As online programs have steadily grown throughout higher education, so has the need for solutions to cheating in online courses. Today’s online students are under intense pressure to perform in their courses while managing full-time jobs and/or families. Because of a lack of time management or work ethic, there will always be students that find…
We’re excited that Zoom web conferencing is now available for all our faculty and students here at La Salle. One nice part of Zoom is that it’s integrated right into Canvas, so you and students never have to leave the LMS to take part in a meeting. Want to know the easy way to create a Zoom meeting in Canvas? Just follow these simple steps! Create…
If you’re teaching a course you taught in the past, you’re probably familiar with Canvas’s import tool. It lets you copy content from class to class and makes reteaching courses a breeze. However, when you’re importing a class, have you noticed the option to “Adjust events and due dates”? If you select this option and enter the…
We here on the ID Team care a lot about making courses as accessible as possible for all students, including those with disabilities. We’ve given presentations about accessibility, created a tutorial for faculty on accessibility, and work hard to search for tools that make it easy to create accessible content. That’s why we were so thrilled…
We’re excited to launch our new Instructional Design Team Newsletter! We’ll be reaching out to faculty and staff from time to time with tips, tools, tricks, and opportunities to help enhance instruction. If you don’t get the newsletter – or just want to revisit it -, we’ll be posting the contents of it here on…
What if there was a place where you could find and share instructional resources with other educators around the world who also use Canvas? There is. It’s called Canvas Commons, and, in the educational technology world, it’s what’s known as a “learning object repository” or LOR for short. In essence, it’s a searchable database containing thousands of Canvas courses,…
As you start to work on your fall courses, you might find yourself on Canvas saying something like, “Now, how do I do that thing I did at the start of last semester?” So we here at the Instructional Design Team wanted to provide three quick notes about setting up your courses in Canvas. Two are commonly used – but easy to forget – features of Canvas. The third is a slight change…
Have you seen the new La Salle Training Hub that the Instructional Design Team built? It’s a really valuable supplement to the already-established Canvas Faculty Guide. You can find all types of instructional videos, tutorials, and information that will help make you a whiz at navigating La Salle’s tech tools (and more!). There are three main categories on the Hub: Office Productivity These tools can be valuable to a wide array of…
The Instructional Design team is excited to get started with their second cohort of Teaching Online with La Salle participants. The course is designed to acclimate instructors to the unique demands of an online learning environment. It covers areas such as designing an online course, developing content, using Canvas tools, and building an effective syllabus. Online teaching…
You might notice a new feature in Canvas called student context cards. With this feature, Canvas is making it easier for faculty members to see a snapshot of an individual student’s progress in a course and to send an individual student a message in Canvas. Now when teachers click on a student’s name anywhere…
