Day: June 18, 2020

About Conferences

by adminCanvas Course Design

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

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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What are Collaborations

by adminCanvas Course Design

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?

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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About Groups

by adminCanvas Course Design

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:

  • Create a new group set and create subgroups automatically or manually
  • Assign students to subgroups automatically or manually
  • Allow students to sign up for their own groups
  • Expand and collapse subgroups
  • Move students into different subgroups
  • Create group collaborations
  • View all activity within all the groups within a course
  • View all created groups within the course
  • Edit or delete group sets

To learn more about groups, feel free to watch the Groups Management Video and the Groups Tutorials listed below.

Group Assessment Tutorials

More Group 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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