• Canvas,  Educational Tools,  Teaching & Learning

    Microsoft Teams and Canvas: Joining and Recording Meetings and Uploading the Recordings to Canvas

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week we talked about how to set up the Microsoft Teams-Canvas integration and create Teams meetings within your Canvas course. Today we’ll be looking at the next step in the process – joining and recording meetings as well as uploading the recordings to your Canvas course.   Joining a meeting  You can quickly and easily join a meeting from Canvas.   In the course navigation, click “Microsoft Teams meetings”  The scheduled meetings for the course will be listed. Canvas will display a “join” button on the meeting tile when the meeting is scheduled to start.  Teams will prompt you to choose how to join the meeting. You can…

  • Canvas,  Educational Tools,  Teaching & Learning

    Microsoft Teams and Canvas: Setting up the Integration and Creating Meetings

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week we talked briefly about the Microsoft-Canvas integrations. Today, we’ll be taking a deeper dive into one part of it — the Microsoft Teams integration.   At first glance, it may seem that the Teams integration isn’t anything special. But on closer look, adding Teams to your course opens a new world of possibilities. You can host and record meetings and easily link the recordings back into your Canvas course. And you can take advantage of all the features within Teams itself — creating channels for groups to conduct small group discussions and work.   The first step for using Teams with your course is turning on the integration. This will create a Team within…

  • Canvas,  Educational Tools

    Introducing the Microsoft-Canvas Integrations

    Reading Time: < 1 minute We’ve briefly talked about Microsoft’s partnership with Canvas, especially with the Microsoft Immersive Reader. But the relationship goes deeper than that – both Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams can be integrated with your Canvas course.   The Teams integration, in particular, is an especially exciting prospect. It allows you to host and record meetings and easily link the recordings back into your Canvas course. With Teams, you can also assign channels for groups to allow for small group discussion and work. There are also opportunities for collaboration and communication.   Plus, the integration of the entire Office suite means you can easily link Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents into your course. You and your students have access…

  • Canvas

    Adding Existing Outcomes to Your Canvas Rubrics

    Reading Time: < 1 minute In the previous post Adding Existing Rubrics to Your Canvas Course, we’ve talked about finding an existing rubric and using the rubric in your assignment.   Today, we’re talking about adding existing outcomes to an assignment rubric.   Step 1: Add existing outcomes to your course  Click the Outcomes link in the course navigation to open the Outcomes page.  Click the “Find” button to open the Find Outcomes window.  In the Find Outcomes window, choose Account Standards -> Cedarville University. Here, you will find the outcome folders provided by Cedarville such as Oral Communication and Written Communication. Click the outcome folder that you want to add to your…