Make Canvas Work For You- Canvas Course Creation Tips for Faculty

  Canvas Course Creation Tips For Faculty  

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 Create a seamless sequence for course content with modules

• • • Web Resource: Canvas Guides- What are Modules? Links to an external site.

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 Set up Canvas groups to better organize group work and projects

• • • Web Resource: Canvas Guides- What are groups? Links to an external site.

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 Run an accessibility scan on your course via the UDOIT Accessibility Scanner

• • • Web Resource: UDOIT Module Tutorial

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 Use New Analytics to track student data and enable My Learning Analytics (MyLA) for students

• • • Web Resources:
      • • Canvas Guides- What are New Analytics? Links to an external site.
        • UM ITS Site- My Learning Analytics Links to an external site.

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 Additional Course Creation Tips:

• • • Create a Canvas Syllabus page that shows assignments, events, and due dates
      Web Resource: Canvas Guides- How do I use the Syllabus as an instructor? Links to an external site.

 

• • • Zoom Tip: Use the Canvas Zoom LTI for easy Zoom scheduling
      Web Resource: Setting Up Zoom in Canvas Links to an external site.

 

• • • Zoom Tip: Use the Dropbox integration to save Zoom recordings 
      Web Resource: ITS Site- Getting Started with the Zoom For Dropbox Integration Links to an external site.

 

• • • Hide items in the course navigation that you won’t be using
      Web Resource: Canvas Guides- How do I manage Course Navigation links? Links to an external site.

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