10:04:32 From Jim Julius : http://goo.gl/6JAExL 10:04:49 From Jim Julius : you can just click the link above to open the Google doc for this workshop 10:08:08 From Jim Julius : All sorry I had the mic on my laptop on. Just muted it so hopefully if audio was weird it is better now. 10:08:53 From Nancy Thuleen : Audio was doubled for just a moment, but it’s fine now :) 10:09:17 From Jim Julius : Great… figuring out how best to do this … I think we’re getting there! 10:14:11 From robertperry : will this be archived to so I can go back and refer? 10:14:31 From Jim Julius : Yes, we are recording. and will post the archive. 10:16:42 From robertperry : Thank you. This is a really great system 10:23:12 From robertperry : is canvas smartphone viewable. Blackboard had an app but it’s not very user friendly 10:23:27 From Jim Julius : Yes, Canvas’s app is much better 10:24:02 From Nancy Thuleen : Some advanced formatting on the mobile app gets weird, but it’s certainly still useable and legible, works overall for most things. 10:24:03 From Jim Julius : It is a good idea to be conscious of the fact that many students may spend a lot of their time accessing your course via smartphone 10:24:44 From Jim Julius : Especially if you create your own pages with lots of content/images. 10:25:32 From robertperry : Im new to Canvas and have always used Blackboard. That is a criticism I have as I know students a smartphone reliable now 10:27:52 From Jim Julius : Also, if you access Canvas through a mobile browser rather than through the app, it works much better than accessing Blackboard through a mobile browser. 10:38:38 From Amy Corey : I have many sample speech videos for students to watch for my speech class. what is the best way to organize videos/links to videos? 10:39:20 From Amy Corey : I can post them easily, but not sure how to organize 10:46:42 From Jim Julius : Amy, my thought would be that you would put links to the videos that are to be watched at that same time as part of the learning process on one page together. 10:47:41 From Amy Corey : we go back and forth a lot, so organizing as curry just said will work instead. thanks! :) 10:47:52 From Jim Julius : great! 10:48:06 From Nancy Thuleen : Amy, if they’re videos that are optional to watch at any point, I make one page full of “optional links for further study” and point students to that page often. 10:48:06 From robertperry : is there a way to reorder the tabs on the left? 10:48:46 From Michele Mulholland : Can those following at home get access to that handout? 10:50:07 From Jim Julius : Robert, yes, in the course navigation settings you can reorder by dragging and dropping. (Click Settings at the bottom of the course menu, then go to the Navigation tab) 10:50:22 From Jim Julius : Michele, yes: http://goo.gl/6JAExL 10:51:24 From Michele Mulholland : thank you 10:53:30 From robertperry : thank you Jim 10:57:33 From Amy Corey : is there a tool for blogs available here? 10:59:09 From Jim Julius : Amy, no, Canvas doesn’t have a built-in blogging tool. 10:59:35 From Amy Corey : I have several blog assignments. how should I deal with them? 10:59:37 From Jim Julius : MiraCosta has a WordPress installation so if you want students to be able to blog in WordPress that is possible. 11:00:02 From Jim Julius : If that is of interest, contact Anthony Ginger - aginger@miracosta.edu 11:00:26 From Amy Corey : thanks but ugh! 11:00:37 From Jim Julius : If you wanted to do something within Canvas, one approach that people have taken is to put each student into their own “group” and then have the students use the discussion board within the group basically as a blog. 11:00:41 From Nancy Thuleen : Someone suggested making 1-person group discussion boards as blogs, that seemed a really good workaround. 11:00:53 From Nancy Thuleen : Sorry, overlapped with Jim :) 11:00:59 From Jim Julius : All good :-) 11:01:13 From Amy Corey : thanks you! that could work :) 11:04:11 From robertperry : If I am teaching in class and I give an onsite quiz, is there a way to enter a point value without writing questions? 11:04:26 From robertperry : Thanks, it was just answered 11:04:31 From Jim Julius : Perfect 11:05:00 From Nancy Thuleen : Robert, just make an assignment, enter the point values and choose “on paper” as the submission format, then you can enter the grades just like you did in Blackboard. 11:08:24 From robertperry : Thank you Nancy 11:19:44 From Nancy Thuleen : I did have to clarify for my students that the “what if” entries were not actually putting their own grade in the course! They thought they could change their own official grades at first :D 11:20:24 From Amy Corey : sorry- back to the discussion as blog tool...to create 1person discussion, do I do that under "Assign to" section? then creat a discussion for each individual student? or is there an easier way? 11:21:35 From robertperry : Thats a good one Nancy :) 11:23:21 From Amy Corey : or do students just use the reply function? 11:24:00 From Jim Julius : Amy, check this out - may help: https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/1580/files/3303298/download?wrap=1 11:24:35 From Jim Julius : try that 11:24:52 From Amy Corey : thank you!!! 11:26:16 From Jim Julius : That distinguishes between journals (students only see their own work and don’t comment on others) and blogs (students can reply to other students’ thoughts but each student has their own “blog”) 11:29:06 From Michele Mulholland : Is there a way that the code for tabs and buttons could be shared with us? 11:29:58 From Nancy Thuleen : Michelle, depends how easily you can understand HTML. If you know a little about html codes, then https://miracosta.instructure.com/styleguide has a ton of example codes. 11:30:38 From Nancy Thuleen : Otherwise, try googling for “canvas instructure button” and there will be some tutorials to show you how, if you don’t know enough html to understand the styleguide :) 11:31:40 From Nancy Thuleen : The style guide is definitely not for newbies to html though!! 11:40:06 From Jim Julius : Thanks Nancy. Also there is a really great resource that curry created: https://miracosta.instructure.com/courses/7495 11:40:25 From Jim Julius : It is a much simplified version of style guide with accordions, buttons, and grids - examples and code to copy 11:40:56 From Jim Julius : (sorry for not replying quicker - got distracted) 11:42:22 From Nancy Thuleen : Thanks Jim, that does look a lot simpler! I had found something similar at another college 6-8 months ago, but forgot to bookmark it. Curry’s looks great! 11:44:23 From Jim Julius : Hopefully everyone should be aware of https://tic.miracosta.edu/campus-teaching-technologies/canvas/ - a great starting point when looking for examples, resources, and wisdom from our Canvas superstars ... 11:46:58 From Nancy Thuleen : I put the attendance grade in it’s own 0% group, so it’s there but it doesn’t factor into the grade. 11:47:33 From robertperry : I use it as part of participation. If they aren’t there, they don’t participate. 11:51:12 From Nancy Thuleen : They suggest leaving it at 100, yes, because it’s a percent. 11:51:36 From Jim Julius : Thanks Nancy! 11:55:23 From Elaine Loughrey : Thank you - very informative!