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Creating Groups in Your Course
Updated onArticleCanvas Groups are created and managed through the People Tool. Instructors / TAs / Guest Instructors can create Group Sets by going to the People tool and clicking on the Groups tab. Group Sets house the different groups within a course. Once you have created a group set, you can create groups and either manually or automatically enroll students into those groups.
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Understanding the Groups Page
Updated onArticleThe Groups page in your Canvas course is comprised of many different components. This article will go over each element of the page provide additional information and context to ensure you feel comfortable navigating and using the Groups functionality.
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Implementing Peer Review Assessments
Updated onArticleAlthough the term "peer assessments" can be abstract, the overarching sense in which researchers and educators use this term suggests a two-way, reciprocal learning activity which is mutually beneficial and involves the sharing of knowledge, ideas, and experience between participants (Boud, Cohen, & Sampson, 2014). By allowing the students to use peer assessment, there are increased possibilities for students to engage in reflection and collaboratively explore ideas (Boud, Cohen, & Sampson, 1999). In addition to these motives, researchers have also argued that peer learning and peer assessments may suit some students (i.e. women and minorities) more than the common individualized teaching and learning practices found in the traditional lecture or seminar course (Boud, Cohen, & Sampson, 1999; Chalmers & Volet, 1997; Slavin, 1995).
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Strategies for Delivering Exams / Quizzes in Canvas
Updated onArticleWithin Canvas @ Yale, the use of the Canvas Quiz tool can be effective for exams and quizzes. Canvas provides a plethora of features that provide the instructor the ability to emulate certain limitations and exam design that students would have if they took the exam in class.
This document is designed to assist instructors in thinking about different tips and functions available in Canvas Quizzes, and how they can use them within their course to deliver summative assessments.
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Creating a Discussion Board
Updated onArticleThe "Discussion" tool allows you to create a discussion board in which students can see and respond their peers' responses to a topic. Discussion boards can be configured in multiple ways to facilitate many different types and styles of discussion.
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Implementing Online Discussions
Updated onArticleContemporary discussions of education increasingly emphasize the social nature of learning (Palincsar and Herrenkohl 2002), which focuses on interactions or discussions among students, or among students and instructors. A discussion provides a means for students to exchange opinions, share multiple perspectives, and clarify various thoughts (Dunlap, 2005). Some scholars have identified student discussion as being one of the activities that students find most beneficial to their learning (Ertmer et al 2007; Richardson and Swan 2003).
Effective online discussion questions promote the course purpose while demonstrating achievement of learning objectives (Caulfield, 2011). Questions that concentrate on concepts, principles and skill development, can maintain student interest and create a sense of community in the course (Berge, 2008). Effective online discussion questions ideally are content based, open ended, and designed to reveal student understanding as they provoke critical analysis (Baker, 2011). For example, critical analytical skills may be honed through student scrutiny and critique of demonstrations (Lynam, 2009) and posted case studies. Observation reveals that engaging questions permit discussants to weave in their own experiences. This often transitions discussions into “communities of practice” where knowledge among discussants is shared and enlarged (Rau, 2009).
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Tips on Importing Course Content
Updated onArticleWhen copying content from one canvas course to another, there are some settings you may have to modify or specific choices that could save you time when prepping your course for the next term. The purpose of this article is to provide you with tips about each step, with the tutorials being linked to other help articles.
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Adding Images and Alt-Text in Poll Everywhere
Updated onArticlePoll Everywhere supports adding images to poll questions and responses. With inserting images, it is best practice to include image descriptions (Alt-Text) to support participants who require the use of screen readers so that they receive additional information describing the images embedded into the question and/or choices.
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Poll Everywhere (Vendor Guides)
Updated onArticlePoll Everywhere provides a large number of resources on their support page, including tutorial documentation and videos.
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Exporting Poll Results to Canvas Gradebook
Updated onArticleInstructors using Poll Everywhere can export poll results back to the Canvas Gradebook to be used as assignments and participation grades.
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