Join COLRS staff to discuss Canvas tools to enhance assessment. We will discuss Canvas Outcomes, Rubrics, and the 杨贵妃传媒 Mastery view of the gradebook.
If you attended the assessment series presented by Carrie Allen, the UIS Director of Institutional Effectiveness, these tools can help you to collect data on your course or program. Carrie Allen will join us to answer questions and share how her office can assist you in this process.
For students in online courses, Canvas course sites are their experience of our university. An organized and consistent layout that specifically directs student attention scaffolds success. A carefully designed course homepage is a great first step in guiding your students through the materials and experiences you've designed in your course.
Just before our winter break, we shared with you some information about adding a homepage to your Canvas courses. However, if that information got lost in the commotion of finals week and the winter break, or if you鈥檙e thinking of ways to employ 鈥減lus-one鈥� thinking into your courses this term, then utilizing DesignPLUS for your course homepage is a great place to start!
Synchronous e杨贵妃传媒 is learning that takes place online in real-time and enables students and instructors to ask and answer questions immediately. Tools like online text chat or videoconferencing are considered synchronous learning.
Zoom is a robust web conferencing platform integrated with Canvas at UIS. Faculty can schedule and start Zoom meetings from within Canvas. Students can easily join Zoom meetings and access cloud recordings through the Zoom menu in Canvas courses.
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The "Plus One" strategy revolves around consistently adding one new element, feature, or improvement to your course to continually enhance its quality. Here's how to apply this approach effectively:
Kaltura Media is the video management solution at UIS. Kaltura is accessed through the My Media link in Canvas courses. Faculty and students may upload videos created on devices (camcorders, phones, etc.) or record webcam or screen capture videos through Kaltura.
Join COLRS staff to work on your course home page or syllabus using the CidiLabs Design Plus tool.
Join COLRS to learn about how course design can impact student learning. We'll cover some research findings, CidiLabs Design Plus, and how to customize our UIS syllabus template.
