And what are we doing?
Today's session?
So what we're doing in this session
is, talking about some of the new features and changes.
You know, the show, my face remove,
for rolling over your courses now that the spring shells are available.
This that we do usually do is end of term checklists and a start up time checklist.
We will still do those.
We wanted to be certain to cover a couple of new features
and a couple new things that you might want to turn on for spring.
Now that the spring shells have been created,
and the big thing that we want to do is in the past
couple semesters, because of changes that canvas has made,
we've seen a lot more, issues with zeros populating in the gradebook.
Specifically, if you use the auto series.
So we're going to show you a technique, which is a bunch of clips.
The very
good technique that causes music to happen,
to help, not have those zeros populate.
So and we'll have say start with that.
All right.
So if you have experienced this I am sorry that this has happened to you.
But if you haven't had this, experience happen yet, it could.
So here's what we're recommending.
When you are removing your content
from your current class to your new class or your new semester, we're recommending
that you turn off auto grading in canvas
before you transfer your content over.
And so far, when we've tested this out, we have we received a feedback
that the zeros do not auto populate in the gradebook.
So to do that, what I have here is I have my sandbox.
And as my current class, we're pretending
like this is my current class and I'm going to transfer over.
So I would go into grades in my current class.
It's in the up for me.
It's in the left hand navigation bar at the top.
And once you're in grades,
you're going to go to the top right where the gear is and click on that gear.
You'll see that there are three tabs here at the top.
We are just sticking around this late policies.
Tab on the left hand side.
We can see immediately below that there is a check mark
to automatically apply grades for missing submissions.
So this is a trigger for canvas.
And if this is turned on and a deadline passes,
what happens is it puts the zero in the gradebook.
So I'm going to turn that off for right now in my current class.
And then I have to make sure I've come down to that bottom right hand
corner and click that red apply settings button.
Now that is turned off.
If you want to check it, you can always click the gear again.
See that's turned off and you are good to go.
Plus, you get this little, notice here at the top.
So now I am ready to transfer my content from my current class to my new class.
So this is my empty shell.
That should be, very recognizable to most people.
And what I'm going to do is just transfer it like I normally do.
I'm going to come over here on the right hand side in the upper right hand corner.
And I'm going to say import existing course content.
And then I will click on this.
Select one drop down menu and choose Copy Canvas Course.
Once I'm there you will be able to see your courses.
I'm going to just type in my courses and I'm going to go into my say sandbox.
That's what I'm transferring over.
While I'm
here, I want you to choose whether, I want to import
all content or if I want to import specific content.
One of the things that you can do is if you're transferring courses over,
and maybe you don't want to bring over the announcements,
and a Rob doesn't like to bring over his announcements.
He likes to start fresh.
He can always go
back into his previous semesters if he needs to look at announcement,
possibly what he said that week, and then kind of keep it fresh every semester.
So if that's something that's interesting to you
and you don't want to have to go in and click every single announcement
and then delete it, you can do this one step that's nice and easy
and that's going to be select Select Specific Content.
We will see that in the next window.
So just hold that in your mind for right now.
Now if you are using classic quizzes which is the rocket that is an outline
and you want to go to new quizzes, which is going to be the rocket
icon that's filled in.
That's how you can tell the difference between the two.
So if you want to go with, with the new quizzes,
you can choose as convert to new quizzes button.
And that will take your classic quizzes and it will convert them to new quizzes
at this time, just as a little caveat for you.
Canvas is talking about getting surveys in new quizzes.
They still do not have surveys and new quizzes, or at least not as of yesterday.
And so, soon, soon.
Yes, it is very soon. End quote marks.
So if you do have surveys in your class, do you know that
you're going to have to recreate those?
It's easy to create them again in classic quizzes or you can import only
your quiz, your classic surveys into your show also.
But you wouldn't be able to do it at the same time, right?
It would be two different imports.
Yes, that because I have, two surveys
that I had to I chose this last time.
And then I had to recreate that in the old quizzes.
So if I leave this unchecked, will it still transfer the quizzes
that are already new quizzes as new quizzes? Okay, good.
Yeah, yeah, this is just converting.
You know, you had this classic into new okay.
You could do that manually.
So if you have a mixture of surveys and quizzes you can just copy them all over
classic quizzes and then individually migrate the other ones to.
