Preventing Cheating in Canvas, Part 1: Files and Modules
Whether you're distributing course documents or giving quizzes, it's important to make sure that the materials on your Canvas course site are secure. Making sensitive materials too easily available increases the risk of academic dishonesty among your...
Canvas Day 2018 Recap
On April 25th, Academic Technology Solutions hosted Canvas Day 2018 in the Regenstein Library. This year's Canvas Day was formatted as a half-day conference with two tracks of programming. The main sessions in room 122 included presentations from faculty on a wide...
Canvas Student View as a Tool for Faculty
"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 able to download the...
UChicago’s Canvas Survey: The Results
In Winter Quarter 2018, the Academic Technology Solutions group conducted online surveys of University of Chicago students and faculty/instructors to see how they’re using the newly adopted Canvas learning management system, what they think of Canvas so...
Encouraging Creativity, Collaboration, and Engagement with Class Blogs – Part 2
“The [blog] site was friendly and easy to use, especially with media and clips. It looked great [...]. More than anything, it made conversation and discussion so much better: easier to navigate, access and respond to posts, easier to find the discussion board,...
Encouraging Creativity, Collaboration, and Engagement with Class Blogs – Part 1
“The [blog] site was friendly and easy to use, especially with media and clips. It looked great [...]. More than anything, it made conversation and discussion so much better: easier to navigate, access and respond to posts, easier to find the discussion board,...
RSVP for Canvas Day 2018!
“I want to be able to edit/write comments on uploaded documents (papers) directly in SpeedGrader." -- Instructor “I wish the Discussions feature [were] utilized more -- my professors use the one-sided Announcements, but rarely use the interactive Discussions...
Manually Adding People and Course Roles in Canvas
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...
The Grading Crunch: How Canvas Can Help
Grading assignments is often one of the most time-consuming aspects of teaching. When an instructor has many lengthy assignments to grade in a short span of time, it can be difficult to leave helpful and thorough comments on each. A November 2017 article in the...