by Mohammad Ahmed | Nov 5, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
“How can Canvas help me analyze how my students are doing?” Analytics Beta is a new Canvas tool that provides better analytics for tracking student data. It has an interactive chart or table which allows you to customize views of data and filter for specific items. ...
by Mohammad Ahmed | Oct 26, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
“How can Canvas help mitigate grading bias with Anonymous and Moderated Grading?” Canvas can help mitigate bias in grading student work with two features: anonymous grading and moderated grading. There are many benefits to setting up “blind” or anonymous grading. By...
by Mohammad Ahmed | Aug 6, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
“How do I get rid of old courses and see new courses?” As new quarters begin, we often want to clean up our Canvas sites and move old courses. Obviously we don’t want to scroll through pages and pages of old courses just to find one course. Fortunately, Canvas has an...
by Mohammad Ahmed | May 17, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions
“How do I know my students can see this?” Often faculty spend large amounts of time and energy designing their courses but aren’t sure how it will look from the student perspective. We frequently hear questions such as: “Will my students be...
by Mohammad Ahmed | Mar 21, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions
Note: This post was updated 7/26/2019 to reflect changes in roles that are available when manually adding users. Introduction Canvas offers a great deal of flexibility in the roles it provides for students and instructors. The permissions attached to each role...
