Canvas New Gradebook Overview
In this blog post, you will learn how to use the New Gradebook in Canvas. The New Gradebook helps instructors easily input, manage, and release grades to students. Please note…
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Access to Learning Analytics inside Canvas
This article provides instructors with tutorials for accessing course and student analytics in Canvas. Canvas Analytics provides an overview of students’ activity within your course. You can use this data…
Identify Online Tools for Teaching and Learning
Online educational tools provide engaging environments for students with various needs. However, exploring new tools can be time-consuming for students without any advice on how to select the appropriate learning…
Ways of Implementing UDL principles in Canvas
As educators, we tend to replicate techniques we are comfortable using while assuming our students are OK with them. But in fact, our learners differ in ways that “they perceive…
Incorporate Video Feedback in Teaching
In traditional educational contexts, providing meaningful feedback to students can enhance their learning and improve their learning performance. In online teaching contexts or in response to assignments submitted for formal…
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Fall 2014 Faculty Showcase Series
In November and December of 2014, we invited Emerson faculty with exemplary use of technology in their instruction to share their methods and impact with other members of the community….
File naming standards: eliminate future headaches
There are a lot of reasons that file naming standards should be your best friends. They are rad, responsible, and reliable. Just like the three R’s of old. But most…
The Power of File Restriction in Canvas
Don’t want students uploading a .docx instead of a .pdf? Or a .pages file at any point in time? Well you can, because Canvas allows File Restrictions! While editing your…
Add captions to your video
You can add captions to your video through YouTube and have the option of exporting the captions for use elsewhere. Captions enhance the accessibility of videos, and allows us, as…