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  1. 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...
  2. 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 Unpublished modules are invisible to st...
  3. 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.  Th...
  4. 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,...
  5. 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 Can...
  6. 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...
  7. Canvas Essentials

    Communication Use Canvas Announcements to get class-wide information in front of your students in a myriad of ways. Announcements will appear on your course site, and in the student dashboard, notify students via their personal emails an...
  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. Harvard DCE Pilot: Gather Study Lounge

    Gather Study Lounge Best Practices Guide (Harvard DCE Pilot) Hello! Thank you for piloting the Gather Study Lounge. The Gather Study Lounge is a tool built into your course’s Canvas site that gives your students a space to meet outside of class ...
  10. Yellowdig Startup

    No installation required.  Yellowdig is now always available in your course site.  To begin using it, just enable it in your course navigation. Enable Yellowdig Yellowdig Board Setup Enable Yellowdig  in the Course Navigation Sele...