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....
The Discussions Index page, available from the Discussions link in the Course Navigation menu, has global settings at the top of the page (see in the image below), followed by the Discussion groups . Individual discussions are nested within each Discussion group . You can embed discussions 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...
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...
In the Faculty of Engineering and IT, before the first internship placement, your intern will have completed subjects that cover technical knowledge as well as foundational skills such as working collaboratively with others. Prospective interns will have completed a preparation subject. Your intern(s) will have prepared a work plan,...
Feedback can help the intern and the supervisor assess and adjust tasks, learning goals, workload, and progress towards a deadline. Giving feedback is one thing but it is not complete without a response from the person receiving the feedback. Motivations to give feedback could be, for example, to help...
Workplace learning Errors, mistakes, and known problems are all learning opportunities for the intern. The best learning happens when we have time to reflect on an experience, an observation, a problem to think how things could be improved, done differently to try again and to have opportunities to test...
What can I get my intern to do? Your intern should be given a range of work tasks and opportunities to understand your organisation and engineering practices. Variety is the spice of life and of work! Some tasks can be completed as part of a team project or a...
The supervisor role As a supervisor you: provide training and guidance on a task/procedure create a positive learning environment monitor workload and pace of work organise for the intern to shadow some staff doing their work and to interview some staff about their work meet regularly with the intern(s)...
