Spring 2025 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.

January 15: Intermediate: Modules

• Module overview
• Elements of effective modules
• Adding content
• Locking modules
• Using prerequisites and requirements to view student progress

January 29: Intermediate: Assignment Groups 

• Why use assignment groups?
• Adding assignment groups
• Weighting by assignment groups
• Adding grading rules by assignment groups (drop highest/lowest grade, etc.)

February 5: Using Rubrics 

• Why use rubrics?
• Managing rubrics
• Adding rubrics to an assignment, discussion or quiz

• Overview of New Quizzes
• Creating a new quiz
• Quiz question types
• Designing quizzes to minimize plagiarism

• Overview
• Creating new pages
• Adding pages to a module
• Embedding video on a page
• Viewing page history

• Overview
• Creating groups
• Managing groups
• The relationship between groups and group assignments
• Assigning students as group leaders

• 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