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Canvas – Annotate PDF files inside Canvas

MacBook As of 2021 teachers can create assignments using the new “student annotation” online selection. Video: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-New-Feature-Screencast/Assignments-Student-Annotation-Submissions-2021-05-15-Release/ta-p/460027 Student Directions: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Student-Guide/How-do-I-annotate-a-file-as-an-assignment-submission-in-Canvas/ta-p/463702. These directions do not work on iPads. For iPads you must use the iPad annotation directions at the bottom of the page. Old Way on MacBook This was an old way. I am leaving these directions in case anyone want to Read More …

Canvas – copy content between courses

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-copy-a-page-to-another-course/ta-p/1085 You can copy using the “copy to” option to copy: pages, quizzes, assignments, discussions, and modules.

ActivPanel – Board View Jumping

Try changing this setting: Right click on the desktop to bring up a menu Click “Display Settings” With Display blue in the left menu go to bottom right and click “Advanced Display settings” Scroll to bottom and click “Display adapter properties” Click Monitor tab  Click inside screen refresh rate and change to 60 Hertz

Canvas – New Quizzes and Test Banks

If you want to move a bank of questions over from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes. The simplest workaround would be to create a quiz and include all the questions from the test bank in it, then migrate that quiz into New Quizzes. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-create-a-quiz-by-finding-questions-in-a-question-bank/ta-p/1034How do I create a quiz by finding questions in a question bank? https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-migrate-a-Canvas-quiz-to-New-Quizzes/ta-p/991How do I migrate a Read More …

Canvas Menu

New Quizzes: How to migrate a classic quiz to New Quizzes How to move a test bank of questions from classic quizzes into New Quizzes How to randomize questions in Classic Quizzes. (New Quizzes does this with a button click.) Overview of Classic and New Quizzes. 2020 Bitmoji Craze: How to add a Bitmoji page(s) in Canvas so the links Read More …

Canvas: Making Announcements Show on Home Page

Here is setup for if you want your latest announcements to be visible at the top of the Home page in your canvas course. It does not matter what you set as home page, they still will show the number of announcements you select at the top of the page. I have my homepage set to modules in this example. Read More …

Nearpod: New Student Paced View Reports

Nearpod now has new view for student paced mode to help support home learning. You can see what your students are doing while they are working in the lesson. You don’t have to go to reports. Directions are here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP1avvwTCV4&feature=youtu.be

Canvas – Grading and Feedback with Annotations in SpeedGrader

General grading directions for Speedgrader: https://www.iorad.com/player/1649770/Canvas—how-to-grade-with-speedgrader-#trysteps-1 You can give feedback to a student submission with comments, annotations, and highlights right on the paper. In this example I show a highlight, annotation, and pin with comments added to each. Here are detailed directions: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-26515-4152719763

Nearpod: Embed Lesson in Canvas

You can embed Nearpod directly into Canvas as a student paced lesson. It will auto add the student name when they go to that assignment. When you go to speedgrader it pulls in the Nearpod grades for you to view and grade. Remember that Nearpod has lots of lessons already created. Go to Nearpod.com first and create or find your Read More …