CTLD ReadyRecording 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Many courses depend on the ability to share accurate and accessible equations, however, mathematical equations can be difficult to render in a virtual environment. Fortunately, Canvas has integrated MathJax and LaTeX (pronounced latech) into the text editor to make this process easy. MathJax is the JavaScript library that Canvas uses behind the scenes to actually […]
One of the many customizations you can make to Canvas is to set an assignment group to drop either the lowest score or highest score for each student. You can set rules to assignment groups (Assignments, Quizzes, etc.) in Canvas regarding how many low or high grades to drop or which assignments should never be […]
Every instructor addresses late student submissions differently. You can use Canvas’ Gradebook to set your preferred late policy that applies to every student and every assignment in your course. You can also set Gradebook to assign a zero grade to assignments that are not submitted. Directions [Length 2:08, CC Available] Have questions? Need additional support […]
Classic Quizzes are the original quiz tool in Canvas for creating exams, tests, and quizzes. While Canvas continues to expand and develop the New Quiz tool, Classic Quizzes remain available for instructors to use, and there is currently no institution-wide timeline at MSU Denver for discontinuing them. Many instructors continue using Classic Quizzes because they […]
When grading quizzes and exams, you may prefer to grade all responses to a single question rather than grade student submissions individually. Grading this way can help you focus on the context of the question rather than constantly switching your focus to different questions. Changing to a grade-by-question setting in Canvas Speedgrader is easy to […]