Presenting Results at a PC
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Assessments
Canvas Assignment Publishing Status
An introduction on the Canvas assignment publishing status When creating a Canvas assignment or a quiz, it is not visible to the students until you have published it. There are several publishing states, with relevant icons for an assignment or a quiz at different stages. This allows you to control when assignments are made available …
When is it Appropriate to Use Group Assessments?
Group assessments also known as group assessments should include activities that is best done in groups: brainstorming, problem solving, making a specific choice, planning and designing, forming strategies, or debating an issue. It may be best to avoid activities that can be accomplished individually or subdivided and parcelled out to individuals. When to Use Group Work? …
What are Canvas ePortfolios?
Canvas Student ePortfolios are an academic portfolio network allowing you to showcase your school work accomplishments. It can be used as part of a course project or assessment submission and to connect with others. Canvas ePortfolio enables you to organize and display previous educational content. You are able to upload images, Videos (YouTube, Vimeo), PDFs, …
How to directly embed a YouTube video on a page using Canvas tools
Learn how to embed a video using Canvas tools, without leaving Canvas or coding. This feature enables teachers to incorporate a YouTube or Vimeo video into their content through the Canvas Rich Text Editing tools. Kaimahi have the option to explore video libraries like YouTube or directly insert a link to embed the video on …
How to Create an Assignment with the Turnitin Plagiarism Framework
An introduction to the procedures to implement the Plagiarism Framework for Canvas Assignments. The Turnitin Plagiarism Framework is an alternative way to check for similarities and Generative AI usage in students’ assignment submissions. It is integrated into the Canvas assignment settings page, and there is no need to configure its settings separately. You can still …
How to Allow Ākonga to Build on Their Last Attempt of a New Quiz
This article demonstrates how Kaiako can set up a quiz to enable akonga to reattempt previously failed questions. When this feature is enabled, ākonga can only view questions they previously failed, all other questions are hidden. They can reattempt the questions until they got the correct answer or they run out of attempts. Ākonga who …
Editing and Copying Existing Rubrics
Editing a Rubric in the Assessment window: Canvas will allow you to make a copy of the Rubric and subsequently edit the new copy. How do I copy a Rubric? Warning: Rubrics cannot be modified once they have been used in more than one place. This limitation is put in place by Canvas themselves. Editing …
Turnitin’s AI Writing Detection
Turnitin has added AI writing detection to the Similarity Report. To use it, you need to follow your usual Similarity checking workflow -both native or via an LMS. Feature Guidance When Using AI Detection Natively Step 1: Step 2: Similarity Score: Note: The Similarity Score is separate and independent of the AI indictor Step 3: …
Converting CSV Files to QTI ZIP Files
It can be time-consuming to add questions manually to a quiz or exam in Canvas, and it is easy to accidentally omit portions of a question, introduce errors such as typos, or improperly identify a correct or incorrect response. If you’ve been writing your questions in a word processor, you have a long copy-and-paste session …
Print Ākonga Quiz with Answers
Learn how to print or save a PDF of a learners quiz, complete with answers, directly from Canvas
Converting HEIC files to JPEG in iOS
This Knowledge Base article explains how to convert your iOS phone’s HEIC picture files into Canvas compatible JPEG files in a few easy steps. HEIC is a type of file format that iPhones typically use. HEIC files are hard for teaching staff to view so we request that you change the settings on your phone …
Converting HEIC files to JPEG in Android phones
This Knowledge Base article explains how to convert Android phone HEIC picture files into Canvas compatible JPEG files in a few easy steps. HEIC is a type of file format that phones typically use. HEIC files are hard for teaching staff to view so we request that you change the settings on your phone to …
Mahara – Where To Start?
A guide on how to set up your Mahara page Where to start? There are two ways to access MIT e-portfolio (Mahara), directly login from MIT e-portfolio (Mahara) front page or from inside Canvas course. Access Access Mahara from your Canvas course Setup your front page This is the place when people first see your …
Mahara Assignment
Create a Mahara assignment: Follow these steps to add an assignment on Canvas to let the students submit their Mahara page to your Canvas Assignment for marking. Student submission to this Mahara Assignment When the students select this Mahara Assignment, they will see the submission page as shown below. They can submit their assignments by …