November 2014 COSS FCAT Bulletin
November 2014 COSS FCAT Bulletin
The College of Social Sciences Faculty Consultant for Academic Technology Canvas site is specifically designed to serve the needs of the COSS faculty and programs. Visit https://sjsu.instructure.com/courses/1077576 for guides, tips, strategies and tutorials on using Canvas and integrating technology into your classes.
FCAT Ted M. Coopman <ted.coopman@sjsu.edu> in Communication Studies is available for one-on-one or group consultations and workshops in-person, via Skype, or through email.
News for November
Canvas Feature Updates
Canvas features are constantly updated and improvements and fixes pushed out to users. You can check resent updates by checking the Canvas Release Notes page: http://tickets.instructure.com/forums/337224-product-release-notes
New Groups Feature: You can now change a group's leader or the leader settings after the group has been created and is in process. Edited settings won’t take effect until after the next membership change, such as when another person joins or is assigned to the group. For manually enabled changes, you may have to refresh the page to see the group update.
For a complete overview of using the groups feature see Student Groups And Group Assignments overview page.
https://sjsu.instructure.com/courses/1077576/pages/student-groups-and-group-assignments
New Open Quiz Submit All: For students who navigate away from a quiz before it is finished you can now force submit all outstanding quizzes simultaneously. In the dialog window, Canvas displays a list of the outstanding submissions and automatically selects the checkbox next to each student’s name. To grade outstanding submissions for the selected student(s), click the Submit button. Canvas will grade the submission and update the score. For more information on using the quiz feature see:
Quiz Directions And Tips: https://sjsu.instructure.com/courses/1077576/pages/quiz-directions-and-tips
Online Quizzes For In Person Classes: https://sjsu.instructure.com/courses/1077576/pages/online-quizzes-for-in-person-classes
Featured Features
Using the Canvas Calender
The Calendar automatically syncs with other features in Canvas, such as Assignments, Syllabus, and Grades, so if you create, change, or delete the due date of an Assignment on the Calendar, it will show up in all the others and vice versa. You can change dates easily by dragging and dropping assignments from one date to another.Select feature include
Dates/times changed one place are changed everywhere
Sync with calendars in Gmail, Outlook, and iCal
Let students self-schedule office hour visits or presentation slots (you set the perimeters)
Student groups have their own calendars
For an overview video and links to Guides, check out my Canvas Calendar page
https://sjsu.instructure.com/courses/1077576/pages/canvas-calendar
Best of Ted’s Tech Tips
Greatest Features/Tips EVER!
NOT THAT SWITCH! DOH! Undo that catastrophic error
Simplify grading complex assignment by breaking submissions up - field tested - works great!
Avoid pre-mature lock out of students at the end of the term and get them early by over-riding my SJSU defaults