This is more like a batch option. Yeah.
We're not pushing one way or the other.
These are just options for you.
This is damage of new quizzes compared to classic.
One of the big advantages for instructors,
especially if they have a lot of students that are possibly DSPs students,
or if you have a lot of quizzes in new quizzes, you
you can go into moderate and new quizzes and say, for this student,
I want you to give them time and a half on just once.
You just say it once on all their quizzes.
In classic, you have to go into each individual quiz and moderate that exam.
Yeah, that's one of the things they also have.
Like another thing that's called a stimulus where you can
it will ask you normally your quiz questions go down like this will
and it will make a two column area where you can have like a,
a big drawing or a paragraph or an essay, and then the questions
will be on the other side so that, students know that
question seven through nine are regarding all this information right here.
So those are the two big ones.
And without getting into details about it, it also works smoother with responders.
Yes, yes, new quizzes do work
more smoothly for students, with responders.
All right.
So that's the converting I'm
not going offered at this time because I don't have any quizzes anyway.
And then we if you want you can click on and adjust events and due dates.
Now if you're going from a semester to a semester, this will autofill for you.
Right here we can see that mine,
is, auto filling
because I had done this yesterday and so it just populated this information.
If you, for example, have a course like, for example,
this coming semester, I have a course it's actually going to start at week three.
I would need to change I potentially might need to change this beginning date.
So go look into your classes.
Make sure that this matches use.
And in the past when I've had it start at week three versus week
one of a traditional 16 week semester, this is always been updated for me.
Also, I didn't have to go change it. I'm just giving you a heads up.
You might just look at those dates to make sure everything on the right hand
side change to is appropriate for your class.
If you're going obviously from a 16 week to a 13 week
semester, you are going to have to ship dates.
All right.
So also, if you're going from a fall term to a spring term,
there is a spring break in there.
You're going to have to ship some dates.
These are just what we're going to do.
So we are now ready to import our content.
So I'm just going to click that red import button at the bottom.
And we can see here that I get this red
select content button on the right hand side.
So I'm going to click on this red select content.
By the way you would only have one
I was just testing this earlier to make sure it worked.
And it does.
So yeah.
So we click on that red select content button and we can see whatever I choose.
I want my course settings, my syllabus, my modules.
And I could just come down here and choose any of these things that I want.
So for example, if I for whatever reason,
don't want to include external tools, I'm just wiping those out.
This,
you know, just getting rid of them or I don't want to include my announcements.
I am not going to check those boxes.
You can come in and choose, whatever you want there to.
Let's also, while we're just on this page for just a hot minute,
say that you or like I have these pages that I really don't want to bring
over anymore, anywhere you see a chevron, you can click that chevron.
It will give you more options.
And then you can choose class format or whatever it is
that you want, as long as it's available in your course.
So you choose your content and you can really, get down to that
one level, as we were talking about earlier, or if you have a whole bunch of,
you brought everything into new quizzes,
but you need to to bring over classic quizzes.
Only then you would come in and let me just undo some things.
You would you would have all of these all turned off.
You would go into quizzes, you would choose your classic quiz,
click on those only nothing else is clicked on
and that would be your second import into the course.
And again,
if you want any help with any of this, please reach out to us at the FRC.
We are happy to sit with you on zoom or in our little lab there,
and we will, walk you through it to make sure every second eyes
for you, just to make sure everything's looking good.
And one last quick note
is that if you've already imported your content and you want
and you haven't done a lot of work on your course
this semester, and you need us to reset the course so it goes back down to zero.
Nothing in your course.
Your new course for the future semester.
Again, reach out to us at the FRC.
We can do that for you too.
Okay, so I've selected what
I want to be in my new course that is coming up in the future semester.
I click on Select Content and that's all I have to do.
We can see that this is now running inside a canvas.
This happens to be a very lightweight course.
There's not a lot of material in there.
Also canvas is canvas.
The institution is not being hammered right now, but a lot of people
bring in over their courses,
so it won't take any time at all for this to move over.
Do I have any questions from anybody while we just wait
for this import to come over?
Yeah.
Sharon.
Question.
I think I ask you this every semester.
Is it possible?
How do I stack a class if I have to do the same classes?
So you're, what do you call it?
Cross listing here.
And we're requesting that you wait until, like, maybe
even the day before the semester starts to do that.
