Grading Efficiently with Canvas
You can do a lot more than collecting assignments, entering grades, and weighting grades in Canvas (see our blog post on Tips on Managing Assignments and Grades in Canvas). In fact, Canvas’ Gradebook, Speedgrader, online Rubrics, and communication tools can help you...
Scheduling Office Hours in Canvas: An Introduction
Canvas allows instructors to schedule blocks of time for office hours within your Canvas Calendar. When you create an Appointment Group (Canvas' term for a block of time designated on the Calendar for appointments), your students can then sign up through your Canvas...
Canvas Updates and Changes: Year in Review + Looking Forward
Canvas releases new features and bug fixes every three weeks. This means that faculty, instructors, and students can expect problems with the software to be fixed more quickly, but it also means that users have to learn to be flexible and expect that the interface may...
Canvas’ New Gradebook: Features and Tips
Note: This post was updated May 1, 2019, to reflect changes in the New Gradebook. Canvas' New Gradebook is now available for instructors to enable on a course-by-course basis. You can enable the New Gradebook for a course you are teaching by going to Course...
Tips for Quickly Building Your Course Site
Constructing a new course site and organizing your course materials can be a time-consuming process -- but it doesn't have to be. Canvas offers tools that can streamline the process, cutting down substantially on the time and effort needed to set up your course...
Weighting Grades, Giving Extra Credit, and Other Tips on Managing Assignments and Grades in Canvas
Canvas provides a fully functional gradebook that can help both instructors and students to keep track of their progress in a course. Once you figure out its few quirks, you will be able to manage grades with ease. I. Some Terminology: Assignment Groups vs....
Introducing the New Scheduler
Canvas' New Scheduler is now live! The New Scheduler allows instructors to create Appointment Groups and schedule office hours directly from their course calendar. In the previous Scheduler, if you wished to add an Appointment Group, it was necessary to click the...
Customizing Your Canvas Dashboard
“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...
Sending Announcements to Specific Sections in Canvas
Section-specific announcements are now available in Canvas! Instructors can now select whether to send announcements to all sections, a single section, or multiple sections. By default, the announcement will be sent to all sections of your course. However, to select...