Category: Tool Bits
Scheduling Appointments in Canvas Calendar
Our teachers have been busy unraveling the Canvas conundrum. There are so many features, it can be overwhelming. It is wonderful that we can share those insights here. This post is brought to you by Cayley Byrne and Melissa Miller from Issaquah Middle School. They have clarified how you can use Appointment Groups in Canvas ...
Canvas Learning Mastery Paths
Differentiation in Canvas is not as easy as we hoped. We can easily adjust due dates, but what is the best way of offering differentiated content? One way is through Learning Mastery Paths. Erin Kwok at Pacific Cascade Middle School has taken the initiative in understanding more about this feature in Canvas and its connection ...
Canvas Quizzes: Extra Time and Tries
As we are learning more about Canvas each week, from use and from collaboration and chatting with our fellow teachers, we would like to highlight some of those learnings. A special thank you to Kristie Bennett at Skyline High School for her contribution to the BNP this week and sharing her insights to quizzes and ...
Engage Students through Seesaw Choice Boards
Are you looking to offer students choice in how to engage with content, demonstrate their learning, and liven up routines? Try creating a “Choice Board” in Seesaw! Choice boards are essentially graphic organizers comprised of images or other shapes that offer students choice in how to complete an instructional activity. Choice boards have many powerful ...
Canvas Gradebook – Understanding the Color Coding
Canvas has color-coding to help you know when an assignment is late, excused, dropped, resubmitted or missing. The colors are very light pastels that can be difficult to read. Well, keep reading on how you can change the colors to be more bold and to help identify the categories based on your color preferences. First, ...
Canvas Gradebook Highlights
The gradebook in Canvas might present a new conundrum as you are now getting graded work and figuring out how this gets back to Skyward. Here are some helpful hints in navigating the Canvas gradebook and managing the sync to SIS. Initial Setup When first getting accustomed to your Canvas Gradebook, you have a few ...
Shake Up Clever Announcements with a Flipgrid Short
Elementary teachers, are you looking to liven up your Clever Teacher Announcements? Consider using Flipgrid Shorts to create a video message for students with your announcement of the day. Not only will you be building community and keeping students engaged, but you can use the whiteboard feature to include animations or written directions to your ...
Troubleshooting Tips for working with Students
"Help! It's not working!" is something you are likely hearing on a daily basis from your students as they try to navigate this online remote learning environment. It is to be expected. They are often relying on you to be the expert as the classroom teacher, but this is a new teaching environment and we ...
Turnitin and Canvas
Turnitin offers a direct integration in Canvas. What this means for you as a teacher is that you can create an external tool assignment and still have access to the Turnitin features and submission portal...all within Canvas. How this works for your students, they will open the assignment and have access to the Turnitin submission ...
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 ...