UTS academics designing subject sites in the learning management system (LMS) are recommended to follow the nine guiding principles. Each principle provides key benefits for students and staff. UTS aims for consistent site design across all sites within the LMS. The common layout of Canvas courses should be intuitive,...
A Canvas site for a new subject is preloaded with a Canvas subject shell. A Canvas subject shell includes: A subject homepage A Get started module, to help you orient students to your subject A sample module A checklist of things to do before your Canvas course gets published...
You need to generate the Subject Outline PDF for your subject in the Curriculum Information System (CIS) before accessing it through Canvas. Log into CIS (opens a UTS website). Follow the instructions on generating your Subject Outline on the the CIS help page (opens a UTS website). If you have one or more...
This model is suitable for: Fully online subject Online lectures and tutorials Any cohort size Subject with heavy theoretical contents The subject coordinator of 54052 Economy, Society and Globalism from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) needed to convert his subject into a fully online mode. He had never...
When using modules, it is helpful to think of your subject site as a textbook. Each module is a chapter with an overview, content, activities, reflections, and a summary. Each page is provided in a sequence for students to work through, though in the LMS you can add in...
A Group Set is a set of groups you create to use for assessment tasks, or to organise categories of groups. You can have up to 200 groups in a Group Set. When creating a group set via ‘+Group Set’, you can choose to: Allow students to sign up to a group within...
In Canvas, subject content and resources are presented to students on Pages. In addition, you can set up these pages to give open access to students, allowing them to contribute to and edit their own content – just like a wiki. Enable students to edit To do this, go to the...
The term ‘wiki’ is used to describe website pages that can be collaboratively edited by a community of users. The most prominent example of this in action is Wikipedia, essentially a collaboratively edited encyclopedia that is now one of the most ubiquitous sources of information on the internet. Because pages...
The Calendar sits above Inbox on your navigation menu: The Calendar automatically syncs with other features in Canvas, such as Assignments, Syllabus, and Grades so if you create, change, or delete the due date of an Assignment on the Calendar, it will show up in all the others and...
Conversations is accessed via the Inbox icon on the Global Navigation Menu. If you right-click (or option-click) on the Inbox icon, you can open your Conversations in a new browser tab to keep it handy while you are doing other tasks in Canvas. The video tutorial below (4:13) will...
