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tobe_baeyens · ‎03-29-2022

@dlyons Great! Thanks.

tobe_baeyens · ‎10-16-2020

Great idea. It would make it much more clear if Canvas Studio was the only option.

tobe_baeyens · ‎03-12-2020

One of our teachers used BigBlueButton today because of the outbreak. Others have been used it before. He was very happy about the experiment. More students, more interaction, really well suited for education (students raise their hands, chat works well, a lot of interactions through easy polling,...). Tomorrow we will move all lessons online and we will suggest to use BigBlueButton for online synchronous teaching.

tobe_baeyens · ‎02-25-2020

@Robbie_Grant ‌, Yes. I did figure it out in the end. There is a bug in Canvas. 1. Students are added to a course with different sections. 2. The teacher wants to add some of this students to a section. He can do this in the people tab (+people, paste email addresses, select the name of the section) 3. Students will be invited to participate to the new section, but before they accept the invitation, they will be able to access assignments, quizzes,... that are only available for the section they have been invited to. 4. Students will be able to submit quizzes and the grades will be available in the gradebook. 5. After that, students can still decline the course invitation, and the grades that were in the gradebook will disappear. The teacher will not be noticed of this. Everything seems normal until grades suddenly disappear. This can be tricky if the quizzes and assignments are used to calculate a final grade. I will create a ticket for this, because Canvas support told me that this was normal behaviour, and that dual enrolment should be avoided. Kindly regards, Tobe Baeyens

tobe_baeyens · ‎02-19-2020

Thanks for opening up this idea for voting. It's not a problem for me that the new behaviour is different from the behaviour in the old RCE. What I do think is a problem, is that 1. Text gets lost when adding links to a new file. This is not an improvement. 2. The behaviour in the new RCE is inconsistent, as I described in my previous comment.

tobe_baeyens · ‎02-19-2020

Great idea. There are some workarounds that I use now: I add the number in the beginning (f.e. T1: Homework) I resize the columns of my gradebook (drag between them) I order my gradebook in the same order as my modules (view -> arrange by module, first to last, view -> filters, modules)

tobe_baeyens · ‎02-19-2020

A digital course that's well structured, and does focus on teaching and learning will be beneficial for all, but especially for students that need more support or less support then the average student. Difficult topics can be explained by the use of short video tutorials. Students can pause, replay, skip the parts they do need / do not need. In a traditional classroom communication is synchronised. A teacher can give more frequently feedback (speedgrader is good for that) Let students submit draft versions of their assignment Measure progress, and support students that have difficulties Only teach if there is a clear adventage, a combination of video, text, learning activities,... can replace some of your teaching time

tobe_baeyens · ‎02-19-2020

We have 1 synchronised section in Canvas that contains teachers from our SIS system, and multiple synchronised sections with students from SIS. The first section in every course is empty and is called: 1. manually added people Teachers can add students (and other teachers) to their course. The synchronised sections will be synced every night with our SIS system, but the 1st section and other sections created in the course will not. Teachers do use this functionality from time to time to give access for specific reasons: f.e. students act as a buddy in a course they are not enrolled in students work together in a course with students from another institution (f.e. for an international project) an external person is added to the course (f.e. somebody from a work environment that's related to the course) ...

tobe_baeyens · ‎02-19-2020

The course navigation menu (home, announcements, assignments,...) is missing in new quizzes. Idea: Show the course navigation menu while editing and taking a quiz in New Quizzes.

tobe_baeyens · ‎02-19-2020

Another reason to stick to one editor is that there can be custom integrations in the editor. In our institution we use Canvas Studio. This is available in the new RCE but not in the new quizzes RCE.