And we can help you with that.
We're not going to go into how to do that in this at this time.
It's a little bit more involved.
And most people in here don't, cross lists our courses.
And the reason we're asking you to wait on that is because there are times
where instructors have to give their course to somebody else,
or other instructors come in, and then we have to do cross lists,
and it gets really like trying to detangle spaghetti sometimes.
And so, we are again very happy to help.
We help you with that.
But if you're like very assured, like this is these are definitely my courses.
It's a week before a couple days before classes start.
It doesn't take any, any significant time to do that.
And I'll be happy to help you with that.
Thank you. Yeah.
Of course that off my list.
All right. That one's now scratched off.
Right now it's on Rob's list to talk about.
So not anymore.
All right, so now that this is completed, what I want to make sure I do
is I come back and I want I want those grades.
I want the students to see that if they are late with an assignment
that a zero is entered into the gradebook, I don't want to have to enter those in.
So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to come up here back to grades, just like we did before.
I'm going to click that gear in the upper right hand corner.
I'm going to click this little button. And I always give them zeros.
If you don't get it in, you're not earning any points at 0%.
And then go ahead and click on Apply Settings.
That is for the future class.
Being that I want to make sure that all, especially if I'm like
transferring content right now, I also want my class
that I'm teaching right now to record zeros.
I happen to still be in my current class.
My Say sandbox is my current class again, I'm going to come up to that gear.
I'm going to do this same exact thing.
I'm going to click that little box and I'm going to click on that apply settings.
Don't forget to apply settings down there at the bottom,
especially if you have your, your screen come down like a little bit.
You won't see the apply settings, right.
So you might have to move it up so you can see that,
one last thing I want
to let you know is if you are transferring content,
we recommend, during a current semester,
like I transferred my content earlier courses are available.
Your empty shells are available for you to move content into right now.
Earlier, a couple days ago, I moved my content
from my current class into my future class,
but I made sure that I did not do it on the day that my assignments are due.
As I said, this right here is a trigger
and that triggers the grades to be marked as zeros.
And if I did it at Sunday 9 p.m., which is when my classes are due,
or if this was turned off during that, during that period of time.
Sunday 9 p.m.
that trigger is not turned on for my current class,
so we recommend
if you are transferring information and you are wanting to turn this off,
don't do it during a time your assignments are due okay.
Questions?
Clear as mud.
Awesome. Yeah.
Yes, and I have more questions for the future about processing classes.
Don't. Yeah.
Just don't do it, okay? Yeah.
All right.
I'm going to let Karen take over the next part.
That was.
I didn't do this.
On your information.
Okay, I recommend against it, but it's a philosophy.
Philosophical choice, in my opinion.
I use it on the ability to process my classes,
and I really keep to the same section. But.
Either way.
Okay, so there's four things I'd like to show you.
And the first thing is managing your course.
Navigation links.
And as you all know
this is the course navigation over here on the left hand side at the far left.
This is the global navigation, the course navigation.
You know, you can make changes per course if you need to or want to.
Let me show you how you make changes.
You know, you scroll down and what we do is we go to settings
and then we're
going to go to the navigation tab.
And what we're able to do within here you can see this one
column in the center has a top area and a bottom area.
The items at the top of the column
are things that can be seen by all users.
And the things of course, at the bottom are things that are hidden
from students and, any other users?
Not not the instructor. So.
But why you might want to and probably want to, hide
some of these items would be, let's say, your assignments,
your discussions, your pages, your files, your quizzes, those items,
we suggest that you put those within the modules.
Okay.
What I think of this as those different items over here
on the left hand side, if I had my files navigation available
to students, then they could go in and they could look through all my files.
I want to keep a bit of control
within my class of
what people are seeing and what they can access.
And so what I'll do is I'll add those items directly to the different modules.
And so what I would do to to remove
these from students view is here we are in navigation,
I would come up here to assignments and I can disable these different items.
And it just moves it to the bottom.
So it's not taking away you as the instructor can see it,
but it takes away from the student view when you just allow them
to access these items in a different way.
Okay.
Once again, it's very easy to just click on three dots
and you disable those items.
Okay?
So once you go through and the other thing you can do
is you can also click and drag.
If you wanted to move the order of these different things.
And you need to also remember to click on save to keep this here.
