Visit the Canvas Release Notes/Upcoming Changes page within the Canvas Community. This page is updated by Instructure and is the central location for communicating all Canvas’s significant upcoming changes. Check the Canvas System Status Updates for real time updates about existing features within Canvas.
WeVideo (formerly PlayPosit) is an interactive video learning tool that is fully integrated with MiraCosta College’s Canvas. WeVideo allows instructors to create activities using videos from Canvas Studio, 3C Media, YouTube, Vimeo, or other video sources. WeVideo now includes access for instructors to the WeVideo’s Multimedia tool to create instructional videos, podcasts or set up assignments for learners to demonstrate learning through media.
3. Enter the information for the assignment, change the submission type to External Tool, and click Find.
4. Select the WeVideo (formerly PlayPosit) Interactivity tool from the list.
5. Click the Set Link button on the gray screen.
6. Click on the Canvas icon in front of the desired interactive video or playlist and click Link to assign it.
7. Select the learner experience to be Self Paced or Live Broadcast, then click Set Link.
8. Click Select to complete the process.
Adjust the grading and due date for the assignment in Canvas. Please note that if you would like to have the grades synced, the points for the assignment in Canvas must be greater than 0.
After the content is linked, you will see the following window when launching the assignment as an instructor. There will be three options:
Click the Monitor button on the gray window to launch the monitor page.
On the monitor page, you can see learners’ names, responses to each question, and their grades.
If you need to update learners’ grades or provide points to manually graded questions, click the response and assign points to it.
After grading, please ensure that you click the Sync Grades button at the top to sync the most updated grades to the Canvas grade book.
For additional information refer to the WeVideo – ‘How do I assign Interactivity content to Canvas?’ guide
WeVideo has support services for your questions or problems.
This site explains the difference between the Canvas student view tool and MiraCosta College’s sample student account.
You can view a course the same way that your students view your course without logging out of your instructor account. Enabling Student View creates a ‘Test Student’ in your course. You can activate Student View in your Course Settings.
View Canvas Student View Guide
To see the student’s perspective on Canvas, use Student View to view the course, post and reply to discussions, submit assignments, view grades, view people, view pages, view the syllabus, view quizzes, view the calendar, and view the scheduler.
Attendance, conferences, conversations, collaborations, differentiated assignments, groups, LTI tools such as Pronto and Turnitin, peer reviews, and profiles do not work for the Test Student. Also, you will see only what you, as the instructor, allow your students to see.
At MiraCosta College all faculty have a separate sample student user added to their Canvas course. This is a separate account from your primary MCC faculty login account. The sample student account needs to be reset two times a year at the same time your employee password is reset.
With the sample student account all course content and tools that you have enabled for your students will work. This includes taking attendance, conferences, conversations, collaborations, differentiated assignments, groups, Pronto, LTI tools, Turnitin assignments, and peer reviews.
Reminder: You must publish your course and you must publish the course content or tool within Canvas before you can access it with your sample student account. Your sample student account has the same course permissions as your enrolled SURF students.
Add -student to the end of your MCC faculty login account. This will be your sample student account.
Example Log On: kturpin-student
Password: Contact the ITS Help Desk at (760) 795-6850 for a password for first time users.
Substitute kturpin for your MCC faculty login and add -student
MiraCosta College has an unlimited license to Turnitin, GradeMark, and Peer Review, and Turnitin is available within Canvas. No separate login or password is required for faculty or students. You have two options for how to use Turnitin with Canvas.
The primary difference between the two is that the Turnitin LTI 1.3 integration is best used if faculty prefer to use Turnitin for grading and feedback; the Turnitin Plagiarism Framework is preferred by faculty who want Turnitin for plagiarism prevention but like to use the Canvas grading and feedback tools.
Turnitin is an LTI tool that is globally installed on our Canvas system. LTI tools are not native to Canvas so they will not work in the internal Canvas Student View. You must log off of Canvas, as an instructor, then log on with your MCC Sample Student account. Now you will be able to experience a Turnitin assignment within your Canvas course as a student.
Turnitin Plagiarism Framework is available within Canvas and offers a tighter integration between a Canvas assignment and Turnitin than the Turnitin 1.3 LTI Canvas integration. No separate login or password is required for faculty or students.
The primary difference between the two tools is that the Turnitin LTI 1.3 integration is best used if faculty prefer to use Turnitin for grading and feedback; the Turnitin Plagiarism Framework is preferred by faculty who want Turnitin for plagiarism prevention but like to use the Canvas grading and feedback tools.
MiraCosta College has an unlimited license to Turnitin, GradeMark, and Peer Review.
Turnitin is an LTI tool that is globally installed on our Canvas system. LTI tools are not native to Canvas so they will not work in the internal Canvas Student View. You must log off of Canvas, as an instructor, then log on with your MCC Sample Student account. Now you will be able to experience a Turnitin assignment within your Canvas course as a student.
