Teaching Strategies for Digital Class Meetings
Digital class meetings are sessions that some or all students attend via Zoom or another virtual meeting platform. Such meetings may be recorded for…
Key Things to Know about Your New Canvas Course
Canvas and D2L have many similarities and overlapping functions — but also some important differences. Here are some key differences you’re likely to…
Organizing Content in Canvas
Canvas has several tools for adding content to your course: Pages: Canvas-specific pages created within Canvas or imported from Commons Files: PDFs,…
Meet Canvas Commons
Commons is a learning object repository (LOR) that enables educators to find, import, and share learning resources in their Canvas courses. Commons…
Managing Your Canvas Site
Canvas has many features and tools for teaching a course. But you also need these “under the hood” functions for managing your course…
Getting Started with Canvas Basics
Course AccessTo access your PSU Canvas account, go to canvas.pdx.edu. You will be prompted to authenticate with your PSU Odin name and password. This…
Student Interactions in Canvas
Student interaction plays an important role in learning and overall sense of community. Whether you’re teaching fully online, blended, or in-person,…
Discussions in Canvas
Discussions are threaded conversations on a single topic. They are asynchronous, which means participants do not have to be online at the same time,…
Using the Home Page in Canvas
When students log in to your course for the first time, they need something friendly and welcoming that orients them and explicitly communicates what…
Grading in Canvas
The Gradebook stores all information about student progress in the course, measuring both letter grades and course outcomes. This video provides a…
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