 Weekly Tip Series

This week’s Weekly Canvas Tip will cover some important techniques to consider when doing your end-of-semester grading in Canvas (note that some of these same tips will apply when setting up your grading system at the beginning of the semester).

This article addresses using the Course Import tool to duplicate material from previous course sites.

This article covers the use of Microsoft OneDrive, an online file storage service at Ithaca College comparable to Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive, that allows you to upload, backup, create, view, edit, and share files. All Ithaca College faculty, students, and staff have access to 1 TB of storage in their Microsoft OneDrive account.

This Weekly Canvas Tip addresses making your Canvas course more accessible. We will cover the use of headings for accessibility, the use of the rich text editor's Accessibility Checker tool and direct you to further resources for making your course accessible.

This Weekly Canvas Tip provides instructions for setting up and grading a Complete/Incomplete and a Letter Grade assignment in Canvas.

This Weekly Tip covers some basic questions about using Sections in Canvas, including what a Section is and how you can assign work or a teaching aide to a specific section.

This covers some of the features offered in Kaltura and Canvas Studio and directs to resources on the video quiz setup process, as well as how to link a video quiz to an assignment to create graded video quizzes that update to the Gradebook.

This article will cover how to delay an announcement to a future date in Canvas - this is also a good method for drafting announcements.

This article will go over the basics of adding an external YouTube video in Canvas in such a way that removes ads and allows you to edit the video like any of your course media.

This Weekly Tip will cover how to change student access to your course as necessary, before or after the semester.

This Weekly Canvas tip will offer some tips on calculating final grades and making them visible to your students.

If you intend to reuse some, or all, of the content from a previous semester in your new semester course shell, this Weekly Tip can provide you with some helpful tips to save time and effort.

This week's tip goes over helping students submit high-quality audio or video files without the usual file compression that Canvas applies using the OneDrive LTI in integration.

This article comprises previously posted Canvas Weekly Tips that include some common workflows and settings to adjust to get your course up and running efficiently.

This Weekly Tip is about the use of Canvas Calendar's simple but powerful drag and drop feature to quickly reorder course lessons and items.