The Universal Design Online Content Inspection Tool, or UDOIT (“You Do It”) enables faculty to identify and correct many accessibility issues in their MiraCosta Canvas courses. UDOIT scans a course, generates a report, and provides resources on how to address common accessibility issues. It was created by the Center for Distributed Learning at the University […]
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If you are using a publisher website for materials and assessments in your course, you may be able to ‘pair’ your Canvas course to the publisher course site so that students can connect to the publisher site from Canvas without a separate login. Some publishers also allow for ‘deep integration’ (or ‘deep linking’) between your
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Learn the two methods of how to add extra credit to Canvas Grades. Add a 0 points possible column to Grades via Assignments. Use Assignment Groups with Weights. Video by Curry Mitchell, MCC Faculty Member.
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Instructors of Canvas classes can add a TA or other MiraCosta College employee to your Canvas course with TA, designer, or observer permissions. DO NOT add students to your course on Canvas. Students are automatically enrolled from SURF to your Canvas course several times a day. You should not add anyone to Canvas as a teacher. Teachers
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Instructors of Canvas classes can add a TA or other MiraCosta College employee to your Canvas course with TA, designer, or observer permissions. DO NOT add students to your course on Canvas. Students are automatically enrolled from SURF to your Canvas course several times a day. You should not add anyone to Canvas as a teacher. Teachers
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All class sections scheduled for the spring semester now are available in Canvas where you can begin to work and build! If you expected a class to be set up for you, but aren’t seeing it in Canvas, check SURF to make sure the class is in the schedule and assigned to you. There are many
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By default the People tool will display all users enrolled in your Canvas course. You can filter the users by role to obtain the count of users in that role as well as Last Activity and Total Activity. From within a Canvas Course: Click on People Click on All Roles Select the specific role. The
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Here is a video, from Dr. Robert Kelley, that covers how faculty can selectively subscribe to a discussion board in Canvas (choosing immediate or daily/weekly summary). The hack is to use a separate student Canvas account, with notifications set up in the student account as desired (immediate or daily/weekly summary). Video: https://youtu.be/21VOacuxjl8 For example, this approach has application for
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MiraCosta’s primary option for free online tutoring for all students is eTutoring through the Western eTutoring Consortium. Another option for our online and hybrid classes is NetTutor, available through MiraCosta’s status as an Online Education Initiative pilot college. NetTutor provides support for just about any academic subject, up to 24×7 for the most popular subject
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MiraCosta College has transitioned from Blackboard to Canvas. Starting in summer 2018, Canvas is the sole supported course management system for MiraCosta classes. Canvas to Canvas If you are teaching with Canvas, and/or you have created content within a Canvas course you can copy the entire course or parts of the course into one Canvas course
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