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- Canvas users are able to communicate with their students using both the announcement tool and the email tool.
- Announcements can go out to students as an email notification as well as being placed on the home page of the course.
- Assignments are the building blocks for the Canvas gradebook. We create assignments to make columns in the gradebook.
- We can group assignments to apply rules or weights
- We can create assignments for individual students or groups of students.
- We can also have them do peer-reviews of each others work.
- The discussion forum allows us to have discussions with the entire class or smaller group discussions.
- They provide a great place for students to share and expand their understanding.
- You can upload files to the file area one at a time, or all at once as a zip file and organize them into a folder structure.
- Modules are a system of "containers" in Canvas that allow you to organize your course content, and create dynamic pathways for student learning.
- Pages are a great tool for providing students with structure and what the goals or objectives are for the week or unit.
- We can add external content as well as internal Canvas content to Pages to streamline navigation for students so they can focus on engaging in the course materials.
- The gradebook has all of your graded work including graded quizzes, discussions, and assignments and will calculate a final grade including the letter which can be imported into Duckweb.
- You can control the release of grades and feedback in the gradebook globally or assignment by assignment.
- The gradebook offers a variety of views and filters to enable you to zoom into specific areas or groups of assignments.
- We can create groups for our students to work in for projects, studying, or just staying connected....
- Groups will have their own mini site inside the main Canvas site where they can create announcements, post to discussion boards, and share files.
- The quiz tool enables us to use groups of questions so we can make unique exams for every student.
- We can upload exam questions to question banks from publishers or word documents.
For further assistance, UO Online & Canvas Support is available.
- In-Person: Room 68 PLC
- By phone: (541) 346-1942
- By email: uoonline@uoregon.edu
- Submit a Service Portal Ticket (opens in a new tab). This form can also be accessed in Canvas from the Help button at the bottom of the Global Navigation Menu.