Fall 24 Zoom Chats

This series of 45-minute workshops will cover essential topics for using Canvas effectively in your teaching.

All sessions are presented at 10:00am and 2:00 pm, unless otherwise noted.

August 28: Discussions

• Using discussions to create class interaction
• Graded vs. ungraded discussion
• Adding media/attachments to discussions

September 4: Quizzes-some old, mainly new 

• The differences between classic and new quizzes
• Creating a new quiz
• Quiz question types
• Designing quizzes to minimize plagiarism

September 11 (11:00 & 1:00): Quizzes-some old, mainly new 

• The differences between classic and new quizzes
• Creating a new quiz
• Quiz question types
• Designing quizzes to minimize plagiarism

• Why use pages?
• Creating pages
• Adding pages to a module
• Linking pages

• Why use the inbox?
• Organizing the inbox
• Communicating with the inbox

• View the grades and activity level of individual students or sub-groups
• Communicate based on academic performance, activity level, or engagement
• Generate reports and gain deeper insights into student learning
• Analytics vs. new analytics platform

• View the grades and activity level of individual students or sub-groups
• Communicate based on academic performance, activity level, or engagement
• Generate reports and gain deeper insights into student learning
• Analytics vs. new analytics platform

• Avoiding common gradebook mistakes
• The difference between a 0 and a-
• Common grade entry errors
• Common grade calculation mistakes (calculated total vs. weighted)
• Omitting highest and/or lowest grades (creating rules for an assignment group)

• Saving the gradebook before and after finals
• Ways to assign extra credit
• How to test that your weighted grades accurately reflect what you expect
• Submitting a request to combine courses (cross-listing) early