Designing for accessibility in Canvas
How accessible is your Canvas site? Accessibility should be an important consideration when designing your Canvas course. The University of Sydney is committed to…
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Feedback and Feedforward in Canvas
Research in education has shown that feedback is critical for enhancing students’ achievement. Good feedback is simply good teaching and is easy to give…
[Don’t] Get Lost! Using good navigation and organisation to improve your Canvas site
Good (or bad) site navigation and organisation can go a long way towards making (or breaking) your unit of study Canvas site. Creating a well…
Top 5 student tips for improving your Canvas site (that will take you less than 10 minutes)
Canvas is allowing us to be more effective and creative in using graphics, layout design, templates, and many other aspects of what constitutes good…
EdTool Tips #15: Canvas Content and Marks Control – Publishing, muting, and visibility
The transition to Canvas is running along smoothly and we’re almost starting to get into a routine with it. The value of our ever-increasing experience…
Open Canvas sites – 2018 students’ choice
What makes a really great Canvas site from students’ perspectives? At the end of semester 1, 2018, over 5000 students from across the University…
Canvas workshops: foundations and assignments & anonymous marking
Canvas has many powerful features and tools to help your students learn online and for you to support, interact and assess them. Because it…
EdTool Tips #14: Finding the answer to your Canvas questions quickly
There are a wide array of new and existing support options for Canvas and it can be hard to know where to start. We…
Open Canvas Sites – 2018 edition
As the University started to explore Canvas in semester 2, 2017, almost 100 unit coordinators designed their sites in Canvas for the first time,…
Demystifying Sections and Groups in Canvas
Some common myths are still flying around campus about Sections and Groups in Canvas, what to use them for, and how best to manage…