All right.
So we're going to go through all the fun new crazy stuff today
in canvas. This isn't everything.
I think we won't have time to go everything over everything.
But we'll get you a good foundation
in what's been changing.
So a couple of things that are new are just super, super easy stuff.
And it's more of settings and things.
So inside of your account.
So if you're in canvas
you click on the global navigation where you click on account.
This is the same for students.
There is a high contrast UI
and there's a dyslexia friendly font that down here at the bottom,
you can just turn these on whenever you want,
but you'll have to reload canvas for it to show up.
I'm going to turn both them on so you can see.
So whenever someone calls us and goes my canvas is blue for some reason.
That's that's why.
So if you have a student going
like my canvas does look like yours, it's blue or the fonts all wonky, it's
because they've turned one of these settings on.
The idea behind this font
is for specifically dyslexic readers,
but the font is top or it's bottom heavy, so it creates a different flow.
Whereas like Times New Roman, my font guy, I'm sorry,
it has two parallel lines across the entire font.
So it has you read this way.
Well, if you have a hard time
staying in, your brain is constantly doing this right.
And so you're making little circles.
And so the font
wraps you around, kind of keeps it going that way.
So it keeps moving in a forward line.
So that's that kind of some of the science behind it.
But so that's a nice little, little new setting in there.
You'll probably never use it,
but it's good for students to know that it's there.
The other thing that I just found out today,
and I can't show you in here
because there's no announcement and I don't want there to be an announcement.
So tonight you have one in here?
No. So I'll just show you on the screenshot
that I took earlier
because.
Why is it not there?
I didn't add the screenshot.
That's why there.
So we go here
and I'll go to announcements
and oh good. There are some here.
Let's
I might have to send one out.
So I'm just going to
send an announcement out to my class.
And then I hit pretty much it's how they interpret it anyway.
Right.
And I go, oh no, I made a spelling error.
Obviously I can come in and hit edit.
And previously, if you edited an announcement
sent out to it would not send it all.
And so no one would know that you edited it.
You'd have to send out another announcement.
Correct. The first announcement.
You could correct it, but no, wait. No.
Now, when you hit save, it has.
Do you want everyone to know that you've added so you can hit send
and everyone will see the new version announcement.
So you only have one announcement.
And that'll send out as a main type to do so.
If a simple spelling error
like I did earlier today, you can just say save and don't send.
But if it's something changed like a date or something, you could go back and edit
the same announcement and then notify this soon after you send it.
Can you do that immediately?
Immediately? But what if you wait?
What if you don't realize it for like a couple of hours?
Then you can sign up. Yeah, and it will.
It could be days later.
Like I said, if you send let's say
you sent out something about, hey, we're going to we'll see you next Monday.
And then something happens.
Is a campus closure.
You can send an announcement that it's that it's,
and done, but you could also go back and change
that previous announcement to say it came to this close to this day.
And so the little edit mark in there, okay.
Because my my trick about this, I never trust myself.
It's so to delay with it sent.
Yeah.
So if I went in I all the time is it actually saving
when I go back in and save.
And then when it finally. Yes.
Yeah yeah yeah.
Did version. Yeah.
So if you go if I go in here with my trip.
Yeah I mean you can set up a delay then on the announcement.
Right. So these are set to you a different date. Yeah.
So if I went into this announcement that's not
sent yet, I would go in here I don't know.
But anyway, yeah, I just edit it.
Yeah.
You just edit it and it'll it'll show you.
I guess I have to make a new one.
I'll make another exactly one. Yeah.
And I can say,
available for,
Whatever data I want and hit save.
Don't send their announcements at 12 a.m., please. So.
And then.
It'll show up here as delayed until.
Right.
So if you go in here and you edit it.
Right.
I can come in here and edit right.
Whatever you it's not sent out. Right.
So it'll just send out the latest version that's in there.
Yeah. You're good. Yep, yep.
It's always good to ask those questions and that's interesting.
That's why I get confused.
Well and the canvas uses the send instead of save.
You're not actually sending it.
Think of that button that save.
Just ignore canvas is bad nomenclature.
That's really helpful. Yeah.
Thank you. Yeah.
But it's a question because they change with the default.
When you're creating
an assignment,
the default start time or until end time.
Sure.
I don't know
which one of the tracking settings for the ones.
So voice comes.
And yeah, I don't know I
if it's there I was not aware of it.
So nothing hidden anymore.
Finally.
Some people didn't like their.
I wonder if it's in your account.
I wonder if it's your account setting.
Yeah,
we can look that up before we're done here
for sure.
Okay. Oh.
The other thing, as a reminder for both you and your students,
the at the bottom of the global menu is that help question mark.
The black and white one there.
It updated this to change.