Now the reason we
wanted to remind
instructors again, because we know people have been making new courses.
You're updating things, sometimes you have things turned on,
and then later you realize you left,
all your quizzes available to be seen,
and then students are going in and looking through future items.
So those are the few things we suggest you have hidden.
But then it's up to you what you want to try to do.
But we want to keep things narrowed down, student friendly and organized.
Basically.
The other thing that I want to show you how to do is how to validate your links
and the links within your pages and in your discussions, your announcements.
A lot of us, we copy our content over from a previous semester.
When we do bring it over, sometimes the links we're using,
you know, if we don't own them, whoever does owner may make a change.
And so then you're expecting this week's links in my page
to be available to students.
And then they come in and they're telling me, you know,
things aren't working on a certain page,
what you can do to avoid that.
And once again, we're going to go to the settings area.
So what you can do is you can
click on the validate links in content.
And when we do that what it's going to do.
Let me go ahead and hit restart link validation
I had done this earlier and that's why we're seeing this here.
So usually you'll come in and there won't be anything listed here.
And you just click on the restart link.
Validation.
It doesn't take very long to run.
If you have a large class with a lot of links, of course
it's going to take longer than this little small class will.
But what it's going to do, it's going to show you the broken links
in my published pages and also my unpublished pages.
Not just the pages, but the assignments and anything it has rich content
editor okay, and so what it's telling me here.
Do you have a question? Question that,
does it
only show up as a broken leg if it's a form of war era?
No, no it do is other errors.
Hold on. This will look up.
For example, if I had link to an article on a website
and that no longer exists and it just reverts back to the home page
of the website, I'm guessing it wouldn't show up as an error, right?
I think it may be that they're redirecting the link.
Probably not. Yeah, but the link redirect it.
Well, yeah. Okay.
So for a redirect, it depends on the website and how they've done it.
Yeah.
It's still, it's a I was going to say like this probably catches like 90%
of your broken like truly links.
But it's there's the certain things that it's just not going to be able to detect.
And if you're using third party tools like McGraw-Hill, I will make that a link.
It just doesn't know.
Okay, yes, I can get to where it's going and that's where it can end.
Right?
So if the content is gone or they change the content
issue in our
search guides, the link validator basically can show this.
Share this one page from the canvas help that gives you
a little background would know it's looking at it earlier,
it did have a list of different errors that that showed.
So yeah. And I'll send that to you.
And like the old canvas tutorials,
they just put up a message on each page, says this.
This tutorial is no longer the current version,
so it still links to the old version.
The validator says yes, this is valid.
Yeah, because that link is valid, right?
Content isn't now right?
Okay.
So if I look at here I can see there's two different pages that have problems.
So the validate links.
And course this one has the erased pages page.
And this is the sign up for FRC Canvas Studio.
And it has a broken link on it.
So what I can do is I can go directly to the page.
And offhand I know which these are.
But when you come in here, you know, it's a new semester.
You look at this, everything looks fine and nothing really is the problem.
Or you don't see something right away.
Maps too many.
So if I go directly to the page here or the the link,
if I click on here, I can see with this, this error was
close this you noticed up at the top.
It flashed real quick that this page no longer exists.
So maybe you're updating your class, you're making new pages,
and removing some or planning to remove some.
If you have a page.
It was linked that is no longer available
that will show up in the search.
And then also there's another one in here.
Too many pages.
Okay.
So within here.
So that that was the first one that this was the erase page.
But the neat one was this one that showed up.
Oh on here I am again.
You had to go into this three.
Yes. Correct.
Correct.
So pages let me go home
three sign up for seeking of a studio.
Actually let me go back
to where I should have gone.
So I know I know that's what I get for taking over.
Go one more tab over one more tab here
placement.
And just go to the settings and go into the
and do it again.
So settings.
Validate over here backseat drivers.
And so over here now this is the page.
This is the link.
If I click on it
what's going to come up I'll see I didn't even plan to do this one.
So within here if I go through I would find a link.
And so
you see here
as sometimes canvas does say that the link is broken and it's not broken
and you just need to put eyes on it.
Right.
I know in this one there's one is broken, which is the FRC page.
And I'm see I have to change the link.
You fix that yesterday okay.
That's, that's the problem with that.
But what is nice you run the validator, it will give you that list.
It'll take you to the link.
