (from Queens Online) into Canvas. (3…