Things are a little bit around for some of the questions
I've been getting from students.
So at the top is this 24 chat
24 hour chat with canvas for students.
So right inside the, The Help.
So she says help bar.
So that can answer any questions about canvas.
That is a direct line to canvas.
That is not how do I complete this assignment.
It's not instructions about writing.
It's not net tutor.
Right.
And it's literally like my canvas isn't working.
So it's when students are panicking
and not able to submit an assignment or something like that.
These are the people that can help them do that.
Is there a 24 seven for students or just for faculty?
That's the student one.
Oh yeah. So if you look right at the
the very top.
Oh I'm sorry, I know they made it too big.
I was looking for to be on the list.
So external. Yes.
So the faculty one is down here about to.
I'll show you a secret.
If I click on the student support one and then
notice what it does in here.
So it asks you for your role to see it says student.
And if I go back to that help menu
and it's around the faculty one and I click faculty
it's the same form.
It still says student.
So it doesn't matter which one you click.
They're actually the same thing.
Yes. Yep.
That is 24 hour live human support by an actual canvas technician.
Somewhere on the planet.
Somewhere on the planet. Yep. Okay. Yep.
And that's all of canvas.
And that works. So that works for you guys too.
So we get a lot of simple questions sometimes that are like,
how do I change my due date? It's not saving.
And the email us at 449 on Friday and we're like already have my ties in hand.
Right.
It's like, and we're going to get back to you on Monday in this case Tuesday.
Use that 24 hour support that's paid for by the state.
So that's, just another reminder there.
So what?
And this will be helpful for some of the people that contact you as well.
Tara, is that,
for those who use respond
this, they added not only the responders tech support link right here,
but they added the download link for for respondents browser.
So if someone's like, I don't have the playlist version or whatever,
it's all there.
So they can just yeah, and make it really easy for
it. Well the problem is when you Google search for responders,
responders, the responders installer is specific for every college.
That's the problem. Yeah.
And so if you download it from somewhere else it doesn't work.
Here's the cool thing.
If you're a student taking, classes at Ventura College
from us and from Antioch, and they're using responders in all three
colleges, if they install it from,
Ventura, all they have to do
is come to our installer and go to install it.
And what it's going to do is going to flag
the same instance of responders on their computer with two schools.
And so now that that their computer knows that they're go to either school.
So when they start an exam, it just lets them in.
It's not really documented or really well talked about,
but that's that's a really cool feature of responders.
So it really helps the students who are taking classes at different schools.
Yeah,
it's it's it's and you
wouldn't it's the equivalent of turn it in for exams.
So it's it's a proctored taking an online.
And yeah basically limits the ability to browse.
Yeah. Any other. Yeah.
Exactly. Browser. Yeah.
So I am doing for my vinyl
they Rita and then a book
basically and then they write an essay on it
and I their book is an e-book.
But I wanted to figure out how to prevent them from accessing the internet.
But that work if they we can talk about that later.
That's what it's that's what it's designed to do.
So you can and it causes them to jump through more hoops.
So it's kind of like what's the balance there.
Yeah.
How much extra work you're making the student do be,
what you're asking them to really put together.
So the a better solution is,
you know, how you can write your questions or give them something to produce
that is less easy to just go.
Right?
And like I said, we can we can keep talking.
It's just.
Yeah, because all it's going to do
is keep them from looking up stuff on the computer that they're on.
Yeah, that's way around everything.
Writing. Yeah.
And the problem is this book is pretty well known.
That's becoming the problem for what I teach is
I can't teach pretty much anything out of the canon anymore.
It has.
I mean, I spent all summer trying to buy, like, things that I could teach this
actually, the previous summer for my lip class, that would be really hard.
So I was trying to get like, stories right out of the most current New Yorker,
but still chatty pretty well, and hallucinated a lot more.
Yes, exactly. Yes.
And the last thing I want to point out
and here is this other red box down here.
So this is like your life help some links.
There is like,
scroll thing doesn't always work.
There's the IT support task as well, but those things are inside of here.
But this little tiny red, red one down here.
What this is, is a is a link to the canvas guides
that is contextual.
So if I'm on the main page here and I'm as an instructor,
if I click on this, it's going to give me information
like how do I use the home page as an instructor,
if I'm a student and I'm in, discussion
or I'm in a quiz or I'm doing something like that and I come down.
So let's go into
this discussion post
and I click on this little red canvas guides.
Now it's going to give me information about discussions.
Right.
So it's a little it's a little contextual help. Menu.
How do I use discussions as a student I'm lost and I've never used canvas before.
But I can click on that little red pill.
And here's a video on how the discussions over. Yeah
okay. What
so like something messed up.
Well, after this session, I will fix that
and make sure everyone's seeing it because everyone should be seeing it.
