Quick Tips Blog

Did you know that Canvas can alert you when a student clicks on a broken link in your course?  These notifications can help you catch and fix broken links quickly.

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In this Quick Tip, we will discuss how instructors can add extra credit in their Canvas courses.  It’s a question the RCID team has received from faculty regularly over the years, so we thought it would be good to share more broadly.

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 In this Quick Tip, we would like to showcase a few options for creating and delivering engaging announcements in your course.

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 In our last Quick Tip, we directed you to a helpful new resource for instructors as they consider course design and learning activities.  

We are happy to promote a series of workshops offered by the Kent State Online team to further support those looking to apply the concepts from the Design, Build, and Teach pathways. 

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Introducing the new Design, Build, Teach Pathways, a series of asynchronous, self-paced Canvas courses that guide you through foundational concepts and best practices for online teaching.  These courses have been designed to accommodate a variety of learning preferences with various options for participation.

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By now, you’ve learned all about how to leverage Canvas Modules, Pages, and the Rich Content Editor (RCE) to improve how course materials are presented and how students view and interact with the content.

In this final installment, we are taking a look at the letter E in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for Editor Tips and Tricks.  We know that working with any online text editor can present some challenges, so we’d like to share the team’s favorite tips and tricks for working with the Rich Content Editor (RCE) more efficiently. 

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Welcome back to the IMPROVE series of Quick Tips.  Today we’re looking at the letter V in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for UniVersal Design Tips.  Okay, yes, we took some liberties with that one, but bear with us -- acronyms are tricky to come up with!

We’ve focused the last few weeks on creating page content via text and various kinds of media.  We’ve touched on accessibility throughout, but we wanted to take a week to highlight universal design strategies that can help make your Canvas content accessible not only for those with differing abilities, but for ALL learners.

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Welcome back to Part 5 of our IMPROVE series. We’re on to the letter O in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for Other Content Types.

Last time, we discussed how to use the Rich Content Editor (RCE) to present textual content within Pages in your Canvas courses. In Part 5, we will expand on embedding other types of content and media.

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Welcome back to Part 4 of our IMPROVE series.  We’re on to the letter R in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for Rich Content Editor (RCE).

So far, we’ve created a modular course structure and begun creating individual Pages to house our content. Now it’s finally time to start adding the text, files, links, images, videos, and more that make up your online course content.  

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Welcome back to Part 3 of our IMPROVE series.  We’re on to the letter P in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for Pages!

We’ve spent a lot of time talking about Modules so far, and for good reason -- they create the overall structure of the course content.  Now that we have established that structure, we can move into creating the content for those modules.  In this post, we will discuss the purpose of Pages, how to create them, and how to add them to your modules.

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Welcome back to Part 2 of our IMPROVE series.  If you recall our acronym from our last post, you’ll remember that the M in IMPROVE stands for Modules Overview.  In this post, we will discuss the purpose of modules, how students navigate them, and how to create a module structure in your own courses.

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In this 7-part series, we will cover how to leverage Canvas Modules, Pages, and the Rich Content Editor (RCE) to improve how course materials are presented and how students view and interact with the content.  While we delve into these tools, we’ll also discuss how utilizing them in certain ways can improve course organization, simplify navigation, and increase accessibility and usability of your content.

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This is the final installment of the Regional Campus Instructional Design team’s 5-week series on communication, and MAGIC is our acronym that will help you engage and connect with your students.  This week is C: Comment Library.

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The Regional Campus Instructional Design team is continuing our 5-week series on communication and MAGIC is our acronym that will help you engage and connect with your students.  This week is I: Inbox.

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The Regional Campus Instructional Design team is continuing our 5-week series on communication and MAGIC is our acronym that will help you engage and connect with your students.  This week is G: Grade Comments.

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The Regional Campus Instructional Design team is continuing our 5-week series on communication and MAGIC is our acronym that will help you engage and connect with your students.  This week is A: Announcements.

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There is a new emphasis on engagement and belonging when it comes to all education. A little MAGIC can help tremendously. The RCID team is doing a 5-week series on communication and MAGIC is our acronym that will help you engage and connect with your students.  

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Canvas recently released a new feature for New Quizzes which uses the “Allow multiple attempts” options. "Build on Last Attempt" is a game-changing new feature within New Quizzes.

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All faculty and students have access to the Turnitin tool through Canvas.  This tool can be used to identify potential plagiarism, AI-assisted writing, and inconsistencies from what would be found in a typical paper. Turnitin can also be used to help your students check their drafts for issues before final submission.

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Fall semester is in full swing and we hope this week's Tip will save you some clicks.  Instructors can now publish and unpublish all modules, or individual items within modules, in bulk. For instructors using weekly released modules, or copying content to a new course, bulk publishing and unpublishing will save valuable time. 

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