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  1. Set a Late Submission Policy

    The late Submission policy allows you to automatically deduct points on all late submissions.  A submission is labeled late when it has been submitted past the due date.  Only assignments with a status of Late will be affected by the policy.  ...
  2. Assessments & Feedback

    Formative + Summative Assessments & Feedback:  helps your students build on their work and understand how their work connects with the larger picture of the class 1a) Formative Assessment:  evaluates learning throughout the course (typically lo...
  3. Zoom Best Practices: A Master Guide

    Below are guidelines the Division of Continuing Education (Harvard Extension School and Harvard Summer School) have for you and your Zoom class. Our guidelines are made to your class remains safe and only accessible to you and enrolled students in y...
  4. Build Modules

    Modules organize course content. Organize content by weeks, units, or a different organizational structure. Each module can contain files, discussions, assignments, quizzes, and other learning materials. Unpublished modules are invisible to st...
  5. Community Building in Zoom: Teaching Strategies

    Strategy  Steps Community Agreements  CONTEXT & PURPOSE:  Setting classroom expectations & cultivating a brave space for sharing & learning  TOOLS:   Zoom Chat Box WHAT YOU WILL GAIN:  Classroo...
  6. About ActiveClass

     While ActiveClass has been retired as of January, 2025, we have other discussion tools that might do the trick. ActiveClass is a social learning community-building discussion tool.  With ActiveAssignments create assignments,...
  7. Tips & Best Practices for Setting Up Online Exams

    Tips: Exam Preparation Tricks for Upping Your Exam Integrity in Canvas Exam Policies to Know Tips: Exam Preparation Communicate We recommend the use of Canvas Announcements to communicate with your students about the exam C...
  8. Add Content in Canvas

    Canvas content creation works similarly across all areas of the site where there is a rich content editor.   Tip: to revert to a previous version of a page, visit our guide on Pages revision . Add content to your page Add Files Add Imag...
  9. 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...
  10. How to Give Exams

    How To Give Non-Proctored Exams How To Give Handwritten Exams Online How To Give High-Quality Exams How To Give Non-Proctored Exams A closed-book proctored exam tests what a student has memorized. But “professional or disciplinary j...