Okay.
Because that is super helpful.
And it's contextual.
And for everybody.
So I'm surprised you're not seeing it.
Seeing or didn't you.
Yeah, I'm seeing it here, but it might be still my log in.
So that is fascinating
if I go yeah we've had it for a while.
So you get
I am I see it under mine.
So it should be there.
It's really weird.
See, I think
you're up.
Some things.
Yeah.
Okay.
I have a list here, too.
These are all.
Most of them are new to me.
To small. Could do.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay, so the course card update I wanted to mention to you all.
Of course, of course.
Card update is on your canvas home page.
Let's see what was on.
Okay, so when we see the
canvas course card, this is what we're talking about on here.
And most of you are familiar
with the California Virtual Campus we API.
So even if you're not badged, your classes are available for students to log into.
You know, I'm in Ventura and they need asynchronous online.
What's that?
Fully asynchronous online.
Okay. Sorry. Yes.
Greatest online courses are in here.
But anyway, what we found out we can do
is what we're also asking you to do
is on your course card, put City College's logo,
then students will be taking it and hopefully other people will see
will be easy for them to see the students PCC and so what we're going to do
is we're going to make a course card like this, just one
that has nothing on it basically, but the city College logo.
Then you can use this is Canva
so you can quickly make a course card.
Can you talk about that really quick? Certainly.
So the idea is I actually asked, Jordan
Killebrew to make sure this is all okay, as we're not full approval to do this.
I mean, idea
is the students again at Ventura College, and I'm taking classes at their places
when they log into their dashboard, they see all their classes.
They don't necessarily know that this is the class at this at SMC.
This is the class. It's over here.
So we're trying to get that branding and all of it,
but also when they call the student helpdesk
the help, they don't identify themselves as a different student.
So we're kind of hoping that this will help them though.
Hey I'm I'm in SVC now.
So when I call the help desk from the SVC course, then
they'll be able to say, hey, I'm taking a class of interns that helps them
understand that that's what this is just something we actually thought of.
Like last week, I was kind of like, oh, this this will help.
I think this summer I live the summer.
They're at their well over 33,000 crossing limits statewide.
So over double from last year already.
So they're thinking that Pi hit 50,000 by the end of the year.
That could be easy for future.
The shells would just come with that brand on already on it.
Right. That would be a canvas thing.
Yeah.
That's a lot more programing that you keep in mind.
If I build a logo from every single thing.
So if we just brand our course are not all students will see it,
but at least it's something that we can do kind of on the front end
to help our students know that it's
okay if it's not a fully online, asynchronous first product.
Okay, I do that.
They do teach those having that to be helpful.
So is the sizing. That's first.
Yeah.
So we so I'll show you that we she made some blank white images.
And then we have it in canvas.
So I can have my own image. Yes.
Okay. Feel all right.
I can do that.
And if for some reason you want it is like a Photoshop file or an illustrator file,
your fancy, we can get to that.
Use here.
That's fine. Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay. Amazon you know okay. That or okay.
You okay.
And so within this class you probably see something you haven't seen before
here over in the left hand navigation is called smart smart search.
And how you would add it I don't know if you would want to add it
now because not only you can use it, but students can use it.
But what we're thinking is, as you're
making a new course next semester, or
you want to look through here and find like, where do I have DSPs?
I know you added it to my syllabus, but I know I put it a couple other places.
So instead of searching all through here, what I can do is I can
go to the smart search and I'll show you how to add it here in a minute.
So I'm going to go to my smart search E
and actually I should do this within this one
because I can find something pretty good in here.
Okay.
So in this canvas basics, if I go to smart search
and I am looking for a student
or let's say all of their assignments,
I can put in the name, and then over here some filters, I click on filters.
It's looking at all sources right now.
But if I unclick that and do assignments okay.
And then I search is going to go through and quickly
find all of the items she's completed.
And when I click on here it's going to take me to her
submission okay.
Some of the things I think we're still learning.
You know, what's the real benefit of where we think they're pulling up here?
But, I could see that being that being helpful
because I did have an instructor that was saying,
you know, I did this and I did that, and I could have gone through,
you know, okay, I'm an assignment, so I'm searching.
But when I just searched it this way, it all came up.
So without without having to dig deeper manually, the one thing it's useful
for the student has taken lots of times I right.
That's an I. That's an idea to
relatedness
virtually if they do active semesters.
And I didn't change one of the assignments like oh yeah you've done this for you.
It sounds familiar.
Okay.
But within here,
and the thing about students,
being able to search,
I would think they could only see what's published, but still,
I don't know if I would want students to be searching that granularly into.
Do you agree or does the search. Yeah.
Yeah, I would error right now.
I wouldn't have not
unless you're specifically showing them how to do something
or like all your content in there as a reference class.
