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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 …
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 …
Change permissions for recorded Teams videos via the chat or through OneDrive to share with people outside of your team/division Changing Permissions via Chat Changing Permissions via One Drive
Learn how to expand or condense your workspace in Canvas There are various ways to enlarge the working space or window you are using in Canvas, such as clicking and dragging from the left or right sides of the Canvas window, and also dragging from the bottom of the window. There is another way that …
The following information outlines how to extract student results for Moderation purposes. This is done on an individual student result basis. When it comes to printing out the results for moderation, you have a number options available to you, depending on how detailed or deep you require the results to be.
Below is a list of HTML codes for use inside Canvas. These functions will help pep up your course content. You will find the full Cheat Sheet inside the MCS template. Colour Palette ⬤ MIT Red #DD1122 ⬤ Canvas Standard ‘Activity’ Aqua #45c2c5 ⬤ Te Pūkenga Dark Green #183121 ⬤ Te Pūkenga Secondary Green #3bad5f Copy Inside a Box …
Learn how to create hyper links in your emails. From time to time, it may become necessary to include hyperlinks in your emails, there are a few different ways to insert a hyperlink into your Outlook email message, so that your recipient can simply click on the link and open in their default browser. These may be …
This article will show you how to extract marked up PDFs using Foxit When downloading the student work from Canvas, it automatically includes the annotations. The file name indicates this, as seen in this example. To view the comments, you need to change the settings in your Foxit Window. This will show the following for …
This Skills article will show lecturers the different ways to email students in Canvas Canvas users have a number of ways they can email students in the Canvas interface. Users can email individuals via People and multiple people via Analytics. Using People to email individuals Using Analytics to Send Emails to Multiple Students
How to redact Canvas assessment for moderation for Foxit users. For external post moderation, lecturers need to remove the identities of the student and the lecturer (i.e. their names) from the saved PDF document about assignment submission with the lecturer’s annotations and comments. You must have Foxit PDF Editor on your computer to do this …
How to view and edit your files in Canvas. Using the files tab (in the main left menu), you are able to access every single file you have in ALL your courses and you can move files around from course to course. As a bonus, you are able search for a file across all the …
Learn how to toggle the navigation bar on and off in Canvas There is a feature in Canvas that you may find very useful, using the ‘Dropdown’ menu button at the top left of the Canvas window. To close the Navigation menu, click the 3 horizontal line image in the top left of the Canvas …
How to check your course for broken links and how to use the validate links option. You can check these links using the course link validator, which searches through course content and returns invalid or unresponsive course content links in both published and unpublished content. However, please note that some links flagged as unresponsive are …
How to access Canvas page history and restore pages to earlier versions When you can edit course pages, you can view the page history and see the date, time, and author of any changes made to the page. Page editors can also roll back the page content to a previous version of the page. In …
A Knowledge Base article on how to organise your dashboard on Canvas. How you can organize your Canvas dashboard – give your courses a nickname, change the colour, rearrange the course cards and pick and choose the courses you want to display on the dashboard. Renaming a course Let’s start by renaming or nicknaming a …
