Enhance collaboration with Canvas
Your student body consists of diverse backgrounds, varying levels of knowledge, and unique insights. Bringing these elements together with collaborative assessments allow instructors to create a unique learning environment that can enhance students' outcomes.
Get started on utilizing the tools and features that Canvas offers to improve collaborative learning in courses, by leveraging the suite of Impact campaigns and walkthroughs.
A total of four Instructor campaigns can be strategically launched throughout the academic term(s) to support your Instructors through the process of successfully implementing effective collaborative assessments.
There are also four student campaigns that can be launched in tandem with the instructor ones. These will help the students utilize the collaboration features as the instructors integrate them into their assessments.
Measure the Impact
Our OOTB campaigns offer a set of monitor categories to help you track adoption progress. You can use the generated insights to make data-driven decisions.
Figure 1. Campaign tool adoption
Based on the tool adoption outcomes from the initial campaign, you can target specific user groups according to their need for further support. For example, you can launch a more targeted campaign to increase adoption of online assessment tools only among the users who need further guidance, without causing repetition and cognitive overload to those instructors who are already onboard.
As you can see in the figure below, you can create new campaigns by targeting users based on their activity.
Figure 2. Create campaign from tool adoption data
ADKAR
Our content team works with the ADKAR change management model to ensure that the campaigns and walkthroughs scaffold the successful implementation of Canvas tools.
Phase 1: Awareness/ Desire
Importance of online collaboration - Instructor
Campaign title: Benefits of enhancing collaboration in a course
This is an introductory campaign highlighting the advantages of utilizing Canvas collaboration tools and features. It provides an overview of the key benefits of using discussions, groups, and peer reviews in Canvas. Introducing collaborations at the start of the term will let Instructors prepare the collaborative assignments and discussions into their coursework.
Importance of online collaboration - Student
Campaign title: Leverage collaboration in your course
The student suite starts with an introduction campaign that highlights the benefits of collaborative learning. Each message on the discussion, assignment, and people page includes an article of tips to enhance their use of collaborative assessments.
Phase 2: Knowledge/Ability
Discussions
a. Create a discussion - Instructors
Campaign title: Walkthrough: How to create a Canvas Discussion
This walkthrough will offer Instructors hands-on experience to actively create discussions in the classroom. It contains all the necessary steps to set up the different settings and options for their discussions.
b. Replying to discussions - Students
Campaign title: Walkthrough: Reply to Discussions
This walkthrough guides students through the process of replying to discussion topics in order to enhance communication amongst peers.
Note: You can implement this campaign once Instructors are confident with all major features of creating online assignments to prevent confusion and cognitive overload.
Groups
a. Create a group - Instructors
Campaign title: Walkthrough: How to create student groups
Creating groups is a two-part process. This walkthrough begins with the steps of setting up a group set and includes manually or automatically creating groups, or allowing students to select their own groupings.
b. Interact in a group - Students
Campaign title: Walkthrough: How do I join a group as a student?
This walkthrough gives students the hands-on experience of joining a group in their Canvas course.
Note: You can implement this campaign once Instructors are confident with all major features of creating online assignments to prevent confusion and cognitive overload.
Peer Reviews
a. Create peer reviews - Instructors
Campaign title: Walkthrough: How to create peer review assignments
Adding the peer reviews to the assignment at the start will ensure that they are ready to go once students start turning in their submissions for review. This walkthrough will take Instructors through the process of adding peer reviews to an assignment.
b. Evaluating peers - Students
Campaign title: Walkthrough: How to submit a peer review
This walkthrough guides students through the process of submitting a peer review and offers best practices tips for feedback submissions.
Why not check out our assessment suite of campaigns too.
More exciting campaigns will follow in the next releases to help expand adoption of Canvas tools to enhance educational experiences within your institute. Meanwhile, you are always encouraged to submit content requests via our dedicated content form!
