Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’ve looked at some Teams meeting features before when we talked about screen sharing, breakout rooms, and background options. Today we’ll look at three more features inside a Teams meeting — live captions, polls, and attendance reports. Live Captions Microsoft Teams can detect what you say during a Teams meeting and present it as real-time captions at the bottom of the screen. The captions are the most accurate when one person at a time speaks slowly and clearly and is in a place with little background noise. To turn on captions, click the three dots menu in the meeting settings bar and select “Turn on live captions.” Teams will now display captions at the bottom of the window. If you…
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Teams Meetings Features: Sharing Screen, Breakout Rooms, and Background Options
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’ve talked previously about how to create Teams Meetings from Canvas and how to join those meetings. Today we’ll look at some of the features available inside of a meeting, such as sharing your screen or dividing participants into breakout rooms. Sharing Screen Teams makes it easy to show files, apps, content from a secondary camera (like a document camera), or even your entire desktop in a meeting. In the top right corner of your meeting window, you’ll see an icon of an arrow inside a rectangle. Click that to open the share options. Here, you can choose how the content should look (e.g., whether you want to appear along with the shared…
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Microsoft Teams and Canvas: Using a Microsoft Team with a Course
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe’ve spent the past couple weeks talking about the Microsoft Teams-Canvas integration — setting up the integration and creating meetings as well as the basics for joining and recording Teams Meetings through Canvas. Today we’re going to pivot and look at Microsoft Teams itself and how you can leverage it to use in your course. Teams allows you to have a secondary space for communication or collaboration in your course. You can create channels and assign members to them, so you could have a channel for your entire class and separate channels with only specific students assigned to them. Student groups could then use those smaller channels for group collaboration work, chatting back and forth…
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Microsoft Teams and Canvas: Joining and Recording Meetings and Uploading the Recordings to Canvas
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast 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. Students will receive an email with the meeting details and invite link. They will need to use that link from the email to access the meeting. Recording a meeting Uploading a recording to your course Recordings are automatically stored in your OneDrive in a “Recordings” folder that’s…
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Microsoft Teams and Canvas: Setting up the Integration and Creating Meetings
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast 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 Microsoft…
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Introducing the Microsoft-Canvas Integrations
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’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 to…
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Adding Existing Outcomes to Your Canvas Rubrics
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn 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 Step 2: Add existing outcomes as criteria to an assignment rubric The rubric is now ready for use. Once you add the outcomes to rubrics, you cannot delete the outcomes from your course. If you need to change the outcomes, you must remove them from rubrics first. For more information, check the Canvas resources below: Want to never miss a post? Subscribe here!
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New Quiz Update: Access Build Page Directly from Modules
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCanvas is updating their New Quizzes to make it simpler to add or edit questions from the Modules page. Previously, you’d need to open the quiz, scroll past the quiz settings, then click “Build” to access the page for adding or editing questions. But Canvas will allow you to bypass that settings page when you access a New Quiz from a module. Now, when you click the three dots to expand the menu, you’ll see an option for “Build” just below “Edit.” Click “Build” to jump straight to the Build page! Two quick notes: Questions about this change? Reach out to Canvas support at x7905, option 1 or…
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Adding Existing Rubrics to Your Canvas Course
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn previous posts, we’ve briefly talked about creating rubrics to use in your course. Canvas has great resources for how to accomplish that in their “How do I add a rubric to a graded discussion?” and “How do I add a rubric to an assignment?” walkthroughs. Today, however, we’re tackling a subset of that topic – adding existing rubrics to an assignment or discussion. The rubric is now ready for use in your assessment! If you have further questions about this process, please contact Canvas Support by calling x7905 option 1 or by live chatting through the Help menu in Canvas. Want to never miss a post? Subscribe here!
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Adjusting to the Unknown – Reminders You’re Not Alone
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the adjustments and on-the-fly tweaks that have needed to be made over the past week, there’s no doubt that things are a bit hectic at the moment. And in times of great change, stress, and uncertainty, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Because of that, we’re not going to do any kind of deep dive into Canvas features or look ahead to shiny new tools on the horizon. We’re going to stand alongside you and remind you of the resources and groups here to help and support. Flexible Learning at CU Course The Flexible Learning at CU course covers a lot of the basics for tweaking your course to fit…