And then like I was saying, sometimes, you know you're shown,
but sometimes you have to click on it and figure out what's going on.
Usually it is a link that was broken,
you know, removed by you
or by whoever initially posted it.
It takes it takes a little bit of time depending on what,
how many links you have on the page.
But I usually just go to the page and I'll test all the links on that page,
because sometimes also there's a, there's a way
that you can click on something and then there's a broken link next to it.
So the link is working, but the secondary little link is broken
because of how you did it.
And then you can kind of visually see that when you click on it.
And that way you can kind of go into the code
and just take out those links and really get it.
And then you're you're good.
Okay.
Now I'll, I'll share those links with everybody about
the help from canvas.
But the third item I wanted to mention to you, some of you may have heard,
some of you may have attended the training on the,
FRC canvas studio
show that we have now that you can complete.
You open this up.
So we have a training.
We have training videos.
So if you come to the SPK,
Edu, FRC, this is our website.
And if you come down here to training videos, you'll see up here
at the very top, the second and third videos.
These are the ones we did on Canvas Studio.
Now we don't have time to go over
Canvas Studio right now, but what Canvas Studio is used for?
It's used to create and share video content with your students.
Students can also make videos to share with with you.
Any other students?
The benefits of Canvas Studio
mainly would be, they're automatically captioned.
If you record a video using K in the studio, you and students, it would.
It would be captioned.
But then what is really good is it removes
the ads from YouTube videos.
And so there's all these cool things about Canvas Studio, I suggest,
and we can send the link to the class to you to complete.
But and you can also get flex hours.
But the main thing we want you to do for this session
is let me go over here to the left hand side.
We want you to add an item in the navigation.
And if you click on settings.
And if we go to Feature Options
and under Feature Options I believe it's done.
At the bottom you'll see this YouTube Ta studio content migration.
So if in your class you have, you're using YouTube videos that you've an event
embedded into patient pages
or within, anywhere you have the rich text editor,
if you have videos embedded,
what you are able to do when you come here.
So we're in feature options.
We want to first enable
this.
And so what we do will click this little red x and we going to enable it.
And once we enable it let me refresh this.
You're going to see over in the left hand column you have this YouTube migration.
Okay.
Let me go back to the home page.
And I have this
page here.
And you'll see I simply have a few embedded videos.
And notice I also have a link to a video down here at the bottom.
But you've probably noticed your students have noticed
when they come in here to watch your videos.
They can be watching it, but if they stop, they're hit
with a number of different ads, and you don't have any control over
any of these ads that are being, displayed to students.
And so in the past, when we've embedded
YouTube links in canvas, the ads were stripped.
Not anymore.
So they are showing up. And,
the only way you can strip
the ads off the YouTube embedded videos
is to use this,
YouTube migration
tool from, Studio Canvas Studio.
So we have it, you embed it or you add it, I should say,
and you have the different YouTube videos in your class.
What you're now going to do is simply click on YouTube migration tool.
And once you do that, no, you contact the skin again.
So if I did this before with some videos and then I put more videos,
you want to come in here and click skiing again
going to hang tight do things a lot right.
If you leave this on in your class, students don't see this link
so you don't have to go back and turn it off.
If you don't want to.
The other thing is, with future videos, you're going to want to use
if you're embedding a, video and do it into a page or,
discussion or assignment,
you want to make sure to use that the Canvas studio method
and then keep the same save time and keep the video ads off the video.
Okay.
So we ran the scan course.
Remember when we first came in here
because I had previously scanned and fixed the videos.
So you need to remember to scan the course again.
It looked good.
But you know, click scan again just to make sure it goes through.
It tells me the page that has the different.
It has two videos on it and I can click review.
And so this is showing me the two videos that have ads
to convert them to be in canvas.
Without the ads, all I have to do is click,
convert.
It's not going to take very long.
It's converting is simply going to say converted.
And this is at the time of having to go through in re embedded.
Right. You do have to do it per class
and you have to click the the convert for each video.
But it's like a one time
deal because once you roll it over, the next semester will be different.
Right. So there's two on this page.
So I couldn't just make one click and have them both run.
I have to run.
Run through both of them and click convert.
It's probably some programing reason why you can't do them all at once
would be nice. So.
So once we do this,
what you're going to see once we close this.
Conversion converting
okay. So converted.
