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  1. 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 communi...
  2. Import a Canvas Course Export Package

    If you have a Canvas course export package from someone else that you want to use in Canvas, or you have previously exported a course , you can import the course as a Canvas course export package. An export package is imported as an IMSCC file. ...
  3. Tips for Organizing Your Course Site

    Organizing your Site Empowers You & Your Students.   Consistency is KEY! Setting expectations and keeping to it. Communicating effectively Delete old files Create folders Use Canvas Pages for assigned reading and non-term bound conte...
  4. Tools to Extend Canvas

    Tools:  Discussion - Annotation - Chat - Peer Review - Math, Science, Polling - Course Admin Want to do something in your course but not sure which tool can help? Here are the key features of some commonly used tools that can help enhance t...
  5. Instructor Development Event Resources- Instructional Technology Group (ITG)

    Implement Active Learning Design with Feedback Fruits Turn Students Into Instructors & Curators: Improve Group Work with Interactive Tools Student Success with Improved Feedback Spring 2023 ...
  6. 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. Feed...
  7. 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 ...
  8. Zoom links on your Canvas course site

    Don't post Zoom links anywhere Posting Zoom links on a syllabus is prohibited for security reasons. Zoom is in the Canvas navigation A link to Zoom meetings is provided in the left navigation of your Canvas site. Instructional staff can "Sc...
  9. Canvas Scheduler

    Canvas Scheduler is part of the calendar and creates appointment groups (collection of individual appointments) that students can sign up for. You may use it to:  create office hours  schedule TA sessions  assign presentation times and host o...
  10. Canvas Layouts

    For a new course site layout, choose one of the three below for your course site. Fill out a Canvas course site request and the layout you select will be applied to your course site. Remember: the three layouts just provide a basic founda...