Like I could see someone who maybe has like, let's just say for
for fun, the chemistry department wanted to put all their lab manuals
in one canvas, show that all the other shells play too.
So here's all the lab manuals.
That's the kind of thing I put smart Search on so that people could search it,
but they can't be PDF, Ascii canvas pages.
Missing. Right.
So it's kind of like, I don't I haven't found that like,
oh, this is exactly the same use for it, right?
The only use I really thought of is like at the beginning of the term,
like right now we're switching from pipeline to my edu.
So if you want to search your class right, reset pipeline,
turn on the smart search, do a search for the word pipeline,
correct it, turn it back on something like that.
Yeah.
That's that that's a good example there.
So to get to this, if you want to try at some point you go to settings.
And then again it's under feature options.
And if you scroll down you're going to see right here Smart Search.
If you turn it on it does take a couple minutes
because it's searching your whole class.
It's going to the pages. It's going everywhere.
This last night when I was playing with say to This thing, but it did. It did.
After a while it did come up okay.
And like Rob said,
if I want to turn this off for anybody in my class,
now that I've used it to play with, all I have to do is come here
and do the exact same thing and disable it.
Okay, so then it probably will take just a second for it to go away,
but to load it to move up the options topic,
how do I get my tutor out of my grade?
You can't yeah.
You can't make a link called canvas and complain.
Because, you know, she keeps like, it's annoying
because she's not doing the assignment, but it keeps showing up
that she has assignments do.
Right, right. But it's it's role based.
And I will make her a like I have a teacher who's also been here.
I would advise against it.
What about a T.A. to that same.
They still be in the class
away, but they can see all the grades and everything.
So once that person is uploaded to your class, like a teacher or a
teacher, oh, then they can see the grades and grade students and things like that.
So it's a of.
Well, even if it's just an observing teacher
that they can actually change groups afterwards, you can't, but they can't do
the things that they can't interact with students like a tutor.
Again, okay.
This is a common problem amongst all of canvas.
Feel free to call up and say, why do you need us
as a tutor?
Well, I repeat, that's not in my book,
okay, because I haven't used an online to like a yeah,
yeah, yeah, that is part of it okay.
It's just annoying.
Yeah.
So not trying to change the role or all these options.
Okay. Yeah. Okay.
In the grade like you do is going to go ahead and, like,
give them 100% score on everything this semester, okay?
Okay. Yeah.
Okay.
And so the next thing I want to show you actually two things about new quizzes.
And, Cynthia, you said you were starting with, classic quizzes, which is fine.
There's nothing you can see here.
The difference, but
when you're just looking in,
if you want to know if you're using classic or new quizzes,
you'll notice that news quizzes are colored in with the green color.
Another solid.
So when when people call up and ask us, you know,
I have a question about this and we say, what are you using?
And usually it's like, I'm not sure that's what we look for.
And going to the quizzes area, if it's solid.
We know you're using new quizzes.
Now with new quizzes we come in here and new quizzes.
It looks a little different.
The main thing if you switch from your classic quizzes,
classic quizzes have question banks, new quizzes have iting banks.
And so what's item itemize.
So it's a little bit it's a little bit different.
It's not hard but it's you know just kind of back have to back out of
you know how we always have done it for the last ten years.
So within this new quiz,
if I scroll down and this is what a big difference
when I initially started working with these quizzes is you go down
to the build button in the lower right hand node.
Remember in classic quizzes up here we just have questions.
We go up there.
Yeah.
But down here you have to scroll down.
You have to hit build
because they have a number
of different question types.
And so you can tell it looks a little bit different.
But there's a new question type that's called a question block.
And what it's been made for.
What was the name of it
before you could put just a line of text?
What the text block.
You could just put,
just wording, but with this text block down here, this
this type, what you can do is you can add a chart.
You could add a small,
line of text, number of different things.
But then you can tell students that this like this here, this,
this diagram is going to be used for the next three questions okay.
So it allows you to put different images things like that up here.
And then students know as they come down through here that these questions
were for referring to the image up above the same thing down here,
you know, read the following background before answering the next questions.
So you don't have to repeat that.
And each one, you know gets a little
little hard to to have to
refer back, you know, when it's an each one's kind of overwhelming.
I think all the wording.
So that is good.
When you add one you would hit the plus just like you would add another type
of question.
And then this is insert content.
These are the different types of items different types of questions.
And so this is a text block that we're using here
that you want to keep in mind that you won't want to sort,
you know, randomize your questions because you'll want them in this order
so that the next three questions
truly pertain to the item that you put in that block.
You guessed.
And so that is that.
And also within here and I had mentioned this to you,
Cynthia, if you decide to go with new quizzes,
this is one thing I like about it best is you have a student who,
has an accommodation of double time.
