Spring 2020 Canvas courses are ready

Canvas instructors,

 

Your Spring 2020 Canvas courses have been automatically created for you. If you do not see your course, it’s most likely because your name hasn’t gone through the official channels to become the instructor of record yet. At this early date, there are many of these. Once you become official, Banner will process you into the Canvas course. Students will be imported into their courses in early January.

 

Some notes:

 

1. If you plan to merge courses or sections, you will do that in Canvas, not in Class Web. Please read Merging Sections in Canvas, and follow the instructions.

2. When moving from one semester to another in Canvas, you can either copy a previous semester's course content or export the previous course and import it into the new course. You can do all of these by going to Settings in a course. While in Settings, DO NOT click the Copy this Course button on the right side; this tool creates a new course that your students will not be able to access.

1. Learn how to copy a course.
2. Learn how to export a course.
3. Learn how to import a course.

3. If you are teaching an online course, you have the option to use the Canvas model course template as a starting point. The course is based on the Academic Senate-approved OEI’s Course Design Rubric and provides organization and structure for your course. If you want to view the model course, let me know. If you already have access to it and want to use it, complete this form.

4. The OEI’s Quest for Online Success tutorial is the student readiness tool used for DE courses at LPC. There is a Canvas version to which you can have students self-enroll. You can even have students complete assignments based on the tutorial. Learn more about Quest.

5. Remember that everything in your course must be made accessible to students with disabilities. To learn how to do this, you can either come to a workshop, make an appointment, or complete the Canvas tutorial called Web Accessibility Course.

6. The New Gradebook in Canvas will be turned on by default Jan. 9. You can enable it now in your Spring course by going to Settings - Feature Options and clicking the button for New Gradebook. Learn how to use the New Gradebook.

 

Scott

Spring Canvas courses

LPC Faculty,

 

Just wanted to let you know that all Spring 2020 courses are scheduled to be automatically set up in Canvas on Wednesday.

 

Scott

Canvas error messages Wednesday

For almost a half-hour Wednesday just after 5 pm, Canvas users were getting error messages while attempting to access Canvas. This problem was corrected prior to 5:30, and Canvas is now working normally.

 

Scott

Heads-up: Canvas navigation changes

Those of you using Canvas will notice cosmetic changes in the course navigation menu of your courses beginning Saturday. For web accessibility reasons, Canvas will indicate menu items not visible to students with an icon. Currently, they are grayed out. The current page will be depicted in black with a vertical line in front of it. No functionality has been changed.

 

 

View more information about this change.

 

Scott

 

Regular effective contact reminder

[Apologies if you got this twice]

Online instructors,

In an effort to ensure that the state- and federally mandated regular effective contact regulations are being met in online and hybrid courses, the LPC Distance Education Committee has asked me to send a Mid-Semester Regular Effective Contact Checklist to you. These mandates include instructor-initiated contact with students and fostering student-to-student contact.

Links to more information are included at the bottom of the checklist.

If you have any questions, let me know.
Scott

 

Canvas page errors

Canvas just sent an email saying that users have been experiencing page errors since yesterday. No other details, but I thought I'd pass this along in case you have been hearing any about Canvas errors from students. Canvas says the issue has been resolved.

Scott

Canvas error Sunday night

Canvas sent a note saying that on Sunday between 8:59 p.m. and 9:10 p.m., some users experienced errors while uploading files into the system. So if you had students claiming they could not submit an attached file, this is the reason.

 

Scott