CTLD ReadyWhen you set up an exam through ProctorU, you will receive an email with the subject line, “Please confirm your session.” The email will ask you to click the Review Exam Information link to review the details of your exam. However, clicking on the link will bring you to a page in ProctorU with a […]
ProctorU is an online proctoring service that records students and their screens as they take an online exam. After a student takes an exam, ProctorU reviews the recording for any potential academic integrity breaches or technical problems that may have occurred during the exam. This process can take 24-72 hours. If a behavior or event […]
The course navigation menu is a great tool for instructors and students to access different areas of your course or external tools easily. As an instructor, you can now add custom links to the course navigation menu through the Navigation tab in your course settings. These links can provide quick and easy access to important […]
ProctorU can only proctor Canvas quizzes, so to proctor an exam that lives in a publisher platform (like Cengage MindTap, McGraw Hill Connect, or Pearson MyLab), you place it inside a Canvas quiz. This is called a wrapper quiz. Students start the wrapper quiz through ProctorU, then open the publisher exam from inside the proctored […]
Canvas Portfolio is a designated space for students to submit evidence towards their learning and reflect on their work. Canvas offers both Evaluation Portfolios, created by the instructor, and Showcase Portfolios, created by the student. Once published, students can enable sharing for both portfolio types, which will create a Share Link that students can share […]
Canvas Portfolio is a designated space for students to submit evidence towards their learning and reflect on their work. Canvas offers both Evaluation Portfolios and Showcase Portfolios. Evaluation Portfolios are created by the instructor, while Showcase Portfolios are created by the student. The process for students to submit evidence to either Portfolio type is the […]
As an instructor, you’re probably juggling more file types than you realize: a syllabus in Microsoft Word, lecture slides in PowerPoint, or a scanned reading saved as a PDF. Each one plays a different role in your course, and each one comes with its own accessibility issues to consider. We’ve already covered the fundamentals of […]
Your Canvas Course most likely already includes multiple videos to help increase student engagement and understanding of the course concept, and if not, view our spotlight, Incorporate YuJa into your Course, to help you get started. It’s easy to assume a video is doing its job by simply embedding it into a Canvas page. However, […]
Including videos in your course is a great way to increase student engagement and instructor presence. The Comment feature in YuJa videos can help expand on this by adding an interactive component to your regular course videos, allowing students to pose questions, comment on specific timestamps, and reply to each other directly in the video […]
Using YuJa videos in your Canvas Course is a great way to increase student engagement. With YuJa’s Branching Video feature, you can now create video pathways by connecting multiple videos together. These branches allow students to make decisions, observe the consequences, and choose what to do next. Including Branching Videos in your course adds interactivity […]