by Berlin Fang | Apr 24, 2020 | Canvas, Tips
If your students are taking your course in a different time zone, you can ask them to change their Canvas to the local time zone. Here is a video that shows students how to make that change. To fully take advantage of the automatic adjustments in Canvas, you as a...
by Berlin Fang | Apr 3, 2020 | Canvas, Tips
You upload a video to Studio for your course, and Studio can give you any random thumbnail (cover photo). If you upload a video recording from your Zoom meeting, the video will be named Zoom0, which isn’t descriptive either. Check the following video to see how...
by Berlin Fang | Mar 23, 2020 | Canvas, Tips, tools
If you need to accommodate needs for differentiated times in quizzes for students due to time zone difference, special needs, excused absences, or any other special circumstances, you can do so fairly easily in Canvas quizzes. Check the video to learn how:
by Berlin Fang | Mar 23, 2020 | Canvas, Tips
You can turn a PPT or Keynote file directly into a movie and then share it in Canvas. In the following video, I am going to show you how to do it in PPT. The method is the same in Keynote. One advantage of Keynote is that it will automatically hide the thumbnails...
by Berlin Fang | Feb 10, 2020 | Canvas, Tips, tools
When you want to import a specific item (page, assignment, quiz, discussion, etc) with yourself or your colleague, you had to use course export/import or Canvas Commons in the past. Canvas has a new feature update now that allows faculty members to share single items...
by Berlin Fang | Feb 7, 2020 | Canvas, Tips, tools
If you have some prerequisite skills that you would like students to acquire without taking up class time, you can automate the teaching of that content in Canvas. We recently worked with the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department in setting up a course...