You don't have to go into each quiz and change that.
What you would do is you would come in here, we're building the new quiz.
We're going to go to moderate and have a list of all my students.
If I went to the pencil,
this is
where I could change, you know, give additional attempts.
I can adjust the time for this one quiz.
But what you could do over here, if I click on the students
name, you'll see course accommodation.
These settings will be applied to all quizzes in the course.
Except for the ones that are already in progress, like Hope,
quizzes that that particular student will end up taking.
Correct. That's correct.
And so then you would click down here and I usually see people
using the time multiplier.
That's most common what we see in Chrome DSPs.
So if you do this and then you know she just gets double time.
And then if we save that not just this
quiz gives him double time.
The other quizzes within here already have that in there okay.
So that's that's a time saver for sure
okay.
Text blocks accommodations in the gradebook.
Some of you may have noticed
that they have different
filters you can use.
So right now there's no filters applied because you're going to be listed
over here to the right.
But maybe I see a lot of people using this, like when they have cross
listed classes and they just want to see students from a certain certain section.
But you can apply a filter
in this one of courses and have a cross listed, or I would have shown you that.
But if I want to search,
just see everything in the modules, all the grades I can click on modules.
This one has a zooming modules in it.
Cynthia, this is this is the demo
list to see if Cynthia had any
anything.
So we must have been talking about play pause.
And so this is you know, I decided not to use it actually.
Okay. But there's I think we were testing with.
That's right.
Nobody's taken it anyway.
So. Okay.
But that these are the different things and you can add more than one filter.
So let's say in that module
I want to see the submissions
that, has no submissions.
Okay.
So there is all the people that we were seeing a moment ago.
So these are the different filters you can put on here okay.
And so to remove them we can just check remove them from here.
You can also click here. So.
Filter now
in the folder.
Just because my drop down was so long.
The other thing is kind of neat
is the in a speed grader you can now give video feedback.
And so yeah I heard about that.
I've been doing that.
Just below the audio.
Yeah.
So this and what's neat about this is not only you give
audio and video feedback, but you can do a screen capture.
Do you want me to wait
like this really fast?
Do do you?
Okay.
So yeah, that that I think most people
let me show you more about the,
the new quizzes just to have you thinking about it.
So when is new quizzes?
We go, and I don't know, they're not a big part of my class, so.
So you. Yeah.
Well, I just I have it's 10% of the grade
and I'm probably going to have a total of
eight quizzes. Yeah.
So I don't see a real it's real need for a.
Yeah it's almost.
And when I've for months
for to switch to new quizzes
that she only uses, just do
as a reason for the passive.
But the nice thing for next semester, when you roll over your class,
you can just say, have a transfer over because it's going to be face to face.
That's right.
Yeah, I still do quizzes in my face to face.
But yeah, the the nice thing about new quizzes is like, I don't
we talk about the monitor or the,
extra time.
Yes. Yeah.
So that's that's the big benefit in my opinion.
You know, the cheating students will notice the difference.
So if you do for your face to face, do you do
do you have to do the quizzes at home or you do it in the actual classroom,
like on
I have do quizzes at home, but I'm teaching business
and marketing classes and they're like reading checks.
So that's basically that again, is like 5% and 10% difference.
It's yeah, just it's like, did you read this chapter?
Do you know how to code to
you? Even if that's the only time to read the book,
I take it I will take them if they answer questions
while they're reading the chapter or looking at all the answers.
Cool. I'll take it. Yeah.
And the credit for that book. It's right.
Yeah. That's true.
Okay, so the new speed grader
video.
So I'm going to choose an assignment.
This is just an essay assignment.
I'm going to come in here and of course, you know burning up the right hand side.
This is the speed grader.
And then of course our pictures are written.
Okay.
And of course within here you can put the questions, you can, or put the.
Put the grade.
You can type out your comments here if you want.
You can come down here.
And this is what you were talking about
earlier that you pick audio, audio, comments.
But I've never done the video okay.
So right here the new new record video and screen captures.
So if we click on here
lots of things pop up okay.
So canvas wants to use these things now.
We're using them now with zoom.
So I'm not sure if it's going to do anything.
You can see loud press my fingers
okay.
You can see you. It's
okay to see any smoke coming up okay.
So so obviously
this is from the ladybug.
And so what we can do now is if we want to,
if we want to do the screen capture, okay.
Usually
I would set the this to not the lumens.
But I'm going to say this.
Still there
anyway we would change.
Sure. Why.
But the idea for
this would be you're going to want to do a screen capture.
So if you click here and you enable the screen capture,
That's because we're in the lab and we're
going to get permissions to this computer.
So it's kind of like snagit or anything else.
