New Feature in Canvas!

amcdonnell Uncategorized

Canvas just introduced a new feature! The feature, called Student Annotation Submissions, is an online submission type for assignments. This new assignment allows the teacher to upload a file to Canvas that the student can then, without leaving Canvas, mark up using the built-in annotation tools (highlight, make comments, draw marks, etc.) as their submission. This is a great tool to have students practice annotating and for teachers to gauge their progress. It many ways, it may replace the Kami annotation tool that many of us had been using. The annotating tools students have access to with this new feature are the same ones we have as teachers in SpeedGrader.

  • Overview/How to Use
    • Create an assignment as normal.
    • For the assignment type, choose Online.
    • Under online entry options, check “student annotation”.
    • Choose an existing file (such as a PDF, Word document, or JPG), or upload a new one, that will be the template for the annotation assignment.
    • Finish completing your assignment with the normal process.

Here’s a one minute video from Canvas explaining how it works.

Canvas Announcements From Last Year Showing Up on Copied Courses- Solution.

amcdonnell Uncategorized
Friends,
   I do not use the announcements feature very often and thus I did not know/ notice that announcements from last year will still populate a course your recopied from last year.  The problems arises because, unlike assignments, announcements are published as soon as you create them.
I have three suggestions on how to fix this. Do only one of them.
1. In hindsight, I should have advised that when you recopied last year’s course to not import announcements. So one way to fix this announcements problems is to delete virtually everything you copied from last year’s course- except for the first few things you’ve added for this year- or indeed delete everything. Then recopy the course- but this time- instead of clicking “all content” click “select specific content”. And copy everything but the announcements. You can always pull them in one by one later.
Select Course
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2. Go into each announcement and delete.
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3.  This may work for some announcements you plan to send in the near future.

  1. Go to Announcements.
  2. Click the title of an announcement.
  3. Click Edit.
  4. Make text changes as needed.
  5. Change the posting date if you want to send an announcement at a future date.
    1. Click the Delay posting checkbox
    2. Choose a Post At date and time in the future.
      Announcement Options; Delay posting option selected; Post At pop-up calendar shows selected posting date and time .
  6. Save.
-Alex McDonnell