Technology: Canvas

Canvas grades submission process

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To complete the Grades process, you need to make sure you’ve set up assignments correctly at the start of the session and run through a few checks at the end before grades are approved and transferred.  The Gradebook Total column in Canvas automatically calculates the combined total of student...

How to maximise the potential of Canvas for online learning

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Talk to text A simple way to adapt a lecture for online delivery is to write it down. In this example, a guest lecturer has annotated their slides, providing a detailed yet engaging commentary that guides students through the learning materials. While being precise and thoroughly referenced, the text is relatively informal in style to help students feel directly addressed....

Create questions for online exams in Canvas

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The following resource is for timed LMS and AI-invigilated exams. To get started, it’s recommended that you set up your exam questions in question banks first. Once set up, it is simple to populate a Canvas quiz using the questions created. If you have already created a quiz or...

Upload media files with Kaltura My Media

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Navigate to your Canvas site and find ‘My Media‘ in the menu on the left side: Locate the ‘Add New‘ button in the top right section of the screen and select your preferred media upload from the drop down menu: To upload your own media, simply click on ‘Media Upload‘...

Add media to a Canvas page with Kaltura browse and embed

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Go to the Canvas Page where you’d like to embed your media and select ‘Edit’ to access the Rich Content Editor. Select Tools from the toolbar above the text entry box, then Apps. Select Embed Kaltura Media. If you don’t see Embed Kaltura Media, select View All, then select...

Social Poll in Canvas

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A poll can be embedded anywhere Canvas supports the Rich Content Editor. While editing content: Select Apps in the Rich Content Editor (the plug icon). If the Social Poll is one of your most frequently used tools in Canvas, it will appear in the shortcut menu in the Apps list....

Comments Box in Canvas

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A poll can be embedded anywhere Canvas supports the Rich Content Editor. While editing content: Select Apps in the Rich Content Editor (the plug icon) If the Comments Box is one of your most frequently used tools in Canvas, it will appear in the shortcut menu in the Apps list....

Announcements in Canvas

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Manage Announcements You can manage your announcements with the Announcements Index page. The screenshot below shows both sections of the Announcements Index page. Global settings can be changed by using the section at the top of the page (marked with a 1). Individual announcements are shown below this section...

Add questions to a Canvas quiz

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The following resource will provides a step by step guide to setting up a quiz shell, adding questions from a question bank and, if required, randomising the questions using question groups. Follow the instructions in the resource Create questions for online exams in Canvas if you have not already...

Chat in Canvas

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Any user in the Canvas course can view and participate in a chat, but they must be actively viewing the chat to appear in the chat user list. Note that if there are a lot of students using Chat at the same time, it may be a little slow....

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