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  1. Getting Ready for Your First Class

    Top 5 Things To Do In Your First Class Online Getting Your Students to Read Your Syllabus Top 5 Things To Do In Your First Class Online Teaching online for the very first time? Here are some tips for your very first session to start th...
  2. How To Collect Handwritten Student Work

    Top 4 Tips for Assigning Handwritten Work (or Alternatives) Does the student work in your course include symbols, notation, graphs, or calculations that are difficult to type? Here are some tips for managing handwritten student work in an online ...
  3. Top 6 Ways To See How Your Students are Doing

    How are your students feeling about class? Does silence mean they’re confused, or that they’re ready to move on? Here are a few ways to check in with your students when teaching online. Zoom polls during web conference . You can  prepare a poll i...
  4. Creating & Implementing Student Feedback Surveys in Your Course

    The best way to understand how students are doing in a course is to ask them directly - but in order to do so effectively, it is crucial to build trust with your students, provide them with multiple opportunities and channels to provide feedback, a...
  5. Gather for Zoom on Your Canvas Site

    Using Gather LTI for Zoom Gather is a tool developed at DCE to manage our web conference courses.  It makes the integration of Canvas and Zoom seamless for users. What Gather Does Provides a secure pathway to bring you to your Zoom classroom ...
  6. 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 foundation t...
  7. Content Updates

    Between November 3rd and 27th, 2023, we will be moving documents.  If you have reached this page, the document you are looking for is being moved and may be temporarily unavailable.  To find another resource, visit our site index . ...
  8. 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 Availa...
  9. Design Gallery Spotlight: Thematic Course Illustration Assets

    Course Design Spotlights highlight innovative projects that members of the Teaching and Learning team work on with DCE faculty through the Teach Partnership program. Emmy Waldman's ENGL E-184 The Graphic Novel partnership resulted in many custom ill...
  10. Export a Canvas Course

    You can export a Canvas course to: give to someone in another Canvas account  upload to another institution's account at a later date  create a copy as a backup on your local computer You can import an export file into Canvas at any t...