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Thanks so much for this! I've tried a pop-up in Canvas and it doesn't render well in the mobile app. Hopefully this will be a better solution. I can't wait to try this out! ... View more

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing! ... View more

Tammy, we do the same thing. We only recommend the Syllabus tool for courses that use Canvas in the f2f environment and route everything through modules, disabling Assignments and Discussions. ... View more

Great point, Brian! I wonder, though, if it wouldn't be a bit confusing for students to see it as a TO DO item, but with no way to submit? ... View more

Hi Lynn, I'm glad they helped - seriously feel free to use or change anything you need! The general rule of thumb we've been going by in the CA Community College system regarding student work (and I would say also multimedia instructor feedback) is that if student-created media is to be archived and/or used in multiple semesters (on a website or LMS for example), it should be captioned. Student-created media for one-time use should also be captioned if another student in the class needs an accommodation. Aside from that it wouldn't need to be captioned if used in a password-protected LMS environment. ... View more

This can be a great use of Assignments if something is required from the readings and you are using the Syllabus tool in face-to-face classes. We found that students often bypass the module content (with instructions and other information) if the Syllabus tool is operational in online/hybrid classes, often just skipping and clicking on the assignment. (And, if it is not open, getting a locked message which means a lot of emails to faculty about not being able to access the assignment.) We often rely on overview pages for reading assignments, setting a module requirement to view the page in order to complete the module. A recurring event can always be set up in the Calendar as a reminder for readings. Because the Calendar is a global platform, students will see reminders for all of their courses in Canvas. The drawback of the recurring calendar event is that it can't be customized for each individual reading easily. Another option can be to create an empty assignment where students don't have to submit anything, there are no points attached to the assignment but the reading information is listed. This can cause a bit of an assignment bloat in the gradebook, but if the reading assignments are attached to an Assignment Group worth 0% of the total grade, it can work. ... View more

Hi Lynn, For us accessibility is really in the hands of faculty, since we do not have a dedicated Accessibility Specialist on campus. We require all of our faculty who are teaching online to take an accessibility course through the @One Project. We also offer in-house accessibility training and materials. I have an accessibility workshop for faculty (it's a 2-hour awareness-raising workshop) in a Canvas course as well as other training materials. You are welcome to download and/or use them however you wish -- they are licensed under Creative Commons non-commercial share alike with attribution (Attribution: Katie Datko for Pasadena City College). Here are a few things that might help you and which might also help your faculty: Accessibility Overview from our DE Faculty handbook Accessibility Workshop Canvas course join link Accessibility Workshop Canvas course IMSCC file Tech Tip Tuesdays Videos, Infographics & Text Equivalents (several about Accessibility) Good luck & feel free to reach out if you need anything! Katie ... View more

We had the same issue too. What I did was to create an entire course template that could be copied over. This has helped our faculty a lot. You can access it here and are welcome to use/copy/modify it: http://online.pasadena.edu/faculty/announcements/next-steps-course-building/.  ... View more

We've had a similar situation here. Mostly we built master (what we call 'model') courses when we had a big enrollment push. At first we recommended that faculty only alter a few minor things to make the courses their own, but we always kept the edit button option for almost all of the course elements (barring a few content items built in an external tool). We felt this was important, since faculty could still feel like they have control over their courses, and also because we didn't have the funding to maintain the courses after the initial build. Now we use the courses primarily as templates for instructors in a particular discipline and encourage faculty to update and share with others. This has resulted in several of our courses becoming more robust based on student feedback/demand, and the discipline faculty feel a greater sense of ownership of the courses as a whole. We also have a template with blank content that we offer to our instructors to give them some direction when building. We let all of them know that this is really to help maintain consistency in our course navigation and has a positive impact on the students. Unfortunately we do not have a course review process yet at our institution, as it is a negotiated item. However, because many instructors have either participated in our model course program or have asked for the template, there is an overall shape to our courses that many instructors use. ... View more

Your resources have helped a lot, Jeremy! Thanks so much! ... View more

That's a great idea if you have the budget! ... View more

This is awesome! Thanks so much! ... View more

Piktochart & Canva are both great! Both work really well in Canvas, too! ... View more

I definitely second Jim's recommendations about conferences -- DETCHE is a great conference to attend! An easy authoring tool is a must, but you would need to make certain that you can support it. Also, as someone else recommended -- start with a Camtasia license or two. A good microphone helps as well -- the Blue Snowball ​is a great and affordable tool that gives you very good results. One thing that colleges do is they go overboard on tools. Maybe getting your faculty/DE Committee together to brainstorm what the campus really needs? Can you all vet a few tools and decide what would work best (and be most easily supported) by your current staff? Another thing would be potential faculty stipends for training (or PD credit if your campus/HR folks grant it). If faculty, for example, are going to have external training, how would the campus support that? ... View more

This is wonderful! I happen to be covering modules & structure in my training next week, so this comes at a great time! ... View more

I think templates would be an awesome idea! Many faculty are overwhelmed by the choices they have in the RCE, and having several standard templates that don't require HTML knowledge would help a lot. We've created a few, but it would be nice to have 'fields' that faculty could use to minimize any issues they might have with templates that we create for them where they may change some of the HTML by accident... I would love to see a template with columns and various options for tabbed content, accordions, etc. While it's easy enough for me to do this, it would be awesome to be able to give faculty the option to choose from some predetermined layouts. ... View more

Awesome, thanks! Is this licensed under Creative Commons? Can we use this for our faculty? ... View more

That's so awesome! ... View more

Lindsay, I found this too when I started using tabs. Basically you just have a page with content. There are 2 things I do to work around this: Use headings to organize the content within a tab -- usually giving the title of the content in the tab a <h3>. This helps to organize the content on the mobile apps. Let users know that there is a difference between desktop & mobile view: Click on the tabs below (or scroll if using the mobile app) to view... ... View more