Our goal is to help you teach effectively with technology and instructional design. In this section, you will find resources for creating your Canvas course, teaching with technology and best practices.
- Getting started with course design
- Assessment Support
- Canvas
- Video Production Services
- Inclusive Teaching
- Teaching Technologies
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Rubrics
A rubric is a tool to aid in marking by setting clear expectations in advance of receiving the work from students. Rubrics go beyond a marking guide by not just listing criteria to be judged, but also by providing clear examples of what each level of achievement looks like.
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Student Engagement
Student engagement is widely recognized as an important influence on achievement and learning. Berkely (2010) describes student engagement as “the product of motivation and active learning“.
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Classrooms
The UBC Sauder School of Business Point Grey campus has many different classrooms that you may be assigned to teach in based on your subject, class size, and technical requirements. In addition, there are two studios available for online teaching or video creation. This section provides you with details about your classroom that you should…
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Discussions
Discussion Forums Asynchronous Discussion Forums enhance learning as students share their ideas, perspectives, and experiences with the class. Students develop and refine their thoughts through the writing process, and broaden their classmates’ understanding of the course content. Students can participate in a conversation with an entire class or in groups. Discussions can also be created…
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Feedback
Feedback Providing effective and rapid feedback is imperative to student success. This section outlines best practices for communicating constructive feedback to students.
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Preparing to teach
Whether you are new to teaching or are preparing for your upcoming term, here are some resources to help you prepare to teach. Getting Help Your Learning Services team is here to help you with this transition, and to make the most of UBC’s learning technology ecosystem to meet your andragogical needs. If you have…
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Teaching Assistants (TAs)
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Grading
This section describes best practices for grading student work.
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Simulations
Simulations provide an opportunity for active, experiential learning by having students solve problems in the moment. Simulations can occur in the classroom live, or over a set period of time.
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Academic Integrity
Academic Integrity A culture of academic integrity at UBC Sauder is everyone’s responsibility – we all play a part. Here you will find information, resources, and links for faculty to learn more about academic integrity, understand its role, and learn what happens when it is breached. Included are strategies and tools that will help ensure…
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Assessments
Welcome to the Assessments page of the Sauder Teaching Playbook. Assessing learning is an integral part of the teaching and learning process. Learning assessments are used to evaluate students’ knowledge, skills, and abilities, and to provide feedback that can help improve their learning outcomes. Sauder Learning Services offers assistance with a wide range of assessment…
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Exam support
Support Resources Digital exam types Learning Services is eager to support you with digital exams. Canvas Quizzes (note: In Canvas-speak, all exams, tests, and quizzes are “Quizzes”)Students write an exam in Canvas, in person, with instructor invigilation on a scheduled day and time defined by the instructor. If you are looking for remote exam support.…
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Respondus LockDown Browser
LockDown Browser is a web browser that “locks down” what students can do during a quiz in Canvas. When students use LockDown Browser, they will be unable during the quiz to print or copy questions, visit other websites, access other applications, or close the quiz until it is submitted. Quizzes created for use with LockDown…
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Turnitin Plagiarism Framework
What is the Canvas Plagiarism Framework option? Turnitin has worked with Canvas to develop an integration that will allow instructors to enable Turnitin within the Canvas Assignment workflow. This integration allows Turnitin to be enabled for a Canvas assignment, provides a Similarity Report and Spelling and Grammar suggestions and can be accessed via SpeedGrader. All…
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Grading
This section describes best practices for grading student work.
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Midterm and Final Exams
Exams are used as high-stakes summative assessments. There are a number of strategies and tools that are used for exams.
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Send a introduction announcement to your students
You can send a text announcement to introduce yourself to your students or a video announcement Your course must be published and available for students to receive the announcement. 1. Open Announcements In…
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Add Content & Assignments
We recommend adding all your content into modules. Add Content Add Assignments
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Emoji’s – jazz up your Canvas modules
If you have an important item in your Modules that you want to make to stand out for your students, or you just want to add a bit of oomph to the Modules Index…
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Enable your tools in the course navigation
By default, your Canvas course has been enable with certain tools/features. They will appear in the left hand navigation in your course. How do I know what my students can see in the left…
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Canvas Grading
This section describes best practices for grading student work.