But what's nice about it sort of a screen reader.
So varying students turn in a project or paper and you've entered it up.
You can do that screen recording, comment and show them the paper
or the project right side speed grader and talk to them about it.
And, when I just confirm
you can do the video in here, it does auto captioning as me.
I'm only part of right now in canvas that has auto captioning.
Yeah, I don't know if it'd be audio.
Audio comment only. Does that or not.
So what I would do if I were you just do a video comment and turn the camera off.
Right? That's right.
And that way it's still your voice.
They can see their paper, they can see what you're talking about
and it's going to caption it. So you and it.
So you're covered on all your bases for 508 and everything else.
The screen capture
I did enable, and it does look like it hops through all the things.
So if I start recording, it's going to give me a countdown.
Okay.
And the blue
to say the little blue
box around here, that's what it's recording.
But let me see here okay.
It's interesting because I'm in here under Jeff.
It's not let me change it.
But if I had a submission by Jeff it would be showing here.
And I can scroll through it.
I can go through the annotation tools while I'm talking,
circle things, highlight it, you know, do all that.
But then when you're done, you've probably seen it put the recording right here.
So what's nice with the with the auto captions?
I think that just like this, this is the blank kind of day.
I have an essay. Right.
You know, doing that.
Why do you need have a caption? Right.
I have to load up everything for for the captioning something that.
That's too bad. That's showing us.
Let me finish this recording and let me know.
Okay.
Do you know how many things can we stack on here?
Okay, so this is this is what it shows up as is that little thing here.
How did you turn it on?
Okay. Turn.
Did you have to put, you know,
which which are you talking about?
I just wanted to try it.
Try it out.
But as you can see, I should be
screwed.
Yeah. We did all that. Yeah.
And then it went to open Preferences.
I didn't seem to have preferences.
Thank you.
The teacher
did. I choose.
Actually, you can do that.
But I usually do
what I was playing like choose the assignment.
Then it expanded recently.
Click on the thing there.
Sharing you.
Okay I know I think it's going to
just behave this or this way.
Nice. Here I'll do it okay.
So you do it.
So if you had the camera okay.
This computer is like off the screen.
Okay.
So the hits if the screen got here, like on the worksheet.
And then it had the assignment.
Yeah. And then it share. Okay.
And then.
Yeah just 3040.
So what is it actually videoing the whole on this case.
The whole screen.
That's the whole time okay okay.
Now I'm just going to say I was playing with the earlier at this point you see.
Yes it is submission there is testing teacher
okay.
And you can just play it in there too.
We just sent it to day two.
So you just sent that yes
I did yeah.
Is available okay.
What do we do that for you.
You click this point and
yes the submission there testing test retest.
Yeah. Good sound.
You can close that.
Yes I like that I like it.
It says here you go. This right way I don't know why.
Try this. It's just be a video and comments.
But he obviously submitted it because it isn't sitting there saying but
I can't see it.
I did and then I well, I can look at that.
Okay.
I just it on but I didn't see this video okay.
Okay. So that is my last thing.
But now it won't go of me perfectly.
But we do on time until we still have 50.
And here's the list.
But that's still not.
What the early on.
As I said, to save it.
But that's okay.
I don't need that whole thing. Open it up.
Perfect.
Where are we at? Where are we at?
Did that,
did that or did that?
Oh, the ugly stuff.
Okay.
This is one of those features
that, again, most people don't use, myself included.
But if you want to show it to you because it's there,
they change the entire interface in the files menu.
So I haven't used it in a while.
I don't remember it.
It looks like, okay, so this won't bother you by myself?
I probably haven't clicked on files in like three years,
so when I open it up, I'm like, looks.
It looks fine.
It's because it looks more like Google Docs now.
So you open it up, you're like, oh, this is very familiar.
What are you talking about?
Up at the top I can say switch to old files.
And this
is what it looked like last semester.
Right.
And so what I could do is see the folders over here.
And I can click on the folder and then see the icons inside that folder.
It's just like a little bit different interface okay.
Then click back on switch to new files.
It's like it's it's just kind of more like Google Docs.
I can just I see all the things.
If I click on the icons folder that I'll go into that icons area.
What they did do and everything up here
does link around.
So notice I don't have a back button or anything.
Don't hit the back button in the browser,
click on the the name of your class will be right here,
and it'll take you back to the files here.
Right.
So if I wanted to move things around and I wanted to like
I want to put this checklist inside of the end file folders,
I can just drag it up there and it'll it'll keep the linking in your class.
So you can just kind of organize things and relabel things.
There are people that exist,
especially very early canvas users
who have access to files inside of here.
If you're teaching like Microsoft or something, you might have templates
for your students so you can organize,
and you can, give permissions
to like single folders or single files that students can download.
