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Quick Tip: Handling Late Submissions in the Canvas Gradebook
Do you get emails from students that need you to re-open something? It can be frustrating because it creates more work for you. Canvas can help you accept that work with an automatic deduction. This week, we will show you how you can utilize the automatic deduction option instead of using the 鈥淎vailable until鈥 setting.
Quick Tip: Handling Missing Submissions in the Canvas Gradebook
Consider enabling the Missing Submission Policy in your Gradebook settings. Once enabled, this policy will automatically enter zeros for missed assignments, saving you time and ensuring that your students鈥 running totals are kept up to date.
Quick Tip: Add Additional Time to In-Progress Quiz Attempts
We are happy to announce the release of a new feature in Canvas New Quizzes: the ability to add extra time to a student鈥檚 in-progress quiz attempt!
Instructors can now extend the time for students who are actively taking a quiz. This new feature allows you accommodate students who may need extra time without interrupting their workflow or requiring them to take a second quiz attempt.
Quick Tip: Get alerts for broken links in your Canvas courses
Did you know that Canvas can alert you when a student clicks on a broken link in your course? These notifications can help you catch and fix broken links quickly.
Quick Tip: Handling Extra Credit in Canvas
In this Quick Tip, we will discuss how instructors can add extra credit in their Canvas courses. It鈥檚 a question the RCID team has received from faculty regularly over the years, so we thought it would be good to share more broadly.
Quick Tip: Canvas Announcements 201
In this Quick Tip, we would like to showcase a few options for creating and delivering engaging announcements in your course.
Quick Tip: Fall 2024 Online Teaching Workshops
In our last Quick Tip, we directed you to a helpful new resource for instructors as they consider course design and learning activities.
We are happy to promote a series of workshops offered by the 两性色午夜 Online team to further support those looking to apply the concepts from the Design, Build, and Teach pathways.
Quick Tip: New Design, Build, Teach Pathways
Introducing the new Design, Build, Teach Pathways, a series of asynchronous, self-paced Canvas courses that guide you through foundational concepts and best practices for online teaching. These courses have been designed to accommodate a variety of learning preferences with various options for participation.
Quick Tips IMPROVE Series, Part 7: Editor Tips and Tricks
By now, you鈥檝e learned all about how to leverage Canvas Modules, Pages, and the Rich Content Editor (RCE) to improve how course materials are presented and how students view and interact with the content.
In this final installment, we are taking a look at the letter E in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for Editor Tips and Tricks. We know that working with any online text editor can present some challenges, so we鈥檇 like to share the team鈥檚 favorite tips and tricks for working with the Rich Content Editor (RCE) more efficiently.
Quick Tips IMPROVE Series, Part 6: UniVersal Design
Welcome back to the IMPROVE series of Quick Tips. Today we鈥檙e looking at the letter V in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for UniVersal Design Tips. Okay, yes, we took some liberties with that one, but bear with us -- acronyms are tricky to come up with!
We鈥檝e focused the last few weeks on creating page content via text and various kinds of media. We鈥檝e touched on accessibility throughout, but we wanted to take a week to highlight universal design strategies that can help make your Canvas content accessible not only for those with differing abilities, but for ALL learners.