This course is a starting guide for anyone who might be new to Canvas, WWU, and the Bellingham community. Hosted by your friendly (Bellingham) neighborhood Canvas Admin, Chris Powell (ATUS), along with AJ Barse (ATUS instructional designer) and Deran Browne (ATUS...
Occasionally, things do not go as planned when quizzes and exams are administered via Canvas. Whether it is an internet outage or personal conflict, getting the assessment back on track may be possible. Communication when the LMS is down: When unable to contact...
Canvas is WWU's learning management system and primary academic resource for managing course content, assessments, grades, and communications. Key resources for Canvas include the following: WWU: Canvas Help - WWU hub for Canvas support, including these request forms:...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of the Redirect Tool, which can be used to add a unique item to the course navigation of your Canvas course that redirects students to a link that might be used often in your class (e.g., a...
by Rebecca Borowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, WWU Getting bored with Discussion boards? Consider having students post to a wiki! A wiki is a website that can be edited by multiple users. Rather than discussion boards, where students reply...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of the Quizzes feature in Canvas, including how to create a quiz, the types of quizzes you can create and questions you can ask, setting a time limit and an attempt limit, and other aspects...
Members of the Western community may select “Join this Course” to join this self-enroll Canvas course to view recordings, slides, and resources from recent professional development offerings related to teaching, learning, and technology strategies. This is the...
Members of the Western community may select “Join this Course” to join this self-enroll Canvas course for a collection of videos and help docs organized in an each-to-learn collection: WWU Canvas Orientation for Faculty In addition, WWU's students can enroll in this...
View the following videos to learn how to set up online office hours via Canvas, Zoom, and Calendly. First, learn how to create and share online office hours for your classes using the Calendar feature in Canvas. See also: How to Setup Online Office Hours (ATUS...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of how to use the Question Bank feature in Canvas quizzes, which creates a randomized set of questions for a quiz, so the quiz uses a different combination of questions each time it is...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of how to use the Question Group feature in Canvas quizzes, which determines which questions everybody gets, and which questions are taken at random from a pool of potential questions, so...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of new, more flexible alternatives to the “mute grades” feature,(which is no longer present in Canvas) allowing for temporarily hiding grades from students while grading. See also: How do I...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of the process of creating the questions in your quiz, including setting up different types of questions, adding comments to potential answers, and assigning point values to questions. See...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of the Modules feature in Canvas: How to add to and organize a module, edit module content, and add prerequisites and requirements to modules. See also: How do I add a module? How do I...
Your academic Zoom Cloud recordings can now be automatically migrated to your account in Panopto. Once recordings are stored in Panopto, they can be shared, edited, and much more. In addition, you can easily connect to your Panopto recordings in Canvas. For instance,...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of how can copy course content such as assignments, modules, pages, and discussions from previous Canvas courses into existing courses. You only have access to copy content from courses in...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of how to use SimCheck, an online plagiarism detection and educational option that is integrated with Canvas assignments. For assistance with Canvas, see: Canvas Help at WWU. See also: How...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of how to use the "annotated submission" option on Canvas assignments. For assistance with Canvas, see: Canvas Help at WWU.
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview and key features of the Canvas Gradebook. For assistance with Canvas, see: Canvas Help at WWU.
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of how Canvas quizzes (and surveys) can be utilized as the only automatically-graded assessments in Canvas. For assistance with Canvas, see: Canvas Help at WWU.
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of using rubrics with assignments in Canvas for grading and feedback. For assistance with Canvas, see: Canvas Help at WWU.
Explore the large collection of videos created by instructional designer, Kevin Dixey, and other ATUS staff. These videos may differ from what is shown in Instructure's documentation for Canvas and better represent the WWU Canvas environment. See also: WWU: For...
Monday Morning Mentor delivers a 20-minute online program each week, addressing some of today’s most important academic issues and teaching strategies. For weekly 20-minute videos and resources, members of the Western community may select “Join this Course” to join...
Have you ever wished you had the basic framework all set up for a Canvas course so you could just fill in your course content? Created by WesternOnline designers in Outreach and Community Education, these templates were created in an effort to provide an organized and...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of how to set up a Canvas quiz with extra time and attempts for those who require accommodations using the Quiz Moderation feature and "assign to" function in Canvas. For assistance...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of how to add collaborations to Canvas through the Office 365 Canvas app. For assistance with Canvas, see: Canvas Help at WWU. See also: Getting Started with Teams - ATUS Using Microsoft...
This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of adding the Canvas (simple) chat menu item and using it in your class. For assistance with Canvas, see: Canvas Help at WWU.