Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs you’re getting your courses off the ground for the semester, you’re probably going through your standard course prep. For some instructors that means making sure your teaching assistants are added to your sections. Thankfully, Canvas makes it easy for you to accomplish this task yourself. Check out Canvas’ information on how to add users to a course. When assigning a role, you’ll want to give your assistants the “TA” role defined in our system. As you’re working through this process, remember that you have Canvas Support available to answer your questions and help you if you get stuck! You can access chat support through the…
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Dos and Don’ts of Quiz Creation
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs educators, we can agree that assessments are essential to the learning process. Quizzes are a popular method for assessing learners’ understanding of material and mastery of knowledge. The real question is – are we quizzing effectively? In this post, we explore some best practices for quiz creation to ensure effective assessment of student mastery in course learning objectives. We will review some Dos and Don’ts for quiz creation. Do Don’t What now? If you have questions about anything you read or suggestions for topics to be covered, leave a comment below. If you need help using these dos and don’ts in your course, contact the CTL…
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Canvas Transition: Do All Your Links Work in Your Course?
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou’ve brought your course over to Canvas from Moodle, and you’ve finished preparing it for the upcoming semester. In previous semesters, you’ve either had to check each link in your course manually to ensure it works or wait until a student finds a broken link. But you don’t have to do that anymore with Canvas. Canvas’ built-in link validation feature will search the content in your course for invalid or unreachable links and images. The link validator has some limitations and can turn up results that Canvas can’t view but students still can. For example, in our online courses, we embed each syllabus into the course using…