IDT Blog: Teaching & Tech Tips

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.

Kaltura: add collaborators

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. Now those people can access your videos from their own “My Kaltura Media” page (until you revoke their collaborator status). My Kaltura Media edit window     … continue reading

Canvas: hide final course grade

If using Grades in Canvas, your students will be able to see their course total grade by default.  If you would like to hide the total grade from students, follow the instructions below.