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When you record a meeting in Teams, that recording is automatically available to all of the members of the Class Team the meeting was scheduled in, or any required attendees. Teams does automatically generate a transcript and captions for recordings that you can edit, however, it may helpful to upload the recording to YuJa so […]
Recording your meetings in Teams can create a helpful resource for you and your students. Your students can refer back to a lecture when studying for a test, for instance, or an absent student can watch the recording of a class that they weren’t able to attend. Fortunately, recording a meeting in Teams is a […]
Extra credit opportunities can be an excellent strategy for encouraging students to go above and beyond and explore certain areas of a course in more detail. Extra credit can also provide struggling students with chances to correct any misunderstandings related to their course content and potentially increase their overall grades. Canvas allows instructors to customize […]
There are numerous third-party applications connected to Canvas that can be used to enhance your course. The table below details the various apps that are supported and site-licensed by MSUD that you can use. Also included are links to CLTD tutorials that will walk you through the steps to connect them. Integrated Apps/Tools Publishers that […]
Items with due dates such as assignments, quizzes, and discussions automatically get added to the Course Summary and student To-Do List once a due date is set, but what about other elements of a course like readings and videos? Marking these items as “to-dos” in the module will add them to the Course Summary and […]
Modules are the “building blocks” of a Canvas course. Modules help organize a course and ensure that students will access all materials in the desired order. A wide variety of different items can be added to a Module, including pages, discussions, assignments, quizzes, files, headers, and links. Adding different types of items to Modules makes […]
Sometimes, when you record a video, you want to make adjustments. Maybe you want to cut out a few seconds of silence or add a text overlay to a section of the video. YuJa has basic editing capabilities that enable you to make some changes to your video. The capabilities are limited, but they may […]
There are many advantages to using a weighted grading scheme. For example, you don’t need to manipulate points to make your total points work out to a nice even number (like 1000), and you don’t need to shuffle points around when you add, remove, or change an assignment. Also, you can easily ensure that major […]
When a student joins your Team meeting by calling in on their phone, Teams will announce when they enter and leave the meeting. You may find these announcements distracting and prefer to disable them. You can easily change this setting through the Meeting Details for any scheduled meeting or from inside the Teams meeting. For […]