What’s New in Canvas, February 2022
In the past few months, Canvas has added a number of new and updated features that you may find useful. In this post, we will review the most salient features and explain how you can use them in your courses. View Word Count in SpeedGrader for Text Entry Assignments...
What’s New in Canvas: October 2021
There are a number of new features in Canvas this month that you may find useful. In this post, we will offer a summary of the most salient features that Canvas has recently added. Sticky Navigation Menus SpeedGrader: Edit Submission Status Labels Gradebook: Search...
Find and Use the Panopto Course Folder in Your Canvas Course
If your students are unable to see Panopto videos in your Canvas course, it may be because those videos are located in the incorrect folder. In this post, we will outline the difference between the main Panopto course folder and the Assignments subfolder, and explain...
Students: Sign Up for an Appointment in Canvas
Have your instructors asked you to sign up for office hours or an appointment in Canvas? This article will detail how to find available appointment times, reserve an appointment, add notes, and un-reserve your time. To find appointments in Canvas, select the calendar...
Regular Canvas Maintenance Window Beginning Thursday, July 15
Beginning on Thursday, July 15, 2021, Canvas is implementing regular maintenance windows for each of its customer regions. These windows will fall on the first and third Thursdays of each month. Each window will last for two hours, although it is not expected that...
Expanded Student Annotation Assignment Options in Canvas
With an updated release of Canvas that launched in mid-May, instructors now have access to an additional Assignment format on Canvas: Student Annotation Assignments. With the addition of Student Annotation Assignments to the suite of resources supported through...
Global Accessibility Awareness Day Is May 20
Thursday, May 20, 2021, is the tenth annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), which focuses on digital equality for the one billion people in the world with a disability. GAAD activities at the University of Chicago are coordinated by the Center for Digital...
A Tale of Two Online Quizzing Tools: Choosing between Canvas Quizzes and Gradescope Online Assignments
Online quizzes can be a good way to help students assess their learning. Faculty and instructors can now choose from two different options--Canvas Quizzes and Gradescope’s online quizzing tool, which the company calls “Online Assignments”. Though their functions and...
Digital Pedagogy Events for March 1-5, 2021
The week of March 1-5 will feature numerous events on topics in digital pedagogy. Come to learn more about Zoom, Panopto, the social annotation tool Hypothes.is, and the classroom polling tool Poll Everywhere. All workshops and discussions will be held online via...