Category: Canvas
Canvas Message Students Who – and Observers!
As we transitioned to the Canvas Gradebook, one feature that many teachers missed was the ability to message both students and parents/observers. Canvas was listening and now when you choose to "message students who" (have a missing assignment, low score, etc.) you can include the observers! Navigate to Grades Choose an assignment Select the 3 ...
Canvas – Organizing your Dashboard
You can make your dashboard more personal by editing the names of courses (this is on your end only) changing course colors, dragging and dropping your course icons to be in a specific order, or use the Star system to determine which courses are on your dashboard. Editing name and color Choose a course and ...
Canvas Pesky Imported Assignment, Move them in Bulk!
Are Imported Assignments the bane of your Canvas existence? You can quickly delete the entire assignment group and move the assignments at the same time. Open Assignments Find the Imported Assignments groupFrom the 3 dots, choose “Delete” Choose the group you want to move the assignments to and the Imported Assignments will be gone and your ...
Canvas Setting an Assignment Default Score
Did you collect an assignment on paper and just need to quickly add a score for all students? Or maybe you want to add a score for students who have not submitted? You have the option, by assignment, to add a default score. Open Grades for your course Find the assignment you want to score Using the ...
Quickly Add Links in Canvas and Anywhere CTRL-K
CTRL+K might just be your new best friend. When you need to insert a link (for an image or highlighted text) you can quickly copy the link from the original source (CTRL+C) and then in Canvas or other website/document choose CTRL+K to launch the add-link. Here is an example in Canvas after highlighting the text: ...
Canvas – Moving Grade Total to Front in Gradebook
The tip this week is just to make grading in your course a little easier. You may choose to move the Canvas grade “Total” to the front in order to easily see student grades. This helps when transferring grades from Canvas to Skyward and ultimately saves from scrolling down to see the grade total. Open ...
Canvas – Setting Course Default Time
We are creating a series of posts as a part of the "All the Canvas tips you never knew you needed!" We will share a weekly tip until we run out of them. If you have ideas you would like to share, please feel free to pass them to your Ed Tech Lead or Tech ...
Canvas Grading Periods for HS Semesters
Grading periods are back! We explored using them when our secondary courses were yearlong in the 2020-2021 school year, but we have brought them back to our high school semesters in the form of quarter grading periods. Why did we do this? One of the questions that arose often this past year was how a ...
How To Handle the Semester Transition
Whether it is starting a new school year, or attempting to straddle the transition from one trimester to a new one, there are important administrative and curricular things to consider and pay attention to when starting up a new term. With our switch to Canvas, and the move to a separate course for each term, ...
Canvas Gradebook Improvements Jan 2022
They are listening! That is what I have to say about the Canvas Instructure team. This month there are two significant changes in the Gradebook that many teachers will want to send kudos their way. Gradebook Split Name Columns First, teachers can now view their gradebook with student names separated into First and Last name ...