Adjust-All is a simple Canvas tool that enables you to change all course item due dates and announcement publication dates in one place, rather than having to access each item individually.
The first time you use Adjust-All, you’ll need to click the blue Authorize button – it’s fine 😊
This tool is only available to faculty – students won’t see it in your course menu.
There are a few other things you can do with Adjust-All. Click the gear icon at top right to see options for bulk adjustments to dates or publishing status.
ADAPT is a free and open online homework system from LibreTexts. Think of it as your all-in-one hub for creating engaging assessments. ADAPT solves a common open educational resource (OER) challenge by bringing different homework technologies (like H5P, WeBWorK, and iMathAS) under one roof. This gives you the freedom to mix and match from a vast library of existing questions to create engaging assignments for your students, without getting bogged down by technology.
Key Features
Large, customizable question library
Question types (can include interactives, simulations, 3D models, code):
Canvas-like questions: multiple-choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, essays, matching, drop downs, categorization, ordering, hot spots
Highlight table or text
Drag and drop
Sketcher (molecular structure building)
Discuss-it (discussion board with audio, video, and/or text inputs)
Learning trees (students start with a “root” problem and are offered branching pathways based on how they do)
View data on students engagement and performance to adjust teaching
Explore this sample ADAPT assignment to see some of the questions that can be built. You can view this video from LibreTexts (8:58 – 14:50) alongside the sample assignment to get detailed explanations of each question type.
How to Get Started with ADAPT
Step 1: Get Instructor Account
Register for a LibreOne Account (this gives you access to all of LibreTexts’ applications).
Step 2: Create Your First Course
Once you log in and click into ADAPT, your dashboard will be empty. Here is how you can create a course:
Click “New Course”.
Fill in Course Details.
Check “Yes” for LMS.
Click “Save”.
Step 3: Build an Assignment
Click into the course that was just created.
Click “New Assignment”.
Set assignment properties.
Click “Save”.
Add Questions from Existing ADAPT Library
Click on the assignment that you’d like to add questions to.
Click “Add Questions”.
Choose a question source
“Search Questions” lets you filter questions by several different properties.
“My Questions” takes you to a library of questions that you have adapted or created.
“My Favorites” shows you questions that you have favorited.
“My Courses” allows you to select questions from other courses that you have created.
“Commons” contains questions for courses that have been curated by the ADAPT/LibreTexts team. They could be courses matching a specific textbook or ones geared towards a course/topic.
“All Public Courses” shows you questions created and made publicly available by other ADAPT users.
Browse questions available to you. Clicking on a question will allow you to preview it in a pop-up window. Click the “+” icon to add them to your assignment. Clicking the heart icon will allow you to add questions to a Favorites folder to be used at a later time.
Create Own Questions
Click on the assignment that you’d like to add questions to.
Click “New Question”.
Fill in “Question Properties”
When selecting a License, an open one is preferable so others can benefit from your work!
Fill in “Primary Content”
Use “HTML Block” if the question you are creating is purely text-based.
If you would like to import H5P, WeBWorK, or iMathAS content that you have, go to the “Auto-Grade Tech Block” and “Existing” to make a selection.
To build a question using ADAPT’s templates, go to “Auto-Grade Tech Block” and next to “New” select “Native”.
Next to “Native Question Type” select “All” to see all the types of questions you can build. When you select a question type, the blue box below will explain what kind of interaction students will experience and how to format your question.
Click “Save”.
Step 4: Share with Students in Your MCC Canvas Course
In Canvas, create a new assignment that you would like to use ADAPT for.
Next to “Submission Type,” select “External Tool” and then select “ADAPT”.
Once to click “Save”, you will be directed to select the ADAPT course and assignment that you would like to link to the Canvas assignment. Click “Link Assignment” once you’ve made your selections.
Alternatively, you can go to your ADAPT course and link it to a Canvas course. Doing this will automatically populate the Canvas course with all the assignments you’ve created in the linked ADAPT course.
Step 5: Grade an Assignment
By default, ADAPT courses are set for students to access and use them from within the LibreTexts website rather than from within Canvas. So, the course properties must be set to enable the ADAPT course to interact with Canvas Grades.
Make sure your ADAPT course is set to interact with your Canvas gradebook.
Click on the course properties icon next to the course.
Check the box for “Yes” next to “LMS”. Click “Save”.
Click the checkmark icon next to the assignment you would like to grade and this will take you to ADAPT’s grader.
The grader will allow you to view and grade both open-ended and automatically graded submissions.
MiraCosta’s Canvas system may be accessed at miracosta.instructure.com – faculty and students log in with their SURF username and password. You’ll also find a link to log into Canvas at the top right hand side of the campus website www.miracosta.edu. See below for many great resources to help you learn to use Canvas, and earn MiraCosta Flex credit along the way.
What does a Canvas class look like? Well, there are a number of approaches to designing a class in Canvas. Check out some short videos by MiraCosta faculty. And then go behind the scenes – in Canvas – to learn more!
Canvas Student Orientation – this open Canvas course can also be a good way for faculty to introduce themselves to Canvas from the student perspective. Faculty are also welcome to link directly to this resource within their own Canvas classes to help their students learn key features of Canvas.
Flex Credit is available for time spent engaging with any of the above resources. This is a pre-approved activity (in the Other Activities category Conferences and Presentations).
And often starting with a Google search is the quickest path to finding something really useful!
Again, Flex Credit is available for time spent engaging with any of the above resources.
Canvas Faculty and Student Support
MiraCosta’s Online Education department provides support for faculty using Canvas, and MiraCosta’s ITS Help Desk provides support for students in Canvas classes.
When local support is unavailable, including evenings and weekends, Canvas provides technical support for faculty and students at the following phone numbers.
Faculty: 1-833-345-2890 Students: 1-877-884-1673
Canvas has excellent “Getting Started” guides for faculty and for students. See above for more faculty training resources.
Faculty and students can also create a helpdesk ticket for support from within Canvas by clicking on the Tech Help icon and then selecting Report a Problem.
Many other LTI tools (“Apps”) are available – some have been made available institutionally and you can see those in the Navigation tab of Course Settings; others can be enabled by faculty individually; you can see those in the Apps tab of Course Settings. See the Canvas Guide on the App Center to learn more.
Workarounds
Canvas does not have a dedicated journaling tool. It is possible to use Canvas tools to provide students with a place to submit their writings or reflections at various points throughout the semester. This is done by creating a series of assignments within the same assignment group.
MiraCosta College took on a comprehensive Course Management System evaluation in spring 2016 that led to the selection of Canvas. The college then transitioned away from Blackboard and Moodle and to Canvas during 2016-17 and 2017-18. Starting in summer 2018, Canvas is the sole supported course management system for MiraCosta classes.
One of MiraCosta’s early Canvas adopters, music professor Christy Coobatis, says this about using Canvas in spring 2017:
Has been an extremely successful semester because of it!
Both students and I loved the program.
I have more and clearer communication than ever before!
Another, Adult High School professor Julie Cord, says:
I am in LOVE with Canvas and I truly feel it has helped support my students and my teaching already in very substantial ways.
Should I make my Canvas course Public, Institution, or keep as the default Course? This guide explains the several options for privacy and visibility of courses.
By default the People tool will display all users enrolled in your Canvas course. You can filter the users by role to obtain the count of users in that role as well as Last Activity and Total Activity.
From within a Canvas Course:
Click on People
Click on All Roles
Select the specific role. The count will be displayed to the right of the role name.
