Quick Tips Blog

Now that the semester is fully underway, we wanted to reach out to see how things are going and remind you that you have a team of four instructional designers ready to support you.

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This week we are highlighting some recent changes and new features in the Canvas Gradebook.

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Virtual Drop-in Hours for students are a popular way to increase attendance.  Students can reach out to you without driving to campus or struggling to find your office. A good place to add a link is on the home page under instructor contact information.

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The start of a new semester means updating and sharing your syllabi with your students.  Canvas gives instructors a dedicated place to post their course syllabus and related information -- aptly named the “Syllabus” page -- which you and your students can access from the course navigation menu on the left.

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Here is a tip from the RCID team to help you avoid getting unexpectedly logged out of Canvas. Instead of logging into Canvas via the icon in FlashLine, get into the habit of logging into Canvas directly at canvas.kent.edu in a completely NEW browser session.

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Canvas includes several ways to connect with your students and provide valuable feedback on their work.  Check out the tools and strategies below.

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The New Analytics tool allows instructors to view average course grades, course activity, and individual student participation and progress. Instructors can also use the tool to generate useful reports and communicate with students.

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As a wrap up to our Canvas Quizzes Quick Tip theme over the last month, we are sharing instructions for how to set up makeup quizzes for individual students.  Pay special attention to Steps 4-5 in the Reopen the Quiz section to avoid the issue of disappearing grades!

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The Quick Tip quiz saga continues, and our trilogy concludes this week with a focus on Canvas New Quizzes. 

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Last week, we took a comparative view of Classic vs. New Quizzes in Canvas.  This week, we’re taking a deeper dive into the Classic Quiz tool, including how to create the quiz, configure the settings and accommodations, preview and publish, and handle grading and makeups. 

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You say po-tā-toe, I say pot-ah-toe. You say, “tests, exams, assessments,” Canvas Panda says, “Classic and New Quizzes.”  

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Canvas has a helpful tool to allow instructors to see exactly what their students see in the course.

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Canvas gives a great way to share content with our students, but it can be a struggle to keep up with all of the digital resources and weblinks over time.  We can leverage the Link Validator tool in Canvas to quickly identify broken links so that we can fix them before they become a problem for students.

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Roll Call Attendance is a tool that allows instructors to take student attendance electronically via a list of student names or a seating chart grid. The Attendance tool can be used for both online and face-to-face courses.

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Course accessibility is a time-sensitive activity.  Throughout the course's development, you can take small steps to make course materials accessible, so when a student needs accommodation, it is available. Captioning videos can even help students who do not have an accommodation, for instance, if they do not know how to spell a term, cannot have the volume on, or simply learn better by reading.

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We hope you are having a great first week of classes!  For this week’s Quick Tip, we’re sending a reminder about the Canvas Dashboard and course enrollments.  Make sure to bookmark the updated ticket links below as these have changed since last semester.

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We hope you had a wonderful and restful winter break!  As our first Quick Tip of the new year, we wanted to share a great resource that will help you get your Spring 2023 courses “Canvas-Ready!”

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We hope the end of the semester is going smoothly for everyone.  We’re writing with some reminders and updates that we hope you will find helpful as we close out the fall semester and begin preparing for spring.

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Do you have a student taking an incomplete this semester?  The most common way instructors handle incompletes in Canvas is to extend student access to their course beyond the end of the term so that the student can submit the remaining work. 

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We are approaching that time of year when we start preparing for the upcoming semester.  Learn how to copy content from your previous Canvas courses.

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