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The Faculty Senate Task Force on the Evaluation of Teaching has created a brief Canvas survey that instructors can use to collect midcourse feedback from students about the course.

Steps for teachers to enter grade information into Canvas and send the grades to Banner.

If you're graduating, there are a few things to do to ensure you don’t lose your data and files when you leave.

Mines provides all Canvas courses with Hypothesis, a social annotation tool that lets instructors and students collaboratively discuss and comment directly on course readings. Faculty can integrate Hypothesis into assignments or modules, use SpeedGrader for evaluating comments, and support dynamic discussions with links, images, and videos.

Instructions for providing accommodations in Canvas, including extra time on quizzes and assignments.

Alt text is a brief description added to images to ensure digital content is accessible to people using screen readers. It provides essential context for images in websites, documents, and learning platforms, helping users who are blind or visually impaired understand visual content. Adding clear and concise Alt text improves accessibility across digital spaces.

Captions make video content accessible by providing text-based dialogue and sound descriptions for viewers, including those with hearing impairments or those watching in sound-sensitive environments. MediaSpace automatically generates captions, but they should be reviewed and edited for accuracy, proper timing, and clarity. Embedding captioned videos in Canvas ensures accessibility while following best practices for clear, synchronized captions improves the viewing experience for all users.

Canvas is a versatile Learning Management System (LMS), designed to streamline course management, enhance communication, and support student engagement through a variety of integrated tools. This article provides an overview of Canvas's key features for new faculty, including content creation, grading, communication, and best practices for optimizing the educational experience.

In Canvas, students and instructors can change the course "nickname" displayed on their dashboard without altering the official course name set by the Registrar. This feature provides a personal naming option while ensuring critical systems like course evaluations and transcripts remain unaffected.

Extending Canvas course access for student incompletes

This article explains how to access HIVE-produced media content within Canvas after its migration from Vimeo to MediaSpace. It highlights where to find the videos and how to integrate them seamlessly into Canvas courses for easy access and improved course content delivery.

This article addresses an issue caused by a recent Canvas update that may prevent users from replying to discussion posts. It provides a step-by-step guide to check and update discussion settings to restore full functionality in forums.

This article provides a step-by-step guide to resolving a whitespace issue in embedded MediaSpace videos within Canvas by removing the width and height attributes from the iframe in the HTML editor. Following these steps will ensure the video displays correctly without excess whitespace at the bottom.