tobe_baeyens · ‎02-19-2020

Hi Adam, It's true that you can always change the text of a hyperlink in the new RCE. In the old RCE you could also select some text and turn that into a hyperlink without losing the selected text. In new RCE this is sometimes the case: Select text and insert link to course document: selected text turns into hyperlink Select text and insert link to user document: selected text turns into hyperlink Select text and insert course link: selected text turns into hyperlink Select text and insert hyperlink: selected text turns into hyperlink Select text and insert link to document that has to be uploaded: selected text will be replaced by filename and the filename will turn into hyperlink. The selected text is lost. This is behaviour that is unexpected, and information that has been added will disappear. Adding a hyperlink should always work in the same way. If not, people will lose their confident in what they are doing. I suggest that this mistake should be rectified. Kindly regards, Tobe Baeyens

tobe_baeyens · ‎02-17-2020

Hi, I can't add add a link to a newly uploaded document to selected text in the new RCE. In the old RCE you can select some text and add a link to a newly added document without changing the text. In the new RCE when you select text, and add a link to a new document that you upload from your computer, the text you've selected will be replaced with the filename of the new document. Adding internal links to pages was one of the killer features in the old RCE. It was very easy to connect course content without leaving the editor area. I suggest that this mistake should be rectified. Kindly regards, Tobe Baeyens 🔎 This idea has been archived. While this idea isn't open for comments, it is an important part of Instructure’s idea conversations and development process . Contributions like this are valuable as Instructure prioritizes work on new or existing features.

tobe_baeyens · ‎09-19-2019

Hey, One of our teachers wants to use speedgrader on the go. What would you recommend? Is speedgrader compatible with every tablet? Is it better to use a browser or the Canvas teacher app to grade assignments? What about using a digital pen? Are all pen tablets supported? We had some teachers that used a tablet (iOS, Android), but decided after some experience to use a laptop for serious marking. Are there other people that had issues with speedgrader on iOS or Android? Kindly regards, Tobe Baeyens

tobe_baeyens · ‎09-16-2019

Hi, One of our teachers did add students to a newly created section. After a few weeks he noticed that two students were not enrolled in the section anymore. The students told the teacher that they did get a reminder from Canvas with the question if they still wanted to be subscribed in the section. The students that did answer no, where unenrolled from the section. Is this possible? Does Canvas let students unenroll themself from sections? Kindly regards, Tobe Baeyens

tobe_baeyens · ‎05-14-2019

Share how you approach course design. How do you organize content so it’s efficient for both instructors and students? What tips and/or tools can you share? Assignments are the fundamental building blocks in a Canvas course. They are the milestones that students can achieve. Assignments can be big Assignments that are placed at the end of a module, can be used to check if the student has achieved the intended learning outcomes. Assignments can be small Every time you ask your students to do something, you are giving them an assignment. You can ask your student to read a few lines of text, and to underline some keywords. You can ask your students to come up with an idea for a project. You can ask your students to take a picture of their work. You can ask your students to work on some exercises in a document. You can ask your students to summarise what they saw in a video. A course could in theory only contain assignments. The course would be like an online exercise workbook. An assignment could, in that case, contain one or more exercises that the students have to complete. Explain how you structure course flow. How do you keep content and learning experiences “tidy”? Does it make a difference for learners? If so, how? It's important to clearly present the content in every assignment, and to organise the different assignments in your modules, your assignment groups, your gradebook, etc. Present the content in your assignments An assignment should have: A title: The title should be short and concise. Add an abbreviation if the assignment is part of a module (f.e. LO1) Settings: Submission date, grade, submission type, etc. A short description: The description should explain what the assignment is about. A list with steps the student has to undertake: This could be as simple as: 1. Download a document. 2. Answer the questions in the document. 3. Submit the document. Links to additional information: Frequently asked questions, agreements the student must comply with, etc. A rubric: To communicate the intended learning outcomes. Organise the assignment in modules Add your assignments to modules to provide context. Adding other resources to your modules, helps your students with finding all the necessary information in one place. (more information about this is in my other blog post: Providing structure with modules.) An alternative to adding activities (worked examples, video's,...) to modules, is to add the links to activities to the assignments description. This can be useful when you are working with a lot of smaller assignments. An extra advantage is that you can digitally handout these assignments to individual students with the 'assign to' function in Canvas. Adding all the information that students need, to the assignment itself, makes it much easier to do this, and to differentiate. Gradebook 2.0 has some great functions to filter assignments by modules, sections and students. It can become a dashboard that shows you which assignments are assigned to which students, and where you have to give feedback. Learn more about the May 2019 Blogging Challenge Read more "It's Time to Kondo" stories .

