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The article explains how to turn on and check attendance reports for your Microsoft Teams meetings. It covers how to enable the feature before your meeting and then how to access and download the report afterward to see who attended and for how long. Before Your Meeting After the Meeting
In the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), the art and science of crafting effective prompts is crucial for getting the best results from AI models. This process, known as AI prompt engineering, involves creating, refining, and optimizing prompts to ensure AI tools understand and respond to queries accurately. What is AI Prompt Engineering? AI …
Tips on how to present your results at a PC
An introduction about sorting all Canvas courses from user’s All Courses page. As a lecturer, you may have difficulty in finding the right course from your course list, especially when you have taught for several years and have piles of courses with the same names on your Canvas page. Here you can try the Canvas …
You can create a link that allows people to contact you in Teams directly such as ‘Chat with me in Teams’. Clicking on the link will open the Microsoft Teams app and navigate the student directly to a private chat with you. Your link will now open Teams in a new window which will let …
Microsoft Whiteboard is an app available to you through Microsoft 365. You may need to find it under the More apps icon to make it available. Select the Whiteboard app from apps options available, If you just added the app, it will be at the bottom of the list. Microsoft Whiteboard is an app available …
This Canvas Knowledge Base article is a helpful video from the 60ish Second How-Tos series. New Quizzes offers several new features and question types, including a more flexible Fill in the Blanks option. Classic Quizzes were simple to use but somewhat limited. In contrast, New Quizzes provides a wider range of answer options not available …
You can create a new ePortfolio in your user settings. You must be enrolled in a course to create an ePortfolio. Copilot will generate a summary of the video content – you can use this in your canvas content to introduce the video OR to summarise the video. You can also click the box labelled suggest …
An introduction on how to create a Teams meeting link within a Canvas page and automatically add students You can create a Microsoft Teams meeting link (online class link) within your Canvas page and automatically add your students to it. You can place it on any page, or as part of an Announcement, Calendar or …
An introduction on the Canvas assignment submission, via a message to students based on assignment submission/marking status Often you may need to send a message to a specific group of students about their assignment submission or marking status or due date changes, etc. Canvas has provided a quick and easy way to let you do …
A quick video tutorial to show you how to set up your syllabus page on Canvas
A quick video tutorial on how to add your timetable to Canvas
A quick tutorial on how to set up your Canvas homepage
When importing course content with the Course Import Tool, you can choose to select specific content as part of the import. This option allows you to select specific content areas such as assignments, settings, and files without importing the entire course. Notes: Import Content into Course Select Content Type Select Specific Content View Content Import Warning …
Information about surveys to collect feedback and data about your graduates for the purposes of Consistency Reviews What? The NZQA manages ongoing quality assurance to ensure consistency in graduate outcomes for levels 1 to 6 qualifications and Level 7 diplomas across New Zealand. This aims to assure stakeholders that graduates achieve equivalent standards regardless of …
