Author: Karen Turpin
Canvas: Where can you go? How can you get there? (Zoom recording, 54 min.) Chat Transcript (txt) 8/10/18 In person workshop by Sean Davis and Jim Julius with simulcast online via Zoom
Updated Tools & Features to Try in Canvas
Behind the scenes, Canvas is updated regularly. Check out some of the updated tools and features available in MiraCosta College’s Canvas. (Note: The list below is intended to highlight the most significant changes – but many smaller updates occur frequently).
Summer 2018
- New Gradebook – The New Gradebook is a beta feature that allows instructors to view an improved version of the Gradebook. This feature makes grading more flexible and intuitive. As of early fall 2018, each instructor interested in this must opt in; within the next 6 months this is likely to become the default Gradebook.
- Quizzes.Next – Canvas’s new quiz/test assessment engine. Quizzes.Next will replace the original Quiz function in the near future (late fall 2018 or spring 2019, most likely). Quizzes.Next assessments are a particular type of Assignment rather than a distinct tool.
- Turnitin LTI 2.0 Canvas Plagiarism Framework – An update to Turnitin available within Canvas that offers a tighter integration between a Canvas assignment and Turnitin, relying on Turnitin for plagiarism checking but using the native Canvas tools such as rubrics and speedgrader for assessment and feedback.
- UDOIT – The Universal Design Online Content Inspection Tool, or UDOIT (“You Do It”) enables faculty to identify and correct many accessibility issues in their MiraCosta Canvas courses.
- Dashboard List View – Students and instructors may change the Dashboard view to a list format with to-dos, feedback, and other activity organized by courses. Instructors can now set Pages and non-graded Discussions as to-do items. Students and instructors also may add their own personal to-dos to Canvas.
What is on the Horizon with Canvas?
Countdown to Canvas: 3 weeks to go
Canvas is now MiraCosta’s sole course management system!
Blackboard and Moodle access links have been removed from http://miracosta.edu/online to eliminate any confusion for our summer students.
Faculty who are continuing to access old courses in Blackboard and Moodle may do so until June 30 via:
- Blackboard: https://blackboard.miracosta.edu/
- Moodle: http://miracosta.mrooms.net/
If you need to catch up on details about extracting course content and data from the older systems, please see my previous Countdown to Canvas message.
Happy Summer!
Jim Julius, Ed.D.
Faculty Director, Online Education
Download Moodle Gradebook and Backup a Moodle Course
MiraCosta faculty and student access to Moodle ends on June 30, 2018. For overall details and advice on the final transition to Canvas, please see Considerations in Leaving Blackboard and Moodle.
This page demonstrates how to download the Moodle gradebook and an entire course in case they are needed after your access to Moodle ends. You may also view similar directions for Blackboard.
Download Moodle Gradebook
It is advised that faculty export their course gradebooks on Moodle so that they are available to refer to if necessary for grade challenges. (See AP 4231 (Grade Changes) for details on circumstances you may want to consider.)
Here is a short tutorial on how to export your grades from Moodle to an Excel spreadsheet.
https://youtu.be/TTOEL6n5R1o
To ensure student privacy, keep gradebook files in a secure location such as your H: (Home Drive). AIS can assist you with the location of the H: drive for secure, backed-up campus data storage.
Individual assignments can be downloaded if you want to keep student work. Contact Moodle Support for assistance with downloading individual assignments. Specific directions will be based on the tool you used.
Moodle Support # 1-844-336-1439
Download Moodle Course Archive
Faculty can download an entire course from Moodle as a backup with user data. A faculty member can import the archive file to another Moodle system or Canvas; however, it will only contain course materials and content without student data. For more information on importing a Moodle course to Canvas, please see the migration guide from Canvas.
MiraCosta Online Ed is archiving all Moodle courses and storing them on AIS secure servers. We will work with the faculty case by case if the archive needs to be restored in the future for legal purposes.
https://youtu.be/G8Q8QAV7oxY