Encouraging student collaboration is one of the best ways of helping students learn about each other and from each other. Collaboration in the classroom can take many forms.
Canvas
Learning doesn’t need to occur in a bubble. It’s incredibly important to allow students to get to know their instructor, and for the instructor to get to know their students.
Faculty members have a few tool choices available when needing to communicate with their class.
Learn how to use the New Canvas Gradebook!
Faculty members have a few tool choices available when needing to communicate with their class.
Highlights in this release:
– Embedded Image File Uploads
– Screen Reader and Browser Support Change
Learn how to schedule announcements in Canvas, how to create video announcements using Panopto, and how to add your announcements to your course home page.
Learn how assignment due dates in Canvas help your students stay on track.
Manage your course navigation links in your course settings!
In case you missed them, here is a list highlighting some of the cool changes that have happened in Canvas over the past year.
Clicking Student View in Canvas creates a test student in your grade center. If you wish to remove the test student from a Canvas course, here are the steps.
There are special accessibility considerations when working with complex images, like infographics, images of text, and more.
The math equation editor within the Canvas rich content editor saves in an accessible format.
Checking for accessibility issues within Canvas can be done within Canvas either using the Accessibility Checker in the rich content editor or by using UDOIT.
Correcting color contrast issues within Canvas can be done with built-in tools.
Quick information on bullet and numbered lists in Canvas.
A brief how-to for adding images via the Canvas visual text box content selector.
Canvas has features for accessible tables. You can add header rows and columns in the GUI.
You can edit each closed caption from the closed captioning screen by simply clicking the pencil icon.
This method is easy. After importing captions simply go line by line correcting each line.
A descriptive link allows a person to know what they are clicking on, and have an idea of where it will take them.