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  1. Yellowdig Resources

    Basic How To Guides Advance Features & FAQs Share with your student the Yellowdig How to and Support Guides in the Student Pocket Guide.  Basic How To Guides Posting and Commenting Pinning a Post to Top Search...
  2. Kialo Startup & Resources

    Kialo Setup Kialo Grading Share with your student the Kialo's How to and Support Guides in the Student Pocket Guide.  Kialo Setup  Instructor Guide to Setting Up a Graded Kialo Discussion Instructor Guide to Settin...
  3. What's New in Zoom?

    Updated October 2025 Stay informed! Zoom continuously adds and changes features and Harvard's Division of Continuing Education (DCE) often updates policies and procedures.  Even if you taught last semester, there's a possibility that things...
  4. Grading a Kialo Discussion

    Follow the steps below in order to grade your Kialo Discussion and then send those grades and feedback to the CANVAS gradebook. STEP 1 Click the Grading Overview button at the top toolbar in your Kialo discussion. ...
  5. Instructor Guide to Setting Up a Graded Kialo Discussion

    Follow these steps to add a graded Kialo discussion to your CANVAS classroom. STEP 1 Go to the Assignments page in your CANVAS classroom and use the “+ Assignment” button to create a new assignment. If this is an ungraded Kialo D...
  6. Linking 3rd Party Tools back to Canvas Files

    When referring to files within CANVAS from 3rd-party tools installed within your CANVAS classroom, follow the steps below to format the URL appropriately.
  7. Exam Language Tips

    To help you get started with creating clear directions for your students about the nuances of Canvas Quizzes, we've provided you with some base text that you can customize for your needs. General Canvas Directions Available from and Avai...
  8. About Yellowdig

    Yellowdig is a social learning community-building platform that integrates in your Canvas course site. To enable Yellowdig for your course, visit our Yellowdig Startup guide   for directions. Info & Tour of Yellowdig Feature...
  9.  How to Set Up a File Upload for Assignments

      Create new assignment Go to the assignments page. Click on the “+ assignment” button . Write a title and description for the assignment . Set assignment details  Enter points value as zero when not using Canvas to grade. For more...
  10. 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. Fi...