Canvas Group Sets for Assignments
Canvas allows the creation of Group Sets for a variety of purposes...one being group work. But in the greater scheme of assigning work to your students, you can also assign by group sets...what does this mean? When you create an assignment, you then check it as a group assignment (grade individually), this then allows you ...
Canvas and Actively Learn
For all my friends who love Actively Learn, it now integrates into Canvas and will offer some benefits when you do. First, it will roster your students from Canvas, no need for codes anymore. Second, when you create an assignment in Actively Learn and sync it to Canvas, it will appear in your Canvas assignment ...
Canvas Office Cloud Assignment Tips
For those of you who love Teams and the ease of creating cloud assignments for your students, never fear, Canvas has a similar ability. Here are some of tips I've gathered from working with you all the past few weeks. You asked, we are answering, here are some tips for using Office in Canvas Question: ...
Canvas External Tools Rubric Workaround
You want the best of both worlds - to use an external tool integration for your assignment, but to grade it with a rubric! I am hoping with voting up, this will soon become a seamless work path in Canvas, but until then, there is a workaround. Thank your summer instructors Erin Kwok and Chris ...
Using Flipgrid in Canvas
Getting Flipgrid set up in Canvas Are you ready to get your Flipgrid on? Before you do, here are the pros and cons of adding it to Canvas. Pros: It is easy to access from your course for both you and your students It will automatically register your students in your Flipgrid group (previously grid) ...
Secondary Ed Tech PD Opportunity
Interested in more Ed Tech PD before the school year begins? On August 21st and 24th, there will be optional training designed to help you go deeper in understanding how to use Canvas to support learning remotely. Each day is split into two three-hour sessions - attend one or all four! Want to Attend? Remember ...
Ed Tech Summer Camp 2020
Ed Tech Summer Camp Get ready to get your learning on this summer. Ed Tech Summer Camp will be offered July 28-31 with two sections available per day. Morning sessions will run from 8:30-11:30 and PM sessions from 12:30-3:30. Elementary Courses: July 28 & 29: Focus on Seesaw and how to use it in your ...
What to do with those pesky PDFs?
As we have moved to a remote learning environment, you may be straddled with a curriculum full of PDFs. Unfortunately, these are not as easy to navigate in the online world without a hefty knowledge of Adobe. Well, we have some awesome workarounds for getting students to interact with those pesky PDFs. Option 1: Convert ...
Gallery Walks with Adobe Creative Cloud Express
Adobe Creative Cloud Express (previously Adobe Spark) offers several creative options for you and your students. Using Classlink or Clever, students and teachers can launch the Adobe Creative Cloud app, sign in using their Microsoft account, and choose a project. One option is creating a video. Whether starting from a template or scratch, the video ...
Meeting Options, I forgot to change it!
Has your meeting started with all your lovely kiddos and you realize you forgot to change the presentation options? Are students randomly muting one another or worse you? The quick fix to changing meeting options while in the meeting is here! First you will need to open the participants window from your Teams taskbar: Then ...