Tag: Technology Tutorial

Supplement Office Hours with Canvas Appointment Groups

March 13, 2024 by Eva Grouling Snider

Supplement your office hours with in-person or virtual appointments that students can book straight through Canvas using Appointment Groups. Have you ever bemoaned the fact that students don’t come to your office hours? In this post, you’ll learn about a Canvas feature that can help you increase the amount of one-on-one time you get with […]

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Mediasite Videos: Recording and Embedding Made Easier

January 31, 2024 by Dan Jones

Updates to Mediasite make it easier to record videos, audio, and screencasts to provide media-rich content for your student and then embed the content Canvas. Two updates to Mediasite have provided an easier recording process and upgraded features in Canvas. The first update is Mediasite Capture, a browser-based recorder that will make recording videos, audio, […]

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Engage Your Learners’ Curiosity with a Course Podcast

December 6, 2023 by Cheri Madewell

Spark your students’ curiosity and sustain their interest in the course with a podcast made by you. Your students are probably listening to podcasts. A recent (2022) Pew Research Center survey found that two-thirds of Americans ages 18 to 29 listened to a podcast in the past 12 months. How might you tap into your […]

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How to Use ChatGPT as an Ideation Partner (for You and Your Students)

November 8, 2023 by Eva Grouling Snider

Learn how to use ChatGPT to help you (or your students) quickly and creatively generate and explore ideas. Most of the higher ed discourse about ChatGPT centers on its ability to produce human-readable text. However, much more fertile ground can be found in using ChatGPT as part of the learning process. For example, ChatGPT can […]

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Gamify Your Course with Twine

November 1, 2023 by Shane Lanning (they/them)

Learn how you can utilize Twine to create interactive, gamified course materials. As faculty consider strategies for increasing student enthusiasm for learning, many are turning to gamification. For a lot of us, this has taken on a few different forms. We have either assigned an existing game for students to play or utilized game-like features […]

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Reducing the Grading Workload for Low-stakes Assignments with the Set Default Grade Tool

September 13, 2023 by John Carter

Learn how to use the Set Default Grade feature in Canvas’s Gradebook to lighten the grading workload. Whenever a new semester or academic year rolls around, I always find myself thinking about how I get work done and how I can most efficiently approach the grading in the weeks and months ahead of me. With […]

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Utilizing Canvas for Collaborative Learning

September 6, 2023 by Shane Lanning (they/them)

Learn about Canvas tools for facilitating meaningful group work in your class. One of the first articles I wrote for the Teaching Innovation Blog was about students’ shared frustrations for collaborative learning and how we might overcome some of the challenges that group work presents in our classrooms. In that piece, I explained that despite […]

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Creating a Reflective Space in Canvas

March 1, 2023 by Shane Lanning (they/them)

Learn how to set up a dynamic reflective space for your learners through the creative use of built-in Canvas tools. Reflection has been a huge part of my learning, and I engage my students in some of that deep thought in my courses. I value reflection because it provides learners and instructors with the opportunity […]

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New in Canvas: Make Quick Buttons with Icon Maker

December 7, 2022 by Eva Grouling Snider

Learn how to use a new Canvas design feature to create quick buttons or icons for common course items, such as Syllabus and Grades. Want to quickly and easily make buttons to help your students navigate your course? With the new Icon Maker in Canvas, you can have buttons like these up and running in […]

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New in Canvas: Organize Your Grades with Enhanced Gradebook Filters

November 2, 2022 by Eva Grouling Snider

Frustrated by your Canvas Gradebook? This new feature can help you organize your grades to see exactly what you need to see when you need to see it. Frequent, low-stakes, formative assessments are good teaching practices in all classes, online and in-person. Assessments such as activities, weekly quizzes, peer reviews, scaffolded assignments, reflections, and group […]

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