Overview Ally Course Accessibility Report and TidyUp provide instructors with important accessibility information for their Canvas courses. The Ally Course Accessibility Report gives instructors insight into how well their courses perform in terms of accessibility. The TidyUp tool lists all documents in a course, indicates whether each is in active use, and shows where each… continue reading
Providing online exams for college students is becoming increasingly complex, especially as AI tools grow more powerful and accessible. These technologies can easily assist in generating answers or completing assessments, challenging the very notion of what an exam measures. As AI capabilities continue to evolve, ensuring that online exams authentically reflect a student’s understanding may… continue reading
Preparing your Canvas site: A start-of-semester checklist
As we head into the last days of the semester, we invite you to consider the following suggestions to ensure your grades are being calculated accurately in your Canvas gradebooks and that all loose ends have been addressed before submitting final grades. Missing assignments Verify weighted gradebook assignment groups Verify course grade scheme Submit final… continue reading
Submit final grades via Canvas using Gradesync First, verify that your course grading scheme is correct. Once you have confirmed that the grading scheme is accurate, now you are ready to submit final grades. Need to update or change your grading scheme? Please see more information here.
Create an annotated student assignment If you have a document (such as a map, diagram, or any other type of worksheet) that you’d like your students to be able to annotate and turn in online, the ‘Student Annotation’ type submission in Canvas may be a great fit! This feature allows students to easily annotate or… continue reading
