UBC’s Canvas survey deadline extended: Take a few minutes to share your experience
UBC’s Canvas satisfaction survey was launched to help us learn more about what the UBC community thinks about Canvas and where additional support might be needed. To give more of UBC’s Canvas users a chance to provide feedback, the survey deadline has been extended until Wednesday, May 2. Instructors, TAs, and staff can take […]
End-of-term in Canvas: What you need to know
If this is your first time teaching with Canvas, these tips outline end-of-term best practices and UBC’s end-of-term procedures for Canvas courses. Grading 1. Make sure all assignments are graded Before submitting your grades, double-check that you’ve entered final marks for each student for all assignments in Canvas. If there are students in your class […]
Project update: Satisfaction survey, new tools, and a website for Instructional Support Staff
As UBC’s transition from Connect to Canvas continues, we want to know what the UBC community thinks about our new online learning platform. If you’re a current Canvas user, you’ll have likely seen an announcement in Canvas inviting you to take UBC’s Canvas satisfaction survey. Thank you in advance for taking the time to share […]
Are you teaching with Canvas? Take our 5-minute survey to share your experience
UBC has been offering courses in Canvas since September 2017, and we’d love to hear what you think of our new online learning platform. Take this five-minute survey to share your feedback about Canvas. Please note that UBC’s Canvas survey for students will be distributed on April 10, after Student Evaluations of Teaching have closed.
Sign up for a Canvas Analytics workshop
Canvas course analytics and quiz statistics can be useful tools for understanding how students are engaging with course materials and designs—for example, by providing instructors with data about which course resources students turn to most often. This semester, faculty and instructional support staff are invited to attend a one-hour, hands-on workshop that will teach participants how […]
Inability to view student responses in SCORM objects
Do you use SCORM objects in your Canvas courses? If so, you may have noticed that when using SCORM for assessments, your students’ grades are recorded, but their specific responses are not. For example, if your students complete a multiple-choice quiz in a SCORM object in Canvas, their score will be recorded in the Canvas […]
Canvas transition update
In June 2017, Canvas was selected as the online course platform that will replace Connect (Blackboard Learn) at UBC. Since then, faculties have made significant progress in transitioning to the new system. As of Winter Term 2, over 2,500 UBC course sections have been added to Canvas. Each faculty has developed its own timeline […]
Project update: New features and tools added to Canvas
UBC’s Canvas Project Team is excited to provide you with an update on our progress in implementing Canvas. For Winter Term 2, we’ve been focused on improving Canvas functionality, adding new features and tools to Canvas, and transitioning courses over from Connect. New features and tools Following testing and validation, a number of new […]
New Quiz tool now available in beta
Canvas’s new Quiz tool, Quizzes.Next, is now available in beta at UBC. Quizzes.Next (beta)—also known as Quizzes LTI and Quizzes 2—can be used alongside the current Quiz tool in any Canvas course. Note: Quizzes.Next is still under development UBC has activated Quizzes.Next (beta) to give instructors and staff the opportunity to experiment with this […]
Project update: Self-Enrol Groups functionality now available
We’re excited to announce that the People page has been activated for students. This enables full functionality of Canvas’s Groups tool, including the ability for students to self-enrol into groups. The People page displays the names of students enrolled in a Canvas course, allowing them to create their own online study groups and to self-enrol […]