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  1. Setting Up Exams in Canvas

    Canvas "Quizzes" Use the Canvas “Quizzes” feature to create and administer exams. Canvas "Quizzes" offers many question types and other features, including file uploads.  Check the Online Exam Resources and Guides page for details. Find stud...
  2. Modify the Course Navigation Menu

    The course navigation menu is a series of links on the left side of your course that help you and your students access different course areas or integrated external tools.  Depending on the structure of your course, you can choose to reorder and hi...
  3. Online Exams - Overview

    Use Canvas Quizzes for all assessments Learning assessments, both graded and ungraded, in the form of high stakes exams, low stake quizzes, practice tests and course level surveys can be administered right in your Canvas course site using the Can...
  4. Compare Discussion Tools

    Discussion Tools Comparison Chart For a great description of each discussion tool, visit the demo course site and click on the enroll button. Click on comparison chart to enlarge.  Download the Accessib...
  5. Canvas Files Preperation

    Preparing for working on your Canvas site (recommended).  This process greatly simplifies your file management on Canvas, especially if you have many documents. To upload individual files to Canvas, skip to step 4. On your Computer Step 1....
  6. Calculate Final Grades

    Organize assignments and set assignment weights for final grade calculations. This option assigns a weight to each assignment group, not the assignments themselves.  Important - you must enter in "0 points" for any missing student submission i...
  7. Course Emailer

    The Course Emailer can be used to send email to an entire class or a class section using your default email client (like Outlook) instead of the built-in messaging system in Canvas.  The Course Emailer also displays the individual email addresses ...
  8. Feedback Fruits at DCE

    We've curated tools from the Feedback Fruits suite to help create engaging and meaningful learning experiences with less work for you, from the setup to the grading.  Once an activity is setup, you can be high or low touch as you want. Feedback F...
  9. Feedback Fruits: Configuration

    Easily integrate Feedback Fruits into your a Canvas assignment.  Once integrated you can also take advantage of Feedback Fruit's grade pass back to the Canvas grade book. Step 1. Create a Canvas Assignment.  Step 2. Name the assignment...
  10. Feedback Fruits Guides

    Peer Review Group Member Evaluations Comprehension Interactive Video Editing a Feedback Fruits Assignment Configurable Grading - Add On Preview Assignment as Student Download Student Analytics Create Templates fro...