In general, we've been training y'all for a long time
to just have it turned off to students.
So your files, any kind of doesn't matter, but if you want to organize it, there's
this new new look and feel you can drag and drop it just a little bit nicer.
That's that's really all it is.
Yeah.
Files,
because I have a lot of files that I have linked to assignments.
So if I change the name of the file in this menu,
will it
then change, like sync up anywhere else that linked that file or do I.
Because now,
right now
I would have to manually go back in to the assignment and re change the link.
So it will be a broken link to the student.
Because I change this one thing,
it shouldn't.
It does it to me all the time.
Let's do a little test retest.
So if I come in here, am I in a real thing?
I don't want to be in a real thing.
Careful.
That was it.
I just closed it.
Let me go here when I close this show, so I'm not poking at it.
Here's a page
that I'm going to ruin for Karen.
And I'm going to link to a file here.
So I do a course link
and we'll change this to files.
And then I'll go to my course files.
And here's all my course files.
There's a PDF. Don't use PDFs.
Here's a link to 30 things you didn't know about Google blah blah blah blah blah.
And I'll hit save.
Let's go to if I click on this or
download it, I should be able to preview it right here in the screen.
Link is working.
I'll come back to this and tell you something else.
That's cool.
Let's go to actually, I'll tell you now,
over here on the left hand side, this is a side note.
We have this tool called Read Speaker, which will, it's
a read aloud for, students with, visually impaired.
It'll read the whole interface of canvas.
Notice right here the icon exists here.
If students see a file like this, a link on a page,
they can click on that read speaker icon.
It'll open up in the read speaker interface
and they can have the document read to them.
This works for Google or for, word documents as well.
So what we often see people do is link their files in the modules.
Please don't do that.
Link it inside a page like I've done here.
If you're going to give them a file because they get more
accessibility out of the the interface.
So we'll go to files.
We'll go to PDFs
I will edit this and rename it
and we'll call it 30 things.
Do make sure you keep the file extension I think that will matter.
And now we've gone from that name to that name.
But go back to modules
or home or go back to the course card update page
and canvas for the link on me.
Here's that old link I click on.
It still works and I want to think of
actually my mistakes.
If I linked.
I give students a to do list, right?
So I create a page created to do this link assignments in there.
And so I change the assignment name to that.
That happens frequently
because it never gets that assignment anymore.
So it should. It's right.
Yeah. We can we can have more of that later.
Yeah we can kind of patch notes fine.
But I just wanted to kind of show the the new files interface.
It doesn't impact us a lot but it just so.
Yeah. So you'll see it looks nicer.
That's, that's that's the main thing to know.
So it's Yeah, it looks cleaner.
I think,
you know, we're already talking about,
we did a update on discussions,
over the last couple semesters with the graded checkpoints and all that,
just for sake of time.
I'm not going to go through
all those things, but I wanted to point out one new feature
that not everybody is aware of.
And so, like, here's
a discussion that has some some posts in it.
Right.
So one thing that you can add to your canvas show which students do not see.
If you go under settings and go to Feature Options,
you can turn on this AI discussion summary.
You might actually really like this.
Tara. So what? This I'm gonna show you.
So you turn it on.
Only you see it. Students do not see this.
Okay, so then if I go back to my discussions,
I'll go back to
that one that has a whopping two posts in it.
A lot, a lot to summarize in here, right?
Why am I not seeing it
start right?
Over on the right.
Oh, yeah. There it is.
They change the interface on me to open summary.
And what you get is,
enter.
You can do the enter areas, the topics you want to summarize or focus on,
but you just hit the summarize with nothing in it
and it'll let you know what the conversation's been about.
Pretty good. Yeah.
And then if you go to
and then
if you want to look up something specific, so there's a topic you're talking about
or a novel or whatever it is, you're, you're talking about at the time,
you can kind of say how many my students are understanding this,
and it's not replacing reading all the posts
and grading all the posts, but it gives you that top level view,
especially midweek while students are still actively posting.
You can go in here and do that summary and say, what are my students talking about
without reading 900 posts, right?
It lets me know, like if I need to recalibrate.
Yeah, and you can use this as a guide. Okay.
This is saying this.
And then you can start scanning the post and see is this.
So people are actually saying you're talking about
or not I'm not going to ever say that this is going to be fully accurate,
but it's there.
I can't like the way that they actually updated this a little bit.
It's harder to see, let's see that there.
But like I said, students don't see that.
So if I go up to the top and we go into student view
and in my opinion, it's kind of like one of those tools,
if students aren't seeing it, just turn it on
because then you can use it or not use it as a secret.
So you can see here I'm in zoom to view and they don't see that. But
these rules, and,
and these are the kind of things I want to see more.
I implemented the smart search.
That's useless.
