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Making Impactful Use of Canvas Analytics in Your Course
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Like many websites, Canvas collects data from users as they navigate their courses. Thankfully, unlike many websites, Canvas collects this data not for the purpose of selling it to advertisers but for the purpose of presenting it to instructors. Canvas presents collected student activity data in a course page titled “Course Analytics,” which contains charts and…
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PlayPosit: Time-Saving Tips
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What is PlayPosit? And what can PlayPosit do for you? What is PlayPosit? PlayPosit is a video resource tool integrated with Canvas that allows instructors to create interactive videos. Using PlayPosit terminology, these videos are referred to as bulbs. Instructors can embed questions or other engagement check-points, called interactions, into recorded lecture videos, YouTube videos,…
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“Required” Reading: Guiding Students Through Your Course with Canvas Module Requirements
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When you organize and present your Canvas content in modules, you gain the ability to add requirements that require each student to view and/or interact with specified course items before they can progress and access items positioned further down in the course module order. When used thoughtfully, module requirements are an effective tool for encouraging…
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Designing with Equity in Mind: Reflections and Assessment of an Online Chemistry Class
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With the abrupt transition to online learning in Spring 2020, followed by a summer of reflection guided by CATL’s Pivotal Pedagogies online course, Associate Professor Bree Lybbert found herself feeling inspired to design her new online class for Fall 2020 with equity in mind. In this post, Bree walks through how she applied some of…
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10 Tips for Reworking Online Discussions
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Tips collected by Luke Konkol We often hear that asynchronous online discussions “just don’t seem to work.” The reasons why run the gambit from feeling like busy-work for students to simply being too much to read. This post shares ten quick ideas (in no particular order) instructors might consider to tweak their online discussions and…