These are the slides from the OSU Innovate Conference session, "Canvas Adoption Panel" where my colleagues and I spoke about our use of the Canvas LMS during the OSU pilot evaluation phase. My portion begins on Slide 26.
2. Mary Lightbody
Faculty, Newark campus,
College of Education and Human Ecology,
Department of Teaching and Learning
Carmen Canvas Courses:
Education T&L 5129 and 5275; Early and Middle
Childhood Science Methods
26. Amanda Postle
Program/Course Coordinator, College of Medicine
Carmen Canvas Course Supported:
Medicine 2000.21 Introduction to Medicine, a
blended course with in-class lectures and online
assignments
30. Byron Roush
Dir. Educational Technology, College of Social Work
Carmen Canvas Courses Supported:
Methods for Intervention/Translational Research, a
doctoral level course using flipped pedagogy.
Honors Courses: Evidence and evaluation and
thesis seminar
Writing for Agency Practice, an online
grad/undergrad course with many written
assignments
31. Calendar: View Course Deadlines
Calendar
1. Choose which courses are listed
2. Switch between views
3. Integrates with BuckeyeMail or Outlook
32. Calendar: View Course Deadlines
Calendar
1. Choose which courses are listed
2. Switch between views
3. Integrates with BuckeyeMail or Outlook
33. Calendar: View Course Deadlines
Calendar
1. Choose which courses are listed
2. Switch between views
3. Integrates with BuckeyeMail or Outlook
36. Tracey Stuckey-Mickell
Senior Lecturer, College of Education and Human
Ecology, Department of Educational Studies
Carmen Canvas Course:
ESQREM 6625 – Intro to Educational Research, an
online research course
54. Modules: Integrate Pieces of Courses
Organize
1. Course material
2. Due Dates and
Assignments
3. Easy to re-arrange
Shared by Sarah Siff,
PhD Candidate in
History.
History 2002
Publish to allow students access
Built of assignments, discussion boards, links to files, quizzes/tests, Internet sites
Create a “page” to allow students to navigate the course site easily
Pages are like Word documents
Intuitive to create
Contain whatever content you want to share
Use to provide the links to course content and assignments and activities
View of the editing screen
Editing tools along top of text box
Tabs in right column for links to course content, to files, or to images
(Upload documents and images to course library first)
Highly popular with students and faculty
Rubrics- text, audio, or video; speech to text converter
On screen comments with point, area, or text
Highlight, draw, format text in comments, strikeout
Grades posted to gradebook automatically
Students access online and on mobile devices
Easy to write
Appear in list on course
Go out as Notification according to student settings
Can include content and links
The Assignments feature is like the equivalent of the “dropbox” in the old D2L Carmen; It’s how you build your gradebook, so it is super important! Also, dated items go into the calendar as well.
I love that you can insert just about anything from the course materials into assignment descriptions.
I also love that you can designate the type of submissions you want students to provide (just click the dropbox) AND you can restrict to certain file types. Last, I love that you can require peer reviews and the system will assign students a number of submissions to review (you set the number)—this worked pretty well in my class!
Canvas’ student group pages are another favorite feature – it adds a tab for each group set you create.
I love how easy it is to add students to groups—you can have the system randomly assign students or you can manually do it—you can drag and drop students to the different groups.
I love that the system automatically assigns a group member to be the group leader (you can change this later, if necessary!). The leader is responsible for setting up the Group’s Homepage….
The group homepage is almost like a mini- course space that has everything needed for online collaboration—even announcements and a self-contained group discussion area…
The instructor can add discussion topics and assign them to the groups. This interface shows up in each group, but each group’s discussion forum is also accessible in the general Discussion area, but only for instructors and the members of each group.
This is my ALL TIME FAVORITE feature… video and audio commenting!
Anywhere you see this text box in Canvas, you can add a video or audio comment—announcements, assignments, discussion forum areas AND posts and replies. You can also add video/audio commenting when giving feedback in SpeedGrader. What a time saver! Especially if you teach fully online like I do!
Click that little filmstrip and you get the same interface no matter where you are…
Here is the interface! You can click the mic to make it audio only (for those bad hair days!) and you can also upload a video file, if desired.
1. Lots of pre-planning before building! See the mind map???
2. Some content must be created first before you can create the organizational structure in the course shell.
3. Be prepared for a lot more freedom to place things how you want to—this can be a good thing, but can also be dangerous!
4. Limit student navigation—give them only what they need to avoid confusion.
I loved using the modules as a way to organize the course material. My course had eight of them. Each one contained textbook readings and quizzes, one film to watch (with quiz), several primary-source readings and a graded discussion. I was surprised and very pleased by how well the students prepared for discussion. I now believe high expectations for discussion, with fewer required posts, result in much better online interactions. Having a required discussion weekly is too often, but eight over the course of the semester seemed just right. Using modules helped me figure this out.