{"id":3665,"date":"2015-04-08T09:47:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T14:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2015-04-08T09:47:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T14:47:34","slug":"canvas-pilot-users-on-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/2015\/04\/08\/canvas-pilot-users-on-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"Canvas pilot users on Canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March we conducted a Canvas pilot user roundtable session to gather current users\u2019 experiences in using Canvas. \u00a0We have a very engaged group of users in Spring 2015, who are making great usage of Canvas in their teaching, including some advanced features.<\/p>\n<p>Our pilot groups are particularly impressed with the following characteristics of Canvas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can create multiple sections, especially for students who may be in different time zones.<\/li>\n<li>You can give extra time or attempts for quizzes for students with special needs, without having to create alternative sets of quizzes.<\/li>\n<li>The system is fairly intuitive.<\/li>\n<li>The 24\/7 Help team from Canvas is fairly responsive and helpful, though few people have needed it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We asked our participants: what would you say to new users? \u00a0Here are some highlights of the discussion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Learn from existing users.<\/b> \u00a0Consult one of your colleagues who are using Canvas now. \u00a0If you don\u2019t know who in your department is currently using it, contact Marisa Beard or Lyndell Lee.<\/li>\n<li>Ask to <b>schedule a tutorial session<\/b> for your department. \u00a0\u00a0Contact Berlin Fang if you need to have such a session set up.<\/li>\n<li><b>Make use of the Canvas 24\/7 help<\/b>, especially the chat function, to address issues. \u00a0You can click on \u201cHelp\u201d on the upper right corner of the page to find help information.<\/li>\n<li><b>Organize with modules. \u00a0<\/b>Use modules to design your courses, which will get your content organized for students.<\/li>\n<li><b>Create question banks before quizzes.<\/b> If you have tests online, start building them as test banks. \u00a0Build quizzes later. \u00a0It is easier to build quizzes based on question banks. \u00a0\u00a0It is more difficult to reverse the order, though not impossible.<\/li>\n<li><b>Look around. <\/b>\u00a0When you are building your course content, look around as some Canvas navigation items may be towards the far right side of the page or down at the bottom.<\/li>\n<li><b>Don\u2019t write dates, set them.<\/b> \u00a0You can save yourself a lot of time by not mentioning particular dates in your content pages or files. \u00a0Instead, use such language as \u201ccheck your course syllabus\/calendar\/assignments\u201d for due dates. Setting dates in discussions, assignments, quizzes and other course items will make it easier for students to see when something is due without having to dig out the information from a \u00a0\u00a0document. \u00a0Besides, you will not have to edit these dates multiple times.<\/li>\n<li><b>Articulate tech requirements<\/b> to students at the start of a class. \u00a0If you use apps such as Notability and Polls in class, you might want to mention this in your course. \u00a0Create a page in Canvas with the links to such apps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We also asked: \u00a0\u201cWhat would be some lessons you want to warn other users about?\u201d Here are some responses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As this is a new system, some of our participants do not know whether they are using it \u201ccorrectly\u201d? \u00a0To address such concern, it is a good idea to contact the instructional design team (Berlin Fang and David Christianson) to make sure.<\/li>\n<li>Turnitin integration in Canvas is a little tricky. \u00a0When you add a Turnitin assignment, do not add \u201cexternal tool\u201d. \u00a0Add \u201cassignment\u201d first, and for submission type, choose \u201cexternal tool\u201d. \u00a0Then click in the blank field under it, and Turnitin LTI will show up as a choice.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple answers automatically give people partial credit, without providing an \u201call or nothing\u201d feature. \u00a0Canvas has been notified of the issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March we conducted a Canvas pilot user roundtable session to gather current users\u2019 experiences in using Canvas. \u00a0We have a very engaged group of users in Spring 2015, who are making great usage of Canvas in their teaching, including some advanced features. 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