If you record your BigBlueButton (aka Canvas Conferences) meetings from your Canvas site, most students will automatically have access to view those recordings. However, only students who were originally invited to the meeting can see the recording, which can cause issues if, for instance, a student adds the class after meetings have been held. In… continue reading
If you are using Webex from your Canvas course, you may see an error on attempting to create a new meeting: Your Webex token has expired. Please use the log out button in the upper right of your Virtual Meetings window to log out of Webex and sign back in. To fix this:
Often you may wish to copy course content to re-use in another Canvas site. For instance, a) if you are teaching the same course again in a subsequent semester; or b) if you have set up section 01 and want to duplicate it to section 02. Sometimes, you may wish to copy just a couple… continue reading
At the time of this writing, the Rutgers Canvas instance does not give you a simple way to view students’ email addresses. However, you can download a spreadsheet from the Registrar’s site that includes an email column: To send email to the entire group, open the spreadsheet, copy the column with email addresses, then paste… continue reading
Some instructors like to set up a Zoom meeting in Canvas that can be used throughout the semester for office hours or other students meetings, at any time. This should be a separate meeting from regularly-scheduled class meetings in Zoom, which are set up as a recurring meeting on specific dates, at specific times. [Note:… continue reading
If you record your Zoom sessions to the cloud, you can still do some (very basic) editing. You can trim the beginning or the end of the video off, which can be helpful. IMPORTANT: if you allow downloading for the video, the downloaded video will be the whole thing, not the trimmed version. From Zoom… continue reading
