Online course orientation module for students

If you will be teaching an online course, please remember that some of your students may not have had any experience with online learning or Canvas.  I strongly recommend that you send a welcome message to them before course starts.  I have drafted sample message for...

6 Canvas Hacks for the Happy Grader

As you grade student work, here are a few suggestions about Canvas grading that may make your work easier. When you are in the process of grading, you might want to “mute assignment” and unmute it when all grades have been entered.  This could save some...

Canvas Is Getting a New Look!

A new Canvas user interface (UI) will be rolled out on Saturday, June 18th, 2016 at 8:00AM, which we found to be the best time for the change after reviewing the summer schedules of both the Abilene and Dallas campuses. What will change? The change will be Mostly...

Introduction to SIPX

Guest post by Mark McCallon ACU is trying out a new tool for course Readings called SIPX in Canvas.  Through this helpful tool, faculty can find readings that they want to use, whether the library owns the book or has access to the journal or not.  Using SIPX’s...

Paths to personalized learning

In February, 2016, I worked with Dr. Alexander Romiszowski of Syracuse University in writing a series of articles about personalized learning for World Innovation Summit for Education’s Ed Review.  In this series we put the much-hyped personalized learning in...