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Canvas How-To Topics
Curious about how to create a Canvas assignment or announcement? Wondering how to setup a quiz or manage grades in Canvas? This page provides links to several how-to documents to help you navigate Canvas at the UO.
Canvas New Quizzes
This guide will walk you through enabling New Quizzes for your course; considerations when choosing between Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes; and links to additional resources.
Collecting and Using Student Feedback
Being an engaged teacher is one aspect of teaching excellence at UO. An important method of engagement is soliciting, analyzing, and using student feedback on your teaching. A great way to learn about your students–who, where, and how they are; what they’re struggling to understand about navigating…
Building Community in Your Class
A healthy class community encourages attendance, participation, and learning. To foster this community, it’s important to build relationships between you and your students and among your students as peers. your students form relationships with their peers.This resource focuses on general ways to…
Hypothesis Basics: Start Here
Hypothesis is a collaborative annotation tool that makes reading active, visible, and social. With Hypothesis, students engage with their readings, instructors, ideas, and each other in deeper, more meaningful ways. This page provides a roadmap to using Hypothesis in Canvas.Note about…
Perusall Basics - Start Here
Perusall is a collaborative annotation tool that makes reading active, visible, and social. With Perusall, students engage with their readings, instructors, ideas, and each other in deeper, more meaningful ways. This page provides a roadmap to using Perusall in Canvas.Note about hyperlinks: …
iClicker Cloud Student Setup
Follow the steps in this guide to setup your iClicker Cloud account before your classes begin.
LinkedIn Learning in Canvas
Linkedin Learning (LiL) offers training courses in 3 broad categories: business, creativity, and technology. There may be times when you'd like your students to watch a LinkedIn course, or a single video within a course, to introduce new concepts or to reinforce your instruction. There are several…
Turning Autoplay off in LinkedIn Learning
By default, LinkedIn Learning auto-plays videos on their platform - even when added to Canvas. It is up to individual users to turn off autoplay in their LinkedIn Learning profile. This resource outlines the steps to take to disable autoplay in LinkedIn Learning.
Canvas Discussions/Announcements Redesign
Starting July 20, 2024, all Canvas users will experience redesigned Announcements and Discussions. This redesign introduces new features and options, such as improved accessibility, the ability to create anonymous discussions, and the ability to view a discussion's edit history. Instructure created…