BigBlueButton: share video during meeting
If you are using the Canvas Conferences tool (aka BigBlueButton or BBB), you may wish to show a short video during your meeting with students.
Zoom: configure meetings in Zoom portal
If you are using Zoom for teaching from your Canvas site, you can schedule all class meetings from Canvas and create Polls and Breakout Rooms on the fly, during a meeting. However, if you’d like to set up Polls ahead of time, you’ll need to make some changes from the Rutgers Zoom Portal. To preassign… continue reading
Canvas: using sections to manage large classes
About sections This page explains how to set up Sections in your Canvas course site. Sections will allow you to assign a TA to their students for grading and communications and will allow instructors to: Sections in Rutgers Canvas sites may be implemented according to two different models, based on the Registrar’s roster structure for… continue reading
Canvas: add Home page
In a new, blank Canvas course site, the course home page will default to ‘Modules’, which is likely empty. You will see a prompt to ‘Create a new Module link.’ You have different options for your Home display, but most Rutgers–Camden professors use a welcome page, created in Canvas. To set a page as your… continue reading
VoiceThread in Canvas
Getting started with VoiceThread in Canvas First, decide what type of VoiceThread activities you’ll be adding to your course (see What is VoiceThread? for ideas): You will first create a link in either Assignments or Modules, then you must make a choice in VoiceThread Setup. Create link to VoiceThread In your Canvas site, you can… continue reading
Canvas: invite guests to BBB conference
When you are running a Canvas Conference (the interactive web conference using BigBlueButton), you can invite guests who are not in the class. Unfortunately, you can’t send them the “join link” until you have actually started the conference, so have an email message ready to send—and warn them to be on the lookout.