Enhance Education with Canvas Observer Pairing
The Observer role is a versatile tool, which instructors and students can leverage to empower their progress in Canvas. The Observer role can be assigned to parents, guardians, mentors, counselors, evaluators, and fellow instructors.
How can you achieve this?
Impact now offers an Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) campaign suite to show the benefits of adding Observers to courses and student’s accounts, along with step-by-step guides.
A total of two Instructor, two Student, and three Observer campaigns can be launched strategically throughout the academic cycle. The first campaign describes the benefits of using the observer role, while the second campaign shows how to implement them into Canvas. The third observer campaign
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
Note: To access Observer Insights please ensure that the Observer Report Tool Category is switched on inside your Impact Dashboard.
Suggested Steps based on Instructor, Student, and Observer Campaigns
Phase 1: Awareness
The Benefits of Implementing Observers - Instructor
Campaign title: Benefits of linking observers and students
Instructors start with an introductory campaign highlighting the benefits of using observers in their course and with student accounts.
Advantages to having Observers - Students
Campaign title: Benefits of linking with an observer
This campaign describes the benefits of pairing with observers to help enhance student learning.
Benefits of being an Observer - Observer
Campaign title: Benefits of becoming an observer
This campaign will help observers understand the benefits of their role in Canvas.
Phase 2: Implementation
Adding Observers - Instructors
Campaign title: Walkthrough: Pairing students and observers
This walkthrough will guide Instructors through the steps of adding observers to the course, linking with students, and creating pairing codes.
Pairing with Observers - Students
Campaign title: Walkthrough: Generate pairing code for an observer as a student
Students can follow this step-by-step guide to create pairing codes for their observers.
Pairing with students - Observer
Campaign title: Walkthrough: How do I link a student to my user account as an observer?
Following this walkthrough, observers will go through the steps needed to pair their account with a student.
Phase 3: Ability
Leveraging Role Permissions - Observer
Campaign title: Observer role: Secondary & HE
Once the observer has paired with a student, this campaign discusses their abilities and permissions in a Canvas course.
Instructor campaigns
Student campaigns
Observer campaigns
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!