And so then I'm going to close this.
And I can see I get the little checkmark saying all was converted.
If I go back to that page.
You will see in here
the images of the videos that are a little bit bigger. You.
Another indicator
that this has been converted is you have the rounded corners on here.
But you can see when I start playing this and then I pause it,
I'm not being hit with any videos in here.
And I put this in just as a reminder that if you have links to videos,
those aren't fixed this way.
You have to embed.
I would have to embed this video and then run it through the my,
you know, the converter here.
The YouTube icon also doesn't work
as a link anymore, so it helps keep students here.
I have a question about the captioning.
Yeah. What do you do?
This is the captioning from YouTube now or is it a new captioning?
No, it's from YouTube. Okay, good.
Yeah, yeah.
But when you actually create the video,
if you in Canvas Studio in general, if you're embedding a YouTube
video through canvas video, it's using YouTube captions.
If you record a new video or you upload the entire video,
it's going to use the canvas captions. Okay.
Okay.
So the last thing I have to show you, I know many of us use the lockdown
browser and many of us,
copy your content from one semester to another,
and we're including quizzes that have the lockdown browser on them.
This is fine to do.
You copy it over, but there's one thing you need to remember.
You have to remember.
This is not going to work here. You know it.
Will you have everything turned on?
It will say that, it's using respond.
It's, lockdown browser monitor if you want it.
But when students go in to click on it,
it's not going to work unless you do this.
So you've copied your content, you have copied
quizzes that have locked down browser
or locked down browser and monitor already on them
what you want to remember to do is click on this Lockdown browser link.
You click on it and if you look real quick up
here at the top, what it does, it runs through. And
I don't see it on there
now, but it tells you that it has run
what needed to be run to make the lockdown browser work
okay, because you usually get and it was usually more prominent,
but it will tell you that it's running walk down browser to make sure.
Okay.
Because it might be because you didn't reset it from yesterday.
It'll have a little pop up message, but this lets you know,
hey, all your stuff is ready to go.
Yeah, and it's all worked.
It closed the window. Just just going in there, going
to reactivates everything for the entire semester.
Right.
Okay. So
now we're up to Rob.
Yeah,
yeah.
Okay.
Do you say or do coverage?
Half of my stuff. So. Yeah, you do that.
You. Thank you.
Jim, did you open myself a new tab or are they still buried in here?
Do you open the things I say?
You know, I didn't know I never opened anything.
Oh, cool.
But there there was a page. But.
No, you said, I am them to you.
Oh, you did know that you can go into mail or click
or you don't mind.
Let's check.
Let's check. Says mail already?
Yes. Wow.
You tease.
Didn't do okay.
And you do.
People.
Yeah. Okay.
So the first thing I want to do.
Remind you really quick.
Well, for show you I guess is one of the tools that we recommend
that you run also after you copy your class.
So you've got the link validator and the YouTube migration tool.
The other thing that we have, at our school is available
and I'll pull this up a little bit is as Pope tech accessibility.
So this is the full course accessibility checker,
even if you're not going to do anything with it right now.
I would suggest that you run it.
If you're going to make a bunch of changes between now
and, say, January, run it in January.
But if you at least if you run it now, it's run once.
And what this does when you click on the post hope tech accessibility,
it'll pop up very quickly because it's Friday.
There we go.
And you're going to hit this scan button up here at the top.
After you hit scan it could take an hour.
It could take ten hours.
It could take 24 hours to run this.
It depends on which way the wind is blowing.
If it's a Friday,
if there's a lot of people running in it at the time, we don't really know.
But it takes a while to run it.
So that's why we say it just kind of like get in the habit.
After you copy over your shop for the next semester, just go ahead and run this.
And then when you have time or you come in for training
or you're talking somewhere, you go, oh,
I should check that page for accessibility.
It's already run in your in your, course.
And you can see if you have any errors in your class or if there's alerts.
Errors.
The X's are the things you have to really fix right now.
And alerts are maybes or you have to take a look at that later.
If you click on the number, it'll show you where you have these issues
and you can click on the thing, it'll take you to that thing and fix it.
We have a whole training on how to use this tool.
All I'm suggesting right now is you click on it
and then hit that scan at the top.
So that way you're ready to go.
If you're down to use it, great.
