Center for Teaching and Learning

We’re pleased to announce the release of the Winter 2019 Professional Development Brochure.

New this semester:

Canvas Groups

Increase engagement in your course by assigning students to
Canvas Groups to collaborate on assignments, presentations
and projects. Within Canvas Groups, students may share files,
message their group, and create announcements, pages,
discussions, conferences and collaborations.
In this workshop you will:

• Set up Groups
• Create a Group Assignment
• Visit a Group
• Grade a Group Assignment

Collaborating in Canvas

Collaboration among students and faculty is possible in Canvas using either Google Drive or the Office 365 OneDrive. This allows students to simultaneously work on the same document with others in the class. A few examples of how this solution might be used are team projects, practice activities and peer reviews.In this workshop you will:

• Create a collaboration in Canvas using Google Drive
• Create collaborations in Canvas using Office 365
• Interact as both a teacher and student using each interface
• Reflect on the benefits / challenges of using collaboration tools

Quizzes

Explore Canvas Quizzes with your colleagues while working asynchronously on replacing your on-ground Scantrons or paper assessments with online quizzes or surveys! In this workshop,you will create online graded and non-graded quizzes and surveys using the Quiz tool. Hidden gems, such as the Moderate This Quiz feature, Quiz Analytics, Question Groups and Question Banks will be covered. As always, course facilitators are available for questions and feedback!

Rubrics

Rubrics can be a great way to communicate and manage
expectations for an assignment and how your students will be
assessed. You may already be using rubrics as a part of your
grading process, but did you know that Canvas has a rubric
feature that can expedite and ease your grading process?
In this workshop you will:

• Design a rubric using measurable criteria
• Identify rubric options and settings
• Create a Canvas rubric
• Grade using your Canvas rubric
• Reflect on designing, creating and grading using rubrics

Please review the Professional Development Brochure and register for workshops in the Noncredit/Continuing Education area of WebAdvisor on MyMacomb. 

Let’s get caught up with some of the recent Canvas updates and take a look at what’s to come. The most recent Canvas production release was March 31 and contains several small updates:

• DocViewer now allows users to comment on annotations, even if they are not the author of the annotation. This is useful for students adding questions to specific comments by instructors.

• DocViewer offers three options for line thickness for Free Draw annotations:

• If you are using TurnItIn, you may edit the language of the Similarity Pledge seen by students, or to adjust when the students see their originality score: immediately, after grading, after the due date, or never:

Please see the New Feature Screencast video below, or the Production Release Notes, for additional information.

The previous Canvas release (March 10) allows students to comment on course Announcements. When editing your Announcement, please check the checkbox if you would like students to be able to comment. Comments are off by default.

More information on the March 10 release can be found in the Production Release Notes and the New Feature Screencast.

As always, please contact the Macomb Center for Teaching and Learning at 586-226-4774 or ctlsupport@macomb.edu if you have any questions about improving learner engagement and interaction in your courses, or if you would like to schedule a one-on-one professional development session on any of a number of topics related to online learning.