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: This is it!
One last reminder: on June 30, MiraCosta faculty access to Blackboard and Moodle will end as our licenses to those systems expire.
If you have not yet extracted previous course content that you may need in the future, please do so ASAP!
If you aren’t sure what you need to do, please read my prior messages with more details.
Jim Julius, Ed.D.
Faculty Director, Online Education
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