Sauder Teaching Playbook

Category: Canvas

  • Send a introduction announcement to your students

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    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 Course Navigation, click the Announcements link. 2. Add Announcement Click the + Announcement button 3. Edit Announcement Title and Text [1] Type a title for…

  • Add Content & Assignments

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    We recommend adding all your content into modules. Add Content Add Assignments

  • Emoji’s – jazz up your Canvas modules

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    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 Page, consider adding emojis to the item’s title: It’s an easy copy-paste edit! Below are some emoji examples available at https://emojipedia.org:

  • Enable your tools in the course navigation

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    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 hand navigation? You can tell what item are available for students if they do not have an eye icon beside them.…

  • Canvas Grading

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    This section describes best practices for grading student work.

  • Publish your course

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    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) Click “Home” from your Canvas course 2) Click “Publish” on the top right (note: even when published, your course won’t be…

  • Canvas Question Banks

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    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 or modify existing questions from their banks.

  • Classic Quizzes versus New Quizzes

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    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 and differences.

  • Canvas Calendar Scheduler (Schedule Meetings with Students)

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    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 (Canvas left-hand side menu) click Calendar. Then, either click the date on which you want to schedule your office hours or click…

  • Canvas Tips and Tricks

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  • Course Level Notification Settings

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    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 guide to updating course level notification settings. This is particularly useful if you are teaching multiple courses and want different notification…

  • Group Work

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    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 peer review option allows students to review one or more assignment submissions by other students. Students share their feedback to other…

  • Utilize the Canvas Calendar

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    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 is the Calendar? The Calendar is used for reminding students of graded Assignments with specific due dates. The Calendar automatically syncs…

  • Rubrics

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    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.

  • Add Instructor Info & Syllabus

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    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 Instructor Info Add Syllabus (Last updated July 31st, 2024) Click on a link below to download the appropriate syllabus template to…

  • Embedded Formula Sheet and LaTeX Guide

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    Online Exams – Embedded Formula Sheet and LaTeX Guide Want to embed a formula sheet displayed similar to the one below in your exam? Follow this quick guide. Exercises National Income Formula: \(Y = C + I + G + (X-M)\) Discounting: \(PV = FV(1+r)^{-n}\) Compounding: \(FV = PV(1+r)^n\) Bond Evaluation: \[P = I\left[\frac{1-(1+r)^{-n}}{r}\right] +…

  • Adjust your Grade Posting Policy

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    Hide your grades for entire grade centre (Do this prior to entering any grades) If you do not want the grades you enter to be immediately visible to students, we recommend changing your course’s grade posting policy to Manually Post Grades. You can change the grade posting policy for your course by following these steps: * Note…

  • Student Presentations

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    (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…

  • Canvas

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    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…

  • Grading

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    This section describes best practices for grading student work.

  • New Analytics

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    New Analytics provides a rich analytics experience to monitor course grades, online class activity, and individual student activity. Page views and participation metrics include aggregated data across all student devices and course apps. For a complete guide to New Analytics, you can visit resources available from Canvas. These will be the most up to date.…

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