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Create Student Groups

How to create Student Groups in Canvas.

Calendar Reminders

How to create a reminder for a Calendar item in Canvas.

What are Canvas Pages?

Read about Pages in Canvas, and how you can use them.

Create Group Assessment

How to create an Assignment for Student Groups in Canvas

Copy and Edit a Rubric

How to copy a rubric so that you can reuse it without having to make a new one from scratch.

What is Canvas Calendar?

An explanation of what the Calendar in Canvas is, and how best you and your students could use it.

Display a File on Canvas

Embed a file on a page and display (view / preview / display) the file on a Canvas page.

Add Calendar Event

How to add a calendar event in Canvas.

Post a Chat

How to post a Chat in Canvas.

What is Canvas Chat?

Explore what Chat is in Canvas, and how you can use it.

Adding space around an Image

How to add space or padding around images on Canvas. Click Edit and switch to HTML Editor Locate the HTML code for the image(s) you’d like to adjust. Use Control+F or …

Embed or Link Files?

An explanation of what embedding and linking files in Canvas are, and when you might want to use either of these things.

What is a Collaboration?

What the Collaborations in Canvas are, and how best you and your students could use them. It also explains that you can do that you can do the same thing using Office365 or Google …

SharePoint or OneDrive?

How SharePoint and OneDrive can be used with Canvas.

Create a Collaboration

How to create a Collaboration in Canvas.

Group vs Individual Assessments

Explaining how you can use Student Groups in Canvas to manage group assessments.

Māori keyboard – Windows

How to set up the Maori Keyboard on Windows so you can easily apply macrons.

Interactive Stream Videos

Microsoft Stream video is and how you can use it.

What is X?

What Twitter is, and how you can use it to engage your students.

Māori keyboard – Apple Mac

An explanation on how to set up the Maori Keyboard on Mac so you can easily apply macrons.

How to Record a Video using Stream

How to record a video using Microsoft Stream. You can then edit this video before embedding it into your Canvas course.

Recording video using Stream

This explains why you would want to record your screen (screencast), or a short video of yourself, to present information to your students.

Home Page Design

Showing you what your Home page in Canvas should look like and what to include. It shows how you can use the MIT Canvas Standards (MCS) template to do this.

Syllabus Page

Where Course Outline information should be displayed in your Canvas course and how the MIT Canvas Standards page can help you do this.

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