InstructureCon0017: Connecting with the Canvas Community in Colorado
We recently returned from the Canvas conference in Colorado. As well as enjoying the stunningly beautiful locale with white marquee tents highlighted against the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains, we had...
View ArticleHow to: Communications in Canvas
One of the strengths of Canvas, is the opportunity to promote engagement and learning between staff and students and between students themselves, with a range of communication options. Discussions,...
View ArticleHow to: Use Announcements in Canvas
Announcements allow you to post messages to students and staff in your course. You can also optionally receive responses to posts, via replies or likes, essentially enabling a simple polling or...
View ArticleHow to: Import content into your Canvas course
The Canvas course import tool allows you to import content into your course from a variety of sources. This includes importing content (in part or in whole) directly from another RMIT Canvas course, or...
View ArticleHow to: use Gradebook in Canvas
Gradebook, accessed via Grades in the course menu, is the Instructors view for all students grades. Instructors can view the whole cohort’s grades, or filter by section. Students view of grades, will...
View ArticleHow to: add weighting to assessment items in Canvas
In Canvas you can use assignment groups to set up percentage weighting for the assessment items in your course, which then tells Canvas how to calculate students’ progress in the course, and...
View ArticleHow to: Get started with Canvas for sessional staff
Recently we travelled to Singapore and Hong Kong to deliver training we’d developed for sessional and support staff teaching RMIT programs. The training comprised a three hour, face-to-face, hands-on...
View ArticleHow to: Grade an assignment using Speedgrader
Speedgrader is the Canvas marking tool which allows you to view, annotate, comment on, and grade student assignment submissions online. In addition to grading online submissions, Speedgrader can also...
View ArticleHow can I tell which student is in which group in Canvas?
So you’ve set up a Canvas group set added your groups, and assigned students (or students have assigned themselves) to groups, everything is going swimmingly. But now you need to know which students...
View ArticleManaging a program Blackboard for the Diploma of Visual Merchandising
Dealing with VE course within a program can be tricky. Often the best solution is to organise learning resources, activities and assignment submissions via a clustering of course within a Program...
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