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Improving Accessibility with Canvas’ Rich Content Editor

Small formatting changes on Canvas Pages, Assignments, Quizzes and the Syllabus page can make your course more accessible. Using the suggestions below will improve clarity, readability, and navigation for all your students. In the Rich Content Editor (RCE) menu bar,…

April 28, 2022 in Canvas, Educational Technology.

Discussions in Canvas – Asking Good Questions – Part 1

Asking questions is one of the most powerful tools we have as instructors. Just like asking good questions in class, promoting discussion with questions that capture students’ attention and stimulate intellectual engagement can be facilitated online, using Canvas Discussions. Crafting…

April 12, 2022 in Canvas, Educational Technology, Educational Theory, Instructional Strategies, Remote Teaching.

Choosing a mix of F2F and remote online? Tips for smoother hybrid approaches

The University has announced a return to campus stating Feb. 7th.  With the exception of some specific programs designed to provide hybrid options, instructors are not expected to teach students face to face (F2F) and online at the same time…

February 2, 2022 in Canvas, Educational Technology, Remote Teaching.

Immersive Reader Enhances Accessibility in Canvas

The Immersive Reader option in Canvas helps students access your course materials, whether they have a certain learning or medical disability, use English as an additional language – or could simply benefit from its text to speech function. The Immersive…

January 4, 2022 in Canvas, Educational Technology, Inclusivity.

Collaboration technical tools

One of the essential goals of the Learning Technology Ecosystem at USask is to allow students to connect to others. While collaboration skills are one of the essential skills most employers describe, the need for collaboration tools is actually more…

November 18, 2021 in Educational Technology.

GMCTL to Launch New Open Course on Open in Early February

The University of Saskatchewan is a leader in Canada around open educational resources (e.g. textbooks) and is moving toward wider integration of open pedagogy (students as contributors, not just consumers of knowledge). As part of this, and in the spirit…

November 1, 2021 in Educational Technology, General, Inclusivity, Instructional Strategies, Open.

USask spaces that flex with the type of learning

Many USask classrooms have been designed with one thing in mind – successful transmission of information from the faculty member to the students.  Even as technologies changed over time, that model did not – we just added screens, data projectors…

October 22, 2021 in Educational Technology, Indigenization, Decolonization, Reconciliation, Internationalization.

Turn Pre-Class Readings into Social Learning

When we design courses, we carefully choose readings or videos for students to review before coming to class. We then plan for the fantastic discussions and activities that will occur in class. All too often, when we arrive in class,…

October 20, 2021 in Educational Technology.

Using Zoom Meetings in Canvas

Zoom is a web conferencing tool available in Canvas. To be enabled, it has to be added to the course navigation menu. Zoom can be used to schedule lectures, group meetings or appointments. Students can join any virtual meeting directly…

September 21, 2021 in Canvas, Educational Technology, Inclusivity, Instructional Strategies, Remote Teaching.

Making it Accessible: Turn on live captions in Zoom

When you have certain learning disabilities or you are studying in a language you aren’t fully fluent in, it is easy to miss important details of what your professor says.  As an instructor, you can make what you say accessible…

September 17, 2021 in Educational Technology, Inclusivity, Instructional / Course Design, Uncategorized.

Canvas Online Attendance

Canvas has just released an online attendance dashboard for instructors who are teaching online and who want to define attendance around students’ interactions within Canvas. You can access the online attendance dashboard through the New Analytics link either from the…

August 24, 2021 in Canvas, Educational Technology, Remote Teaching.

Keep recording when you present content

The move to remote instruction with COVID-19 forced a pivot that was frustrating for educators and students alike.  USask collected data about the student learning experience in focus groups and surveys throughout the pandemic.  Students consistently told us they missed…

August 4, 2021 in Educational Technology, Instructional Strategies, Remote Teaching.

Personalizing Feedback with Canvas Audio Visual Tools

As instructors and teaching assistants, we invest a great deal of time in giving feedback to students to enhance their learning and improve their performance. Giving meaningful feedback involves describing what we experience when excellence catches our attention, building on…

June 21, 2021 in Canvas, Educational Technology.

How Do I Subscribe to This Blog, and Other Sites

There have been some recent inquiries about how to subscribe to this blog, which is great. We love to hear that readers are finding this site helpful. This post will explain how to use RSS (Real Simple Syndication) to subscribe to…

April 5, 2021 in Educational Technology, General.

You can only make a first impression once – make it a good one with your Canvas Homepage

Co-written by Toni Marchione and Ryan Banow, GMCTL Your course homepage is the first thing that students see when they log in to your Canvas course. It is their first impression of your course. As a landing page, it should be inviting, informative and easy to navigate.   Canvas…

March 10, 2021 in Canvas, Educational Technology, Remote Teaching.

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