The Instructional Design Team (Erica) will be holding open office hours for anyone to stop by for help setting up their fall courses.
Create a Zoom Meeting in Canvas: The Easy Way
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…
5 Tips for Facilitating Online Discussions
Online discussions are a great way to get students writing, thinking, and interacting with each other when they can’t be in a classroom together. They can enhance face-to-face classes, too – when students think critically about a topic before in-person discussions, it helps create richer conversations. But creating and facilitating meaningful online student discussions isn’t always…
Canvas Quick Tip: Quickly Adjust Due Dates on Imported Classes
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…
Easily Check Your Canvas Courses for Accessibility
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…