Archive for August, 2017
Feature Spotlight: Peer Review in Canvas
Do you want to allow students to provide feedback to other student’s assignment submissions? You can do this online in Canvas! First, a few common questions about the Peer Review tool: Peer reviews can be assigned to show student names or display anonymously. (Professor and TA can still see who reviewed who, but it is anonymous […]
Pro Tip Tuesday: Download Gradebook to Excel
Canvas provides a pretty great Gradebook interface to work with directly in your web browser, but sometimes there’s nothing like using good old Excel for calculations. Here’s how to export your Gradebook to Excel from Canvas, and some pro tips to accompany this task. Open Grades Click the Export button Click the CSV File link When […]
Pro Tip Tuesday: Validate Course and Web Links
This one is easy- Canvas has a link checker! If you have been copying your course content year to year, it’s worth it to run the Canvas link checker to make sure all of your internal links, uploaded content, as well as web resources are active and published. Canvas will check your content and let […]
Canvas Update: August 26, 2017
Every three weeks, Canvas releases new features, updates to existing features, and bug fixes to our platform. In this production release (Aug 26), SpeedGrader has been optimized for performance in large courses. In DocViewer, Point and Area annotations no longer require comments, and DocViewer displays an annotation session warning before the session is refreshed. For all users, […]
Pro Tip Tuesday: Mute Assignments in Gradebook
This post has been archived. Mute Assignment is now handled by Canvas’ Grade Posting Policy.
Pro Tip Tuesday: Create clickable images using Link to URL
The Rich Content Editor in Canvas has a ton of tools for you to create custom pages that are unique to your course site. Here’s a tip for one of these tools that you might not have known about. The Link to URL tool (the chain link icon in the toolbar). You can create clickable images […]
Canvas Update: August 5th, 2017
Every three weeks, Canvas releases new features, updates to existing features, and bug fixes to our platform. In this production release (Aug 5), the submission details page, student Grades page, and SpeedGrader display labels for missing submissions. Production release notes also include fixed bugs. View Full Production Release Notes here.
Pro Tip Tuesday: Renaming your documents in Modules
Did you know that Canvas allows you to set a display name in your Modules for your uploaded documents? The display name will show in your Module, but will retain the original given filename for your records. With just a few clicks, you can easily change your Modules page from this: To this! Here’s how […]