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Publish your course
For your course to become visible to students, it must be published. You may also adjust your course dates to make your page visible before / after formal term duration. Publishing your Course 1)…
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Canvas Question Banks
Question Banks are a place to house questions that can be added to quizzes, used to create randomized questions groups and shared across courses. Instead of creating questions from scratch, instructors can quickly re-use…
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Classic Quizzes versus New Quizzes
New Quizzes is a Canvas assessment tool that currently co-exists with its predecessor Classic Quizzes. Instructors have the option of using either type of quiz, and this page will provide clarity on the similarities…
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Canvas Calendar Scheduler (Schedule Meetings with Students)
Canvas Scheduler is the perfect tool to create a block of time for office hours. It allows students (or groups) to sign up for appointment times in their own calendars. Add Event In Global Navigation…
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Canvas Tips and Tricks
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Course Level Notification Settings
Users can manage notifications for a single course through the Course Notification Settings page, allowing you to decide which kind of notifications you receive, the frequency of notifications etc. The document provides a step-by-step…
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Group Work
Group work is easy to facilitate and assess in Canvas. Additionally, a Canvas setting can be enabled to allow students to create their own study groups as well. Student Collaboration Canvas Peer Review: Canvas…
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Utilize the Canvas Calendar
To keep your students on track, we recommend using the Canvas Calendar. You can do this easily by adding a due date to all your assignments/quizzes. They will automatically appear in the Calendar. What…
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Rubrics
A rubric is a tool to aid in marking by setting clear expectations in advance of receiving the work from students. Rubrics go beyond a marking guide by not just listing criteria to be…
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Add Instructor Info & Syllabus
You can edit your homepage to contain key information. You can also add a syllabus to your course for student viewing. We will show how these can be done. Video Guide Text Guide Homepage…
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Studio Availability
Full-Service Studios are managed by the Learning Services Team. Studio availability is displayed below. (You may need to scroll the calendars to see the full details.) Note! These calendars do not guarantee studio and staff availability. David Lam 013 Click to download an .ics file and add David Lam 013 to your computer Henry Angus…
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Classroom recording
Jump to these tools, or scroll: Learning Services offers several ways to record your classes. Please contact us with your request at help@sauder.ubc.ca. We will get right back to you to collaborate and plan your class. Zoom If you wish to Zoom your classroom activities, the steps below will outline what Learning Services can help…
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Add a link to your Zoom lecture room in your course
(Last Updated August 13th, 2024) or your students to access your Zoom lecture room, we recommend adding a link in your course navigation. You can do this two ways: 1. Enable the Zoom tool and set up your meeting in Canvas NOTE: if you have already set up your ZOOM meeting prior to the integration,…
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Recording Videos
You may wish to record videos to incorporate into your course. Videos could be created for weekly announcements, prep work, pre-recorded lectures, live lectures (i.e. Zoom recordings), guest presentations, homework explanations, student feedback, office hours, etc.
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Academic Media Support
Sauder Academic Media Support is here to assist you with any and all of your academic media needs. We are equipped and staffed with experts to assist you in various ways, including but not limited to: handling your requests for live or recorded teaching in our Lightboard, Loft, or Greenscreen studios; helping you teach in…
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Home recording
Video Recording Tools You may wish to record videos outside of Sauder to incorporate into your course. This is a great idea to help keep students informed about weekly course updates, prep work, pre-recorded lessons, live lectures (i.e. Zoom recordings), guest presentations, homework explanations, student feedback, and office hours, etc. Learning Services support several options…
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Learning Labs
The UBC Sauder Learning Labs are a-typically arranged classrooms that foster collaboration, critical thinking, analytical decision making, and effective communication. Large tables enable group work and lively discussion. The walls are covered in back-lit whiteboards, which serve as large canvases for writing down ideas and mind maps. Large screens enable students to view media, as…
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Sauder Studios
Jump ahead to these tools, or scroll down: UBC Sauder has professionally equipped studios run by knowledgeable team members. Asynchronous (recorded) Presentations Our studios are equipped with cutting-edge technology for you to record asynchronous teaching videos using: All rooms have the ability to connect your laptop to display slides or programs that you may be…
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Student Presentations
(Group/Individual) Asking students to present their work to the class is a very effective, and often times authentic, way to assess students. Presentations can be conducted synchronously in class, asynchronously in the form of an assignment, or a combination (i.e. recorded presentation, synchronous question and answer period). In addition, presentations can be conducted offline or…
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Studios
Booking Studio Time To Make a Request: When you are ready to book, email “help@sauder.ubc.ca” with a summary of your request in the subject line.
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Video assessments
Sauder Learning Services can help arrange and record any video-based assessments. In particular, we can help with debates (in the style of COMM 292) and student presentations (in the style of COMM 196). COMM Debates You will be greeted by a staff member or student staff to help assist you with your debate’s recordings. There…
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Panopto
Panopto is our preferred video management platform for recording, organizing, embedding, and live streaming course content, lectures, presentations, and recorded synchronous sessions. Once filmed, Panopto-hosted videos can be embedded in Canvas courses.
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iPeer
iPeer is a peer review platform which lets students evaluate thei
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Respondus LockDown Browser
LockDown Browser is a web browser that “locks down” what students can do during a quiz in Canvas. When students use LockDown Browser, they will be unable during the quiz to print or copy questions, visit other websites, access other applications, or close the quiz until it is submitted. Quizzes created for use with LockDown…
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Canvas
Canvas is UBC’s primary learning platform for delivering online course content with everything in one place for equitable student access. It is robust, versatile, and can be customized to varying degrees by instructors. It helps deliver dynamic, engaging learning experiences for every student, everywhere, every day, from any device and is cloud-based, meaning no downtime…
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Turnitin Plagiarism Framework
What is the Canvas Plagiarism Framework option? Turnitin has worked with Canvas to develop an integration that will allow instructors to enable Turnitin within the Canvas Assignment workflow. This integration allows Turnitin to be enabled for a Canvas assignment, provides a Similarity Report and Spelling and Grammar suggestions and can be accessed via SpeedGrader. All…
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Panopto
Panopto is our preferred video management platform for recording, organizing, embedding, and live streaming course content, lectures, presentations, and recorded synchronous sessions. Once filmed, Panopto-hosted videos can be embedded in Canvas courses.
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iClicker Cloud
iClicker Cloud is an online student response system that allows instructors to collect and grade responses to in-class questions that students answer individually using their own computer or mobile device. They receive the responses instantly, and can use these results to inform their teaching and/or share them with the class. Through the Canvas integration, iClicker…