Browsing by Subject "Canvas"

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    Choose Your Own Learning Adventure: A New Approach to Modules
    (Indiana University, 2022-01-26) Scherzinger, Lamia
    The Modules tab on Canvas is a great way to organize your course, providing your students with a way to navigate the course and separate the lecture topics. Being able to list my students' weekly to dos, including the chapter's lecture via PowerPoint, was an easy to way to provide the course information to my asynchronous online courses. However, I began to feel limited in this approach, bothered by only relaying the information via a PowerPoint lecture with some words and my voice. Thus, I have created a second approach to this fall's materials: A choose your own learning adventure approach to the Canvas modules.
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    How To Get the Most From Canvas: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
    (2017-06-12) Elliott, Rob; Hook, Sara Anne
    This engaging presentation offers a wealth of insights, tips and recommendations for how to get the most from Canvas, including tools included or accessible via Canvas and Canvas Analytics. Reflecting rich diversity in subject expertise, the presenters have been teaching and taking online courses for more than 30 years combined. Specific topics to be covered: Enhancing Student Engagement and Collaboration, Canvas Analytics and Course Organization: Pages versus Modules.
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    Library Research Guides and the Learning Environment: Go Big or Go Home
    (2017-04-19) Meiman, Meg; McDonald, Courtney; Lowe, M. Sara; Lee, Yoo Young
    In Fall 2016, librarians at Indiana University Bloomington and Indiana University Purdue University in Indianapolis undertook a pilot project to embed course-specific library research guides directly into Canvas course sites. With help from partners at IU's Information Technology division, we were able to install a software tool that uses metadata to connect course and research guides within the navigation menu of a Canvas course. This increased ability to seamlessly present expert research help, library services, and resources (both subscription-based and open educational content) within a learning ecosystem where students and faculty already operate, presented a wonderful opportunity to make this content discoverable. More importantly, integrating library content and research help directly into the LMS itself has promoted greater collaboration among librarians, students, and faculty, and allowed librarians to create a more customized learning environment for students to enhance their learning experience. In this session we will present results from our eight-month pilot, including faculty and student responses to these learning modules, as well as usage data. We will also discuss how this project enables libraries to provide both a consistent user interface and high-quality scholarly content to all students and faculty. Finally, our project presents a compelling opportunity for a more unified approach to information access needs not only across the entire Indiana University system, but among all Unizin institutions.