Canvas provides a multitude of assessment tools that allow for feedback on both the student and instructor end. One of these tools is the quizzes function which allows you to create multiple choice, true/false, and essay questions, among several others. When creating quizzes for your class, you may find that you want to provide students […]
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Once you have set up your quiz in Canvas, including the allowed time for all students, you can easily change that time requirement for select students without editing the rest of the class. Canvas allows instructors to provide accommodations such as extra time and extra quiz attempts to their students using the Quiz Moderation feature. […]
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Use Item Banks for New Quizzes
New Quiz questions can be stored in Item Banks instead of the Question Banks used in Classic Quizzes. You can use Item Banks to organize quiz questions and share them with fellow instructors. Note: Question Banks used in Classic Quizzes cannot yet be easily migrated to New Quizzes. Refer to our “Convert Question Banks to […]
Microsoft Teams is the institutionally-recommended software for hosting live, virtual meetings. You can use MS Teams for virtual class meetings, one-off lectures, meetings with your colleagues, and much more. MS Teams has both an application for your computer and a version that runs in your web browser. Because the application is more stable and less […]
The Roll Call feature in Canvas includes a tool you can use to create seating charts and share them with others. You can use this feature to help create and refer to seating charts for in-person classes. Directions Enable Attendance Tools If you can see Attendance in the left-hand navigation menu of your Canvas course, […]
In your online course, you may have modules set up for students to progress through sequentially. If you don’t want students to work ahead of your scheduled content, you can lock modules until certain dates, for instance at the start of each week. You could also simply leave all future modules unpublished and publish them […]
When you’re grading, it can be helpful to send a quick message to a specific group of students. For example, you may want to send a reminder to all students who have not yet submitted an assignment, or maybe you want to send a message to students who received a certain grade or lower to […]
Wondering why, when you delete a page from a module, it doesn’t delete from your Canvas course? When you create a page in a Canvas Module, the page is not stored in your Module but rather in a folder called Pages that you can access from the course navigation menu on the left. What you […]
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Use SpeedGrader Comment Library
If you have comments that you find yourself using repeatedly while grading, you can save those comments in SpeedGrader’s Comment Library instead of retyping the same comment over and over. The SpeedGrader Comment Library enables you to add frequently used comments to an assignment easily. The comment library does have some limitations. When you add […]
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Share an Item Bank in New Quizzes
Item Banks are collections of questions for use in New Quizzes. You may want to share an Item Bank with another instructor to use in their course, perhaps to collaborate on creating new questions or to provide them with material for their own New Quizzes. This tutorial will show you how to share access to […]