Adding Teaching Assistants to Courses

Canvas is synced to Banner to make sure student, teacher and TA records are consistent across systems. To add co-teacher or students to a course, you may need to contact the registrar’s office.  Click here to find how. You can, however, add a TA to your course...

Alternative uses of your voice

If you hear me speaking to myself in my office, it is not a sign that I am getting crazy. I might be “typing”.  Voice recognition technologies have made it possible for us to input by simply speaking. Here are a few examples: “Type” on a mobile...

Instructional Uses of “Spark”

Some of you may have heard of “Adobe Voice”, a super-easy way to create a digital story with graphics and perhaps some background music. Some of our faculty and students have already been using it. Adobe also had a tool called Adobe Slate that you can use...

Customizing Entry Page for the Canvas App

If you use Canvas app, you might notice that it shows all the courses you have taught since we started to use Canvas. You can get rid of some of the clutter fairly easily. Please check this tutorial for more information.

Using Turnitin LTI in Canvas

Turnitin and Canvas are phasing out the Turnitin API tool in Canvas.  Instead, you are encouraged to use the LTI tool. When is the change taking place? In order to minimize disruption, we no longer turn on the API tool when switching to the new Canvas user interface...