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  1. 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 the...
  2. Immersive Classroom Activity Types

    Immersive Classroom Activity Types Do you do activities or discussions in your live class? Are your async students left watching your live class with no way to participate? Or have you been building alternative versions for async students...
  3. Gather Attendance

    Taking Attendance in Your Course Gather, the tool that we use at DCE to create and launch Zoom meetings, has attendance tracking features for your web conference or in-person class meetings.  Attendance tracking is automatically tu...
  4. Using Polls for Student Engagement

    Types of polls that can be used for synchronous and asynchronous students. Suggestions for question types to gather different types of student feedback, such as feedback and assessment,
  5. News in Tools

    ActiveClass Feedback Fruits Gradescope Kialo Poll Everywhere Yellowdig Engage ActiveClass School Year 2023-2024 01/2024 Assigning boards based on groups or sections  Assign discussion boards to different group an...
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  7. Teaching Staff Proctorio Checklist

    After ITG Installation Before Your Exam After Your Exam After ITG Installation Any teaching staff editing quizzes or exams using Proctorio or viewing the Proctorio results need to use a supported browser with the Proctorio exte...
  8. Access Concluded Canvas Course Sites

      Course sites are archived after the end of a term. Archived sites no longer appear on your dashboard, but remain accessible to you. Note: once a course site is archived, instructors can no longer message students via Canvas.  Access ...
  9. About Hello Harvard

    Hello Harvard is a tool DCE built to provide self-service options for teaching staff to use when setting up their Canvas sites. Phase 1 of Hello Harvard, which is now available, provides an app store of DCE vetted and approved tools. Sel...
  10. Adding Quiz Time For Accessibility Accommodations

    For students with officially approved extension of time accommodations, you can append the available time in a Canvas Quiz. The quiz must be published in order to access the extension of time feature. Note : The Extension School policy req...