by Thomas Keith | Aug 24, 2022 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
As we prepare for Autumn Quarter and the 2022-23 academic year, now is a good time to familiarize yourself with new features available in Canvas. These features can help you to streamline your grading workflow, customize the look and feel of your Canvas site, and...
by Allison Kallo | Mar 22, 2022 | Canvas
We are making a slight change to the landing page for Canvas.uchicago.edu. Currently, when prompted to login to Canvas from Canvas.uchicago.edu, you are directed to: After Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 10am, users will be directed to courses.uchicago.edu to login. This...
by Thomas Keith | Feb 1, 2022 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
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...
by Thomas Keith | Oct 22, 2021 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
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...
by Thomas Keith | Oct 15, 2021 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
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...
by Allison Kallo | Oct 15, 2021 | Canvas, How-tos, Student
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...
by Thomas Keith | Jul 7, 2021 | Canvas
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...
by Sarah McDaniel | Jun 21, 2021 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos, Pedagogy
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...
by Thomas Keith | May 17, 2021 | Events
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...
by Ziting Wang | May 4, 2021 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, Pedagogy
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...
