Teams or Canvas

All the learning materials that you need students to access for your course should be kept on Canvas. A Canvas course should be broken down to organise this material either by topic or time.

You may need to deliver some (or all) of your face-to-face sessions with students using Teams rather than physically being in a room with them. You must make the course materials for that Teams session available through Canvas, not only Teams.

Example

Example: You are delivering an online tutorial using Teams. You need to refer to a file during the session.

Solution: Use Teams to deliver the online session. Upload the file to Canvas before or after the session. Share you screen during the session.

Example: Using flipped learning, you want students to have completed a template before the online tutorial and have it available on their screens during a Teams session.

Solution: Upload the template to Canvas before the session and explain it within the page/module. Make sure students know to complete it prior to the session and have it available to them. Use a Canvas Announcement to remind students what to do a couple of days before the session. They can bring their work up on their screen and the Team call run in the background.

Or

Use a shared template. A group of students can enter information into one document using Office 365 which you can link to using Canvas (they would do this prior to the session), and during the online session, you can show the completed document on your screen.

Example: While having a discussion with students during a Teams tutorial session you share a link in the chat.

Solution: After the Teams session upload the link to Canvas into whichever module the students are studying.

Explanation

From the above examples, you can see that you can use share items using Teams in both a planned and an unplanned way, but you must make sure that after the Teams session (if not before) all learning resources are available on Canvas for students.

Do not expect students to find resources in another location. Make sure that all files, links, and other resources, including recordings of Teams sessions, are available through Canvas. Upload your recorded Teams session to Canvas afterward.

Do not use Teams’ file storage/class notebook etc. as a place where course material is stored. If you need to use it during a Teams session, e.g. as a whiteboard/interactive place to write, do so, but make sure you transfer all material to Canvas afterward.