Increase Student Response Rates for End-of-Course Evaluations: Using the Response Rate Tracker
Wondering how to increase end-of-course evaluation response rates without compromising student anonymity? Consider giving the entire class extra credit if the response rate reaches a certain percentage, such as 70%. Then challenge your students to reach that goal! Use the Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys (CES) …
Accessibility Tips: Descriptive Document Titles
Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview This tip is all about descriptive document titles: Meaningful titles help students navigate documents with greater spe…
Accessibility Tips: Image Descriptions
Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview This tip describes how to add a meaningful description to images in your Canvas course. Images without descriptions a…
Canvas Grade Distribution
Can students view their grade distribution in a Canvas course? Instructors can allow students to view their grade distribution for assignments by deselecting the Hide grade distribution graphs from students option in their Course settings . Conversely, by selecting that same box, you can hide the grade distributi…
How to use Microsoft Teams to facilitate a virtual course meeting
Please Note: Microsoft Teams meetings do not directly integrate with our Canvas system. As a result, we only recommend using a Microsoft Teams meeting to facilitate a virtual course meeting for your class in the event that both Zoom and Canvas Conferences are unavailable for use. * Install the Microsoft Teams…
How do I hold virtual office hours?
Though we have both Canvas Conferences and Zoom web-conferencing tools available at FSU, we strongly recommend using Zoom for virtual office hours because it is well suited to both of the meeting types in this support article. Facilitating regular, scheduled office hours that all students can join This type of …
How to add a Career Portfolio link to your course navigation menu
We have integrated the FSU Career Portfolio with Canvas, which means that you can now add a Career Portfolio link to your Canvas course navigation menu. Simply follow the directions for enabling a navigation item in the Canvas article How do I manage Course Navigation links? .
How to update modules and other resources imported from Canvas Commons
If you've ever imported modules (like the FSU Emergency Module or the FSU Course Evaluation Module ) into your course site from Canvas Commons, you may want to know how to update them with the latest information. Follow these steps to check for, read about, and import updates available to Canvas Commons resources …
[Old LTI Integration] Instructors: Viewing & Interpreting Turnitin's Originality Reports
Turnitin is makes it easier for instructors to detect plagiarism or other unauthorized aid in students' submitted work. When students submit work to a Turnitin-enabled assignment, their submissions are run through Turnitin's database to determine if any portion of it appears in published works, web sources, or other …
Accessibility Tips: Document Headings
Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview The proper use of heading styles is an easy way to improve the accessibility of course content. Headings help readers …
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