Category: Tool Bits
DyKnow Basics – Adding and Removing Students
DyKnow allows users to add and remove students in current courses manually. DyKnow course rosters are updated nightly based on Skyward communication. However, the ability to manually add or remove a student may be helpful when a student is absent from class, or when you have a student in your classroom when it is not ...
A Student-Centered Approach to Digital Discussions & Research
Jake Crowley, an English teacher at Liberty High School, recently decided to see how digital tools could enhance his literature units for his American Lit and Contemporary Literature classes. Spurred by the recent Digital Learning Experience discussion activity hosted by his Ed Tech Lead, Erin Stephens, Crowley decided he wanted to blend his knowledge of ...
Canvas Calendar is for more than assignments
Did you know that you and your students are able to create calendar events and to-do list items? As the teacher, you can create events (beyond assignments) for your classes. Students can create events/to-do list items for their own Canvas calendar (much like a virtual planner). Students associated with a Group can also add to-do list ...
Celebrate Computer Science Education Week with Seesaw
It’s time to celebrate Computer Science Education, and it’s even better when we have core tools to do so! Seesaw is offering several live webinars for classrooms to tune into this week (see below) as well as extensive collections of computer science related activities. Explore Computer Science Collections and Resources Seesaw has ready-made lessons and ...
Canvas Apply Score to Ungraded
Have you wondered about how you can quickly address ungraded assignments in your gradebook? This tip showcases how to apply 0 (or another score) throughout a grade book in just a couple of clicks. The Apply Score to Ungraded Assignments feature allows scores to be applied to multiple ungraded submissions at once (similar to set default score which can only be done ...
DyKnow Communication – Send a Message
DyKnow Communication DyKnow allows teachers to communicate with students while in active monitoring session in 3 ways: Student UnderstandingQuestionsSend a Message All of these tools are available on the right side of the DyKnow monitoring screen. This post will review how to use the Send a Message communication tool. Send a Message In the Send ...
DyKnow New Features – Combine Classes
Recently, the DyKnow classroom monitoring program has added a couple of helpful features. Today we will learn how to combine classes. Combine Classes From the My Classes view, you now have a new button in the upper right corner where it says, "Combine Classes". You can combine any number of classes into one combined class ...
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 dots and ...
DyKnow Communication – Questions
DyKnow Communication DyKnow allows teachers to communicate with students while in active monitoring session in 3 ways: Student UnderstandingQuestionsSend a Message All of these tools are available on the right side of the DyKnow monitoring screen. This post will review how to use the Questions communication tool. Questions In the Questions section (the question mark ...
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 ...
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