Video assignment submissions can be a great alternative to classic essay or quiz assessments, promoting authenticity and demonstrating real mastery while also reducing the chances of academic dishonesty. In Canvas, there are two good and fairly easy-to-use tools for...
One of the powerful things about Canvas is that there are many ways for instructors and students to create and navigate course content. For example, assignments can be created from the Assignments list page or directly within a module. Students, likewise, can access...
Did you take a look at your Canvas shell after migrating your Moodle content to find a shockingly blank gradebook? Do use weighted grade categories but have no idea how to enable that in Canvas? Are you confused about where assignments are created and where...
Changing assignment due dates can be one of the most tedious and time-consuming (not to mention boring) parts of preparing your online course materials for a new semester. Thankfully, Canvas makes changing dates a snap! Watch this tutorial to explore all three easy...
Ding dong, the Moodle is dead. And stepping into its ruby slippers: Canvas. It’s hard to believe a year has passed since we first introduced Canvas to a small group of pilot instructors. Since last fall, Canvas use has grown quickly, with at least 350 NMC courses now...
Feeling anxious about the fall semester? Worried you won’t feel comfortable teaching in Canvas? Don’t worry — Ed Tech has you covered with THREE Canvas Camp dates to choose from! And who doesn’t love camp? Well… I suppose this is where I should admit to being terribly...
As the Spring semester races toward the finish line, we know exactly what you’re thinking: “Ack! Moodle is almost gone! Canvas! What do I do?!?” Luckily, your friendly neighborhood educational technologists have spent the past year preparing for this very moment, and...
Are you concerned you won't be ready for the start of fall semester? Do you need a META shell or help importing course content? Has the Moodle attendance activity gotten you confused (again)? Do you have questions about Canvas (available to all for the spring 2025...
In an earlier post, I surveyed differing approaches to issues of sourcing, transparency and ‘information integrity’ in generative AI platforms. The underlying questions there dealt with how AI tools handle sourcing and citation within their own algorithmically generated output. A second distinct but related challenge deals with developing new norms around transparency and disclosure as it relates to human use of AI tools in the human authorship of work—which is to say our work, and the work of our students.