Canvas LMS News
February 9, 2021
Explore the Canvas course template
UW-IT and UW Learning Technologies developed a basic course template to help instructors quickly create courses that are easy for students to navigate. The template, which organizes course content within modules, is designed to accommodate a range of disciplines and teaching approaches. The design of the template was guided by two priorities: 1) to ease and simplify course creation, 2) to help students find the information they need. Our goal is for the template to empower instructors: to help them confident that they are creating a course that students will find easy to use.
February 9, 2021
Resources for Teaching Remotely
Explore resources for teaching remotely: UW information hubs from Bothell, Seattle, and Tacoma, including the Roadmap to Effective Online Teaching. Also included are Canvas course templates, Canvas model courses, a Canvas course readiness checklist and guides for teaching with UW technologies. Get support for remote teaching from video resources and workshops and webinars. Review the resources now.
February 9, 2021
UW Course Readiness Checklist for Online Instruction
Check out the course readiness checklist when setting up a Canvas course for remote instruction. From setting up your Canvas site, adding course content to modules, customizing navigation, creating assignments and quizzes, setting up grading, helping students get started, making content accessible to all learners, and establishing your presence as instructor in a remote environment, the checklist can help you feel more confident when approaching remote instruction. This resource was created by the UW Tri-Campus Committee for Online Learning Resources and Practices.
September 19, 2019
Introducing Ally: Accessible formats for course files
Ally, provided by Blackboard, generates alternative formats of course files uploaded by instructors—such as text that is readable by a screen reader, electronic braille, or audio—that students can download and use to support their learning. Ally’s alternative formats feature is now available in all Canvas courses. To make course content easily accessible to all students, Ally converts files to formats that work better for everyone, not just those with particular learning requirements. For example, some students may prefer to listen rather than read. Ally provides audio conversions of text-based files. Or some students may need an electronic braille format or...
August 11, 2019
New features and updates
Newly added LTI tools available for all courses Office 365 LTI This LTI tool offers integration with Microsoft Office 365 in Assignments, Collaborations, Modules, and the Rich Content Editor. Students and instructors can use, create, share, and collaborate on Office 365 files within Canvas. Providing an easy selection and embedding of files from OneDrive, students can submit files from OneDrive. Using the Office 365 LTI instructors can also share a template for student assignments. Prefer Google to Office 365? A Google LTI to use with Canvas will be released in winter quarter 2019. GALE virtual reference library Gale Virtual Reference Library...
July 30, 2019
Reminder: End-of-quarter checklist
The end-of-quarter checklist provides pointers for wrapping up your Canvas course: submitting grades, conducting an inventory of course content for use in a future session, exporting course content, and marking the course read-only for students. And because quarters come and go so quickly, you may want to check out the start-of-quarter UW Canvas checklist.