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Set the Course Navigation

Post author By admin
Post date July 14, 2020

The first thing you should do before publishing the course is to edit the Course Navigation. Unlike Blackboard, the instructor control of the Canvas Course Navigation is a bit more restrictive.

Course Navigation items include:

Home (Required)
Announcements
Assignments
Attendance (Hidden unless made available)
Chat (Hidden unless made available)
Collaborations
Conferences
Discussions
Files
Grades
Modules
Outcomes
People
Pages
Quizzes
Syllabus
Settings (Visible to Instructors and TAs)

Instructors can reorder the tabs and even hide some of them. Tabs cannot be renamed. The purpose of this restriction is to attempt to streamline and simplify the menu options presented to students.

Course Navigation Tutorials

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Canvas Course Design

About Conferences

Post author By admin
Post date June 18, 2020

Canvas has integrated a web conferencing tool called Big Blue Button to extend the learning environment to the virtual space enabling synchronous (real-time) online meetings. Conferences allows users to

broadcast live audio and video
demo applications on your desktop
share presentation slides
demo any online resources

Conferences have a number of potential uses for both traditional face-to-face as well as distributed learning situations. Some possible use cases include virtual:

lectures
office hours
student group meetings
study groups

Students can even create their own conferences if they have:

Access to the Conferences menu item within a course
Have been placed within Groups
The Conferences tool is a standard tool available to Student Groups in Canvas.

To learn more about Conferences in Canvas, feel free to view the Conferences Overview Video and the Conference Tutorials on this page.

Conference Tutorials

What are Conferences?
Create a Conference
Create Long-running Conference
Edit a Conference
Start a Conference
Using the Conference Interface
Join a Conference
Record a Conference
- Note: Conference Recordings are deleted after 14 days and cannot be downloaded.
Delete a Conference
All Conferences Tutorials

Questions?

For questions about how these features might be implemented into a course design/course activities, please contact Geisel Instructional Technology Staff to schedule a one-on-one session to discuss these tools.

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Canvas Course Design

What are Collaborations

Post author By admin
Post date June 18, 2020

Canvas integrates Google Docs to allow multiple users to collaboratively edit documents. Since the Google Docs and EtherPad document changes are saved in real-time, changes made by any of the documents multiple editors are immediately visible to everyone with access to the document.

Google Docs

To learn more about the Collaboration tools in Canvas, feel free to review the Collaboration Overview Video and the Collaboration Tutorials linked to from this page.

Collaboration Tutorials

Questions?

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Canvas Course Design

About Groups

Post author By admin
Post date June 18, 2020

With the Groups feature in Canvas, instructors can organize the students into groups so they can work together on group projects and assignments: a paper, a presentation, etc. A Canvas group will provide students with a collaborative workspace where they can work in that small group to share files, hold video conferences, or work on group assignments created within the course.

Within Groups, instructors can: