The key to using the Canvas learning management system is to provide your students with a conducive learning environment. It acts as the main interface for students with any course. Course sites designed using good practices are simple for students to navigate and easy for instructors to use and maintain. …
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In NUS, Modules are the default home page in Canvas Courses. You can change the default home page. A popular option is to set a Page, which you can design as you wish, as the Course home page. Another thing you can do: customise course navigation links. Those are the…
Leave a CommentEach academic course starts as a blank slate. If you have taught the course previously, you can import content from a previous semester. Quick tip: you go to your new course to import the content instead of going to the previous course to export it. If you want to have…
Comments closedLeslie Lee, National University of Singapore. In this post, Leslie shares with you how he organises course content in Canvas such that the platform functions more as a repository for the course materials. The NUS Canvas blog encourages the use of “Modules” to organize course content by week or topic…
Comments closedChng Tat Loon, National University of Singapore. In this post, Chng Tat Loon describes how he uses formula questions in Canvas to randomly assign different numerical values so as to generate differentiated quizzes for his students. Tat Loon is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of…
Comments closedHigh quality feedback has a powerful impact on student learning and experience (Gibbs & Simpson 2004, Hattie & Timperley 2007; Nicol & Macfarlane-Dick 2006). Providing students with meaningful instructor feedback in a timely manner will enable students to act on the information and improve their learning. Such feedback will need…
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