tobe_baeyens · ‎05-09-2019

Share how you approach course design. How do you organize content so it’s efficient for both instructors and students? What tips and/or tools can you share? Designing an effective course in Canvas isn't easy. There are many choices that can be made. After two years of working with teachers and support staff in our institution, I finally came up with a template that's good for most teachers. Turn modules into your home page. Hide everything in navigation except Home, Announcements, Grades and People. Add the last announcement to the top of the home page. Add an 'introductory module' with course information. The introductory module looks like a numbered list. This makes it easy to communicate to students where they can find the necessary information. Another advantage is that the numbered items appear at the top when you navigate to pages. Add requirements (view the item, or mark the item as read) to every page of the ''introductory module''. Explain how you structure course flow. How do you keep content and learning experiences “tidy”? Does it make a difference for learners? If so, how? Add a module underneath the ''introductory module'' for every every lesson you teach. Give these modules a name and a three letter abbreviation (f.e. LO1). Use this abbreviation for every item in the module. This makes it easy to find out to which lesson a quiz, assignment or page belongs to. Start with an introductory page. This page can contain learning outcomes, a short introduction, a video,... Add a page with learning activities. Add files to this page (slides, articles,...) and explain why students need them. Add interactive elements to your module (quizzes, discussions,...) End your module with an assignment so you can check if the learning outcomes are achieved. (more information about this is in my other blog post: Assignments as fundamental building blocks. ) Add requirements if necessary: f.e. view the page, submit the assignment, etc. By adding requirements you tell your people what you expect. You can make content available after they completed some requirements, but this is often not necessary. Just adding the requirements, makes sure your students know what to do, and it becomes very easy for you as a teacher to track students progress. Learn more about the May 2019 Blogging Challenge Read more "It's Time to Kondo" stories .

tobe_baeyens · ‎02-18-2019

I agree. The system should prevent a user from leaving this page without at least prompting them to save their changes. This happens on other pages and not having it in settings is a usability bug.

tobe_baeyens · ‎12-18-2018

I just noticed this very long thread. We do need this feature because we are using Arc (the video tool from Instructure). Sometimes teachers record face-to-face assignments. The video will be on the teachers device. The student can't submit the video. At the moment we have two workarounds: Not using assignments. The teacher can share the video with the student. The problem is that this is very unpractical. The teacher can only share an Arc video if the student has watched Arc video's in the course of that teacher. Sending the video to the student with another tool (wetransfer,...) and asking the student to upload the video, but then there is no point in using Canvas.

tobe_baeyens · ‎11-13-2018

Hey @fabiosousa ‌, I did insert the video in the discussion with the blue Arc button in the editor. It doesn't seem to allow comments in groups. Everywhere else, it works fine. I guess this has something to do with how Arc stores de comment data. This is normally done at course level, and not at comments level.

tobe_baeyens · ‎11-08-2018

Hi, Our students use Arc to share the video's they made. They do this in groups in Canvas in a discussion. When they click the blue Arc video button in the WYSIWYG editor, they can allow comments, but when they embed the video the comments tool is not shown underneath the video. As you can see the video is there, but no options to comment on the Arc video (while this was enabled). How can this be solved?

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New Quizzes: Show course navigation menu The course navigation menu (home, announcements, assignments,...) is missing in new quizzes. Idea: Show the course navigation menu while editing and taking a quiz in New Quizzes.	02-19-2020	1064	19
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