IDT Blog: Teaching & Tech Tips
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 … 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: Post Announcements to a section … Continue reading
Canvas: add Home page
Last updated: In your new, blank Canvas course site, the Home button on the left-hand course menu probably takes you to the Modules tool and shows a “Create a New Module Link.” You have different options for your Home display, … 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): Watch and ask: students view a lecture you’ve prepared, optionally adding comments or questions Share … 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 … Continue reading
Kaltura: add collaborators
last updated If you want to allow another professor to share one of your Kaltura videos from their own Canvas sites, you can give them ‘collaborator’ status on that video. Start from My Kaltura Media (in Canvas, from your account … Continue reading