Canvas Tips
A Canvas Tip is a short informational post about Canvas that highlights a specific aspect of the course site, technology, teaching, or new features. The tips are sent to teachers by email and archived here. A selection of older tips is listed below.
You can view all previous Canvas Tips in Canvas
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New Tools for Feedback from External Reviewers
A Canvas tip introducing the FeedbackFruits tools Feedback Request on Work and Feedback Request on Skills, which allow students to request structured feedback from someone outside the course.
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Help with Learning Outcomes – AI Chat
Canvas Tip: Guidance on using the Help with Learning Outcomes GPT tool to create, review, and improve course learning outcomes in line with assessment, teaching methods, and academic level.
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Finalising Grades and Transferring Course Content
Canvas-Tip: Guidance for teachers on finalising grades in Canvas, checking the gradebook, preparing final grades for transfer to Ugla, and transferring course content to a new Canvas course.
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Time Savers and Recovery Tools
make shorter: A Canvas Tip: A short Canvas video (5 min.) for teachers on time savers and recovery tools, including restoring previous page versions, and recovering deleted assignments.
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Enhancing learning and feedback with rubrics
A Canvas Tip on the benefits of rubrics for assessment. Includes a link to excellent guidance from the University of Colorado Boulder.
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The Syllabus: Accessibility, Consistency and Work Style
A Canvas Tip on the Canvas syllabus, and the benefits of adding syllabus content directly in Canvas instead of sharing it as a Word or PDF file.
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