I Like to Move It TipsTricksShortcuts Spring Conference

“I Like to Move It!” Tips/Tricks/Shortcuts Spring Conference 2017 Carol Ayres, Professor and Faculty Trainer Laura Howard, Distance Education Coordinator Iowa Lakes Community College

Canvas Community (Canvas guides) Notification settings Quick Overview Student view Building your course from scratch Recover a deleted file students Calendar Message students who. . . Many more time saving tips…

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Notifications 1. Open Account 2. Click on Notifications

Notifications Set Notification Preferences: Notify right away Send daily Send weekly Do not send Preferences will automatically apply to ALL courses. They cannot be set individually. Twitter and SMS notification preferences do not support daily summary or weekly summary options. Unregistered contact methods will appear in notification preferences but will not receive notifications until you confirm the registration.

Notifications Set PUSH Notification Preferences: Notify right away Do not send If you have enabled push notifications in the Canvas by Instructure APP, the Notifications page displays a Push Notification column. Please be aware that push notifications can only be sent to your mobile device right away or not at all—daily and weekly notification options are not supported. Additionally, setting preferences inside the app will override preferences set in the notifications page

Student View Left navigation select Settings Choose Student View Located at the top right

Student View Course as a student user would see it For example, students cannot see the Settings navigation link like instructors can. know if you are in Student View because of the persistentbox on the bottom of the screen indicating you are logged into Student View.

Reset Student View Click Reset Student. clear all history for the student allowing you to start with a clean slate For example, if you created an assignment and submitted it as the Test Student but then forgot to add a certain submission type, you can click the Reset Student button and submit the assignment again as the Test Student.

Leave Student View To return to your course in the instructor view, click the Leave Student View button.

Building your course from scratch 1. Create Pages (anything that doesn’t have a grade attached) 2. Assignments 3. Discussion 4. Quizzes/Exams 5. Modules (add all modules) Add ALL Pages, assignments, etc in 6. Add Pages, Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes to Modules MODULE 1 Then drag to the correct Modules. . .

Recover a Deleted file Recover a deleted File Module Quiz Assignment Pages

Recover a Deleted file 1. Navigate to Course 2. Type “/undelete” 3. Hit Enter

Recover a Deleted file 4. Click on restore 5. Are you sure? 6. Restores to original source place

Calendar Helpful tips about the calendar: Remind students of graded Assignments with specific due dates Automatically syncs with other features in Canvas a. Assignments, Syllabus, and Grades b. If you create, change, or delete the due date of an Assignment on the Calendar, it will show up in all the others and vice versa. c. You can change dates easily by dragging and dropping assignments from one date to another.

Calendar Helpful tips about the calendar: It is a global feature a. See all assignments from all courses - in one place b. Can filter the number of events listed by selecting or deselecting courses in the Sidebar Is designed to display up to 10 calendars at any given time a. Help manage calendars, courses customized in the courses drop-down menu as a favorite course will always be listed at the top of the user’s calendar list in the calendar sidebar

Calendar Feed Link personal canvas calendar with Google, Outlook, ical, etc

Calendar Open Calendar in Global Navigation You can view calendar events by day, week, month, or agenda list. The calendar also includes access to the Scheduler, which is an optional scheduling tool in Canvas.

Send message from Gradebook Message subjects are filtered based on specific assignment categories: Haven't submitted yet —students who haven't submitted the assignment. This category does not include students who have been manually awarded a grade, even if they did not submit the assignment. Once a grade has been awarded for an assignment (either automatically or manually), Canvas no longer verifies actual submissions. Haven't been graded —students whose assignments have not yet been graded (submitted or unsubmitted). Scored less than [point value] —students who earned a grade on their assignment less than X number of points. Scored more than [point value] —students who earned a grade on their assignment more than X number of points. One message most likely will be sent to multiple students at the same time, each student will receive an individual message.

Send message from Gradebook Open Gradebook: 1. Hover the assignment title and click the drop-down menu. 1. Click the Message Students Who. . .

Send message from Gradebook By default, Canvas will show names from the Haven't submitted yet category. 1. In the drop-down menu, select the category of students you want to message. a. Haven’t submitted b. Have been graded c. Scored less than (x points) d. Scored more than (x points) 2. Based on real-time data, Canvas will show the names of the students who fall in the category you selected. You can also remove students from the message by clicking the Remove icon. 3. Canvas will also generate a subject line based on the category, but you can edit the subject line if needed.

Send message from Gradebook 1. Type a message to the students in the message field. 1. Click the Send Message button Note: Although one message most likely will be sent to multiple students at the same time, each student will receive an individual message.

Speedgrader You can use Speed. Grader to: Sort submissions by student and hide student names for anonymous grading View submission details for each student, including resubmitted assignments Use rubrics to assign grades Leave feedback for your students Track your grading progress and hide assignments while grading View submissions in moderated assignments

Speedgrader Access Speed. Grader You can access Speed. Grader in several ways: Access via the Gradebook Access via Assignment, Quiz, or Graded Discussion

Speedgrader Leave comments: Video Audio Text File upload

Speedgrader Sort students TIP - must set up Speedgrader Settings each semester in each class

Drop a Grade! 1. Go to Assignments 1. Create an Assignment Group 1. Add assignments to Assignment Group

Drop a Grade! 1. Select “Gear Icon” 1. Click Edit

Drop a Grade! CREATE RULES: Drop the lowest Drop the highest OR Never Drop

Drop a Grade! Select Assignments Save Rules

Moving Units This is SO easy we’ll show you right now!

Keyboard Shortcuts • Command/CTRL+C: Copy • Command/CTRL+U: Underline • Command/CTRL+X: Cut • Command/CTRL+I: Italic • Command/CTRL+V: View (Paste) • Command/CTRL+P: Print • Command/CTRL+Z: Undo • Shift Enter: goes to next line, not new paragraph • Command/CTRL+B: Bold

Open Multiple Classes/webpages Open your class in your web browser Open several courses in the SAMEbrowser window Hit the CTRL Key and then click on the classes ● Open courses in NEW browser windows ● Hit the SHIFT Key and then click on the classes

Turnitin! 1 tip Go to the Turnitin! Session…. Presented by the Turnitin! Guy - Robert Trent At 9: 30 Tuesday

Canvas Tips Canvas remembers. . . Expand/Unexpand a module

Tables (https: //community. canvaslms. com/docs/DOC-1841 ) Tables: https: //learn. canvas. net/courses/553/pages/html-design-tips-for-tables https: //community. canvaslms. com/docs/DOC-1841 https: //community. canvaslms. com/thread/8766 http: //sites. dartmouth. edu/edtech/2015/04/03/canvas-tip-use-percentages-whenformatting-tables/ https: //ithelp. brown. edu/kb/articles/428 -create-a-table-using-the-canvas-text-editor

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“I Like to Move It!” Tips/Tricks/Shortcuts Spring Conference 2017 Carol Ayres: cayres@iowalakes. edu Laura Howard: lhoward@iowalakes. edu Iowa Lakes Community College