Below is the official proposal for the adoption of Canvas, crafted and submitted by the Curricular Technology Team. Many faculty, students and staff contributed to the pilot that informed the proposal, we sincerely appreciate everyone’s efforts. There are a couple of notes about the proposal: The proposal assumes that the Canvas budget request will still…
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Middlebury Undergraduate College Pilot Survey Results
We asked pilot participants to share their experience with Canvas by completing a survey at the middpoint of the semester. Questions were about their general impressions of Canvas, the ease of use and usefulness of specific features, and how they felt about the support provided. Below is the summary from the Middlebury Undergraduate College survey….
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MIIS Pilot Survey Results
We asked pilot participants to share their experience with Canvas by completing a survey at the middpoint of the semester. Questions were about their general impressions of Canvas, the ease of use and usefulness of specific features, and how they felt about the support provided. Below is the summary from the Middlebury Institute of International…
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Criteria for Adoption
A Learning Management System (LMS) centralizes online activity for a course by providing common classroom management features such as a course calendar, gradebook, and ways to distribute readings and receive assignments. In addition there are expectations for the LMS to be user-friendly, reliable and function on mobile devices. Below are the criteria we will be…
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The SpeedGrader
The SpeedGrader in Canvas allows an instructor to provide feedback to a student for assignments, quizzes and discussion posts without leaving a browser. Feedback can be given in the form of annotations, attachements or in-browser recorded audio. There is also a SpeedGrader mobile app that can be run from an iPad. For more on the…
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Checklist
Canvas has a simple and helpful tool for creating a course site: a Checklist. This is a step-by-step guide to help faculty build their sites without having to remember every step they took in previous semesters. Start at the top with importing content, and work your way down the list to where you add TAs…
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Homepages
Canvas offers flexibility in what gets displayed on the homepage of a course site. Some of the faculty in the pilot have chosen to display the course activities by week or topic, similar to what is displayed in a Moodle site. Others have chosen to list the assignments, discussions and announcements for their course on…
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External Apps
Canvas has a library of external services that can be used in a course space. Some of these services are free, faculty and students need only create an account. Others require licensing. The ability to add integration with these services can offer faculty and students flexibility for classroom activity. There are a few services available…
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