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  1. Creating a Sandbox Site with a Basic Instructure Canvas Account

    We cannot create course sites before the Extension and Summer Schools have set up the course catalog and registrar system.  You can create a sandbox site yourself by setting up an outside Instructure Canvas account and build out things ther...
  2. Getting Ready for Your First Class

    Top 5 Things To Do In Your First Class Online Getting Your Students to Read Your Syllabus Top 5 Things To Do In Your First Class Online Teaching online for the very first time? Here are some tips for your very first session to start th...
  3. Customizing the Default Exam

    Once the exam shell has been added to your course site, follow the steps below to upload your exam. Note :  Please DO NOT change any of the Proctorio settings.   If you would like to change the settings, please contact us to set up an appointm...
  4. Change An Individual Assignment's Grade Posting Policy

    To release grades and comment immediately after , you need to select a "automatic" grade posting policy per individual assignment (only needed if course posting policy is set to manual). To hide grades while grading , you need to select a "manua...
  5. Set a Missing Submission Policy

    This is a course-wide policy and exceptions can only be made manually student by student.  A submission is labeled missing when the due date has passed and it has not been submitted. Only submissions with a status of Missing will be affected by t...
  6. A Guide to the Harvard AI Sandbox

    A Guide to the Harvard AI Sandbox What is the Harvard AI Sandbox? The Harvard AI Sandbox provides a secure environment for you to experiment with generative AI. Please note, you should use the sandbox instead of other accounts . The sa...
  7. Feedback Fruits - demo

    Feedback Fruits is a suite of peer review, self-assessment, and annotation tools that are easy to use in your Canvas course site.   Watch this 15-minute highlight reel to see how Feedback Fruits operates, in both student and instructor views. Fill...
  8. 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 ...
  9. 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....
  10. Teaching Your Asynchronous Students

    Teaching Your Asynchronous Students At Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, we have courses in which all online students are synchronous and a few courses with all asynchronous students. We also have courses that have both asynchrono...