This gives me that kind of bird's eye view
without having to read everything, which is which is awesome.
So I think it also helps you contextualize before you start grading.
Too sensitive a trend is.
Yeah.
And sometimes
I need to know that even
in my next class, I'm going to show you guys one more thing.
Since we have like two more minutes left
as far as discussions and grading discussions.
So grading discussions in canvas is always been a pain.
And it just is.
I'm not saying this is
like 100% better, but I'm going to show you a couple of things.
So if I come in here this is not a graded discussion.
And this that.
I'm not seeing speed grader.
Graded.
It doesn't matter how many points, it's right
there.
Open in speed grader.
Okay.
What I used to do is I would open up the discussion
and then open up the speed grader another tab.
So I would be in here and you go to
you go to a student's post, I would hit this.
I would hold down the control key and hit Open Speed Grader or I'm on a mac.
So be about command key.
And then I could see the,
discussion here.
Go to that student, grade them, close that,
come back to the thing and kind of open up each student.
So now if I hit this and I hit open and speed grader
and I say opens in a new tab, but it goes to the wrong student.
Yes. Right. Okay.
So what they did is they redid this entire interface.
All right.
We're looking at any particular student.
Here's their posts.
So instead what I'm going to do
is if you click on this full discussion context,
it gives you the entire thread,
but then jumps to that student's posts.
And then you can navigate using the arrows
to each student's post and it'll jump you there.
It's not fast, but it's all there.
Here's the problem I go to the next student
and I have to hit this again.
Click the gear, the settings, open the top,
go to options.
Sort this student list or notes this one.
They're here.
Show replies in context and hit save settings.
So now every time you navigate to a new student, it's
always going to have that context open.
The bad thing about this is it slows down going from
but then I can I can see, I can grade, I click next to the next student,
and then it's going to
load the entire discussion, jump to that student's post.
So you're giving up it's opening
tab two tabs tablet at the tab in favor.
So speed in favor of like I can just do this
in one one place and then I'm not jumping from from place to place.
And it's quite nice.
So just a little side note, it's not like
I wish it was better, but it is what it is.
Yeah, it's definitely faster than it was in the spring.
So hopefully this will.
Yeah it's it's it's not so bad now even this view is always student up.
Yeah I notice that that it's on the wrong student again.
It stops doing that but it seems to be opening in the wrong student.
Let's go back to your discussion and just give it a test here.
Open and speed grader.
No, it's it's working correctly.
Right?
I never I never trust my test shows.
So I figured out but also watch I'm not touching anything now.
And when I go to open and Speed Grader
it automatically opens in the new tab and on the whole the keyboard anymore.
Yeah. So it seems to be working correctly.
Yeah that's fine.
So you can do it that old way.
But I like the new way when one place.
Yeah, yeah, it's not the fastest.
But honestly I kind of like that.
It slows me down a little bit too because it helps you, helps you focus.
I like the highlighting of like, this is the thing I'm looking at.
You navigate step by step. Yeah. Frankly,
I agree on the task.
When you're done, I just I mean
I can see the replies, but there was also a video requirement
for discussion, you know, and maybe the student just didn't submit it.
It's very possible.
I don't know if there's a way to to see like it just shows.
Yeah, actually, I'll show you that since we're here.
Hey, I'm in the discussion thread. Yes.
And you want to verify a student's post.
I can type in their name. Okay.
And you're in that,
and then you can see all the posts.
So I'm just in the discussion.
So that's search at the top is fairly new as well.
Just in the discussion.
So you can type in your student's name I think was Tyler
can type in the student's name.
And then you'll be able to see as that student was.
Oops.
Yeah.
So he's got two posts there in the video. Okay.
So you didn't you didn't do the video required because otherwise.
Are you human?
Yeah. Cool.
No, that's what our department is requiring.
We have some kind of a video of the first week.
It's, it's a good requirement.
And honestly, in my, like, my media classes are now.
And I know, like Matt Mooney in history does this.
Those who've been teaching online
for quite a long time, I do 2 or 3 video assignments
as a, as part of the discussion or a feedback loop or two.
Yeah, I'll do it in the assignment as well.
I asked them to record a video back to just me.
I don't need to, I don't, everyone in the class doesn't need to see them.
Yeah, that's where some people's hangs up.
Hang ups are like, okay, if you have a big issue with this, or
we get high school students who are 14, 16 years old, send the video as a comment
in the speed grader to me, right.
You see it so I can see you and I know that it's you.
But then a few weeks later, I do it again. Yeah.
So I can kind of like, is this their actual person or not kind of thing.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was very helpful.
Effectively.
Yeah. I got there.
Yeah.
That was like I'm doing it.
All right.
Thank you all very much. I'm going to go and stop the recording.