Canvas Updates & Training Information - Fall 2023
New Canvas Features
New Quizzes: The 51视频-Dearborn Canvas team is now ready to support what Canvas calls New Quizzes on a wider scale. New Quizzes is a modern quizzing system that will replace the current Classic Quizzes system at the end of the Winter 2025 semester. New Quizzes has been available as an optional feature for a number of years, and is now at a point where it is very stable and feature complete.
New Quizzes will remain an optional feature that can be enabled in any course for the Fall 2023 and Winter 2024 semesters. Before the Summer 2024 semester begins, the New Quizzes option will be enabled in all courses to run alongside Classic Quizzes. At the conclusion of the Winter 2025 semester, Classic Quizzes will no longer be available for use in new courses.
At this time, we encourage new faculty or faculty developing new courses to consider using the New Quizzes system to avoid having to migrate next year. There are options to migrate from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes which can be utilized whenever you are ready to transition to the New Quizzes. While there is never an ideal time to do a migration like this, we hope the 20 month transition window will provide faculty with the flexibility to make the change at a convenient time.
The first training session on New Quizzes will be offered next week (see below), and we will continue to offer new sessions during the 20 month transition period. Please feel free to reach out to your unit's Canvas support personnel or to me directly if you have any questions about this.
51视频-Dearborn Canvas Training via Zoom
51视频-Dearborn's full Canvas training series (with a couple new additions: Canvas 352 and Canvas 353) will be offered next week according to the schedule below. Recordings of these sessions will be available on the . Please use the Google Calendar button for each session to add the session to your calendar and receive the Zoom information.
- Monday Aug 21 9am-10am: Canvas 101 - Introduction and Overview
This session will focus on the following areas of Canvas: the dashboard, user profile, notification preferences, conversations, course overview, and course settings.
- Monday Aug 21 11am-Noon: Canvas 201 - Content Delivery
This session will focus on the following areas of Canvas: announcements, pages, files, and conferences.
- Monday Aug 21 1pm-2pm: Canvas 251 - Video
This session will focus on delivering video content asynchronously through the MiVideo and MediaSite integrations with Canvas, delivering content synchronously through multiple conferencing integrations, and making videos accessible with closed-captions.
- Monday Aug 21 3pm-4pm: Canvas 301 - Interactivity and Assessments
This session will focus on the following areas of Canvas: discussions, assignments, and plagiarism detection.
- Tuesday Aug 22 9am-10am: Canvas 351 - Canvas Classic Quizzes
This session will focus on the following areas of Canvas: classic quizzes
- Tuesday Aug 22 11am-Noon: Canvas 352 - Canvas New Quizzes
This session will focus on the following areas of Canvas: new quizzes
- Tuesday Aug 22 1pm-2pm: Canvas 353 - PILOT of Wiris Quizzes
This session will focus on the following areas of Canvas: Wiris quizzes, a third-party quizzing focused on STEM areas, allowing more more mathematical functionality, showing of student work, etc.
- Tuesday Aug 22 3pm-4pm: Canvas 401 - Grading and the Gradebook
This session will focus on Assignment groups and weighing, rubrics, the gradebook, and SpeedGrader.
Canvas sites for non-Banner courses or programs
51视频-Dearborn's second Canvas instance, "Professional Development Canvas," is now available. This second Canvas instance allows 51视频-Dearborn to leverage Canvas for non-credit courses for industry partners, professional development, faculty/student training, programs for the public and more. In addition, this Canvas instance has a front end allowing users to self-register for courses and even optionally pay for the courses via credit card. For more information about this Canvas instance or to request a course be created, please see the Professional Development Canvas page.
Canvas access extensions for I/X grades
As a quick reminder, Canvas course access can be extended for students who have received an X or I grade (with a completed and approved I contract). If you would like to extend Canvas course access, please contact your unit Canvas support personnel and let them know which course and student needs an extension. Once the details are verified, Canvas access for the student and instructor will be extended to the deadline for X grade completion or the date on the approved incomplete contract. Please note that all student work and grading must be done by this date, there is not an option to have extra grading time in Canvas for these circumstances.
Canvas Support
If you or your students have any Canvas questions or support needs during regular business hours, it is best to reach out to your unit's Canvas support personnel via email or phone first, then arrange an in-person appointment if necessary. For help with Canvas technical issues outside of regular business hours or during holiday breaks, 24/7 support from Canvas is also available to 51视频-Dearborn faculty and students via phone or chat. Information on 24/7 support is available from the Help menu within Canvas.
Please contact The Office of Digital Education ([email protected]) with any questions regarding items featured here.