If you've used other tools
like this, it's very similar, but just clicking on it, hitting scan.
And that way you're kind of ready to go if, if
and when you want to go into your checker.
Okay.
Making sure not skipping anything.
Which enhances okay.
Beside
the other tool I want to encourage you to check out
is the new what it lists, canvas calls,
assignment enhancements.
It's not actually changing any of your assignments.
It's not actually enhancing your incitements.
Because we love marketing speak. Great.
But here's an assignment I have for a student.
Let me go into student view.
This is just a demo demo assignment.
There's no instructions in here. Right.
And what the student would see is across the top, the due
date, the points, what they're doing, what kind of file types are allowed,
and then they hit start assignment and the directions would be down here.
They hit start assignment.
And then they have these little tabs where they can if depending on what you're
asking them to do, they have the tabs that they can turn anything.
And then they hit submit assignment at the bottom.
Well, kind of one of the issues with this workflow
is if there's a lot of instructions here, students scroll down
and then the start assignment button is back at the top
right.
I'm a UX designer.
That bugs the hell out of me.
Right.
So let me show you what this new tool looks like.
So I'm gonna go ahead and leave Student View and I'll show you how to turn it on.
I don't recommend necessarily turning it on this semester, though.
You could, because we don't want to confuse our students.
If we don't have to.
I take joy out of confusing my students so I've turned it on this semester,
and I haven't had any issues with it at all.
And when you go to feature options
and near the top is a, item, it has an assignment enhancements.
Just turn that on and it's going to activate the new way that
students view an assignment.
If you want part of
part of this is submission stickers.
Submission stickers simply adds in the speed grader
a little area where you can add a sticker like a happy face or a star or something.
If you really wanted to do that, I.
You don't have to turn both of them on. You can leave that off.
It just gives you the option of doing it.
You cannot add custom stickers or anything like that.
Sorry, you can't make your own fun stickers.
And then I'm in there.
So I find it less useful because of that.
But the features there.
So now that we've got the assignment enhancements
on, I'm going to go to home and back into that assignment.
And I purposely chose
one that didn't have any instruction so you could see the difference.
Widen it. Change.
Did I need to
oh I have to go into the view student yeah
there you go.
Like so you can see it's very different looking now right.
So you'll still have the due date and things at the top.
The one of the other differences is if you allow different attempts.
So if you're having them write something and then they go
and they resubmit something, right now students can't see their attempts.
Or if they turn in multiple files and they turn in two files
and they turn a third.
When they turn in that third one, they go, all my files are gone,
and they turn into it again with all three files.
They can actually see their own attempts here, so they can see
all the versions, that they've turned in so far.
It'll give them the in the, it's due dates and things here.
I don't have a due date for this assignment,
so it's not showing at the moment.
The details will just be the instructions so they can collapse it.
I'm going to make this window a little smaller,
but I'll show you a different one.
If you check this out, I can scroll up and down the assignment.
Notice I haven't hit start assignment yet.
There is no start assignment button.
They just see the instructions how to turn it in
and then they hit submit assignment.
So we're actually removing steps of the process.
That just makes the process a little more confusing for students.
I'm going to show you an example
of this in my life class.
Oops.
Let me leave student view first before canvas screams at me.
And for this class, I'm actually
using canvas Studio, and having students submit a video.
So instead, I'll show you the settings of this Tuesday.
You can get an idea of it, but instead of doing a written assignment
for one of their assignments, here we have a written response.
And then I have a video response.
So for the video response,
instead of having the attachment all they're doing is recording a video.
So if I go to the video response and I'll go into student view,
they see the attempt,
the instructions, I made a video for them
to watch as well, and then they just simply have the options.
Do you want to record media or upload media?
Big chunky buttons, no tabs to click on.
Nothing's hit and they record it.
They hit submit assignment.
In contrast, I'll go into modules
and go down to that written assignment that I have here,
still in student view.
They see the instructions, they scroll down, see
notice have a submit button down here at the bottom is staying put.
And then down here they can upload their file.
Right.
And then the buttons are just a little bit bigger.
I'm working with I.T to figure out why the Google Drive icon isn't showing up,
but whatever, I just I like this better than those little tiny tabs.
We're not removing one or the other right now.
Canvas doesn't have, a timeline
when they're going to force this over right now, but it's just there
if you want to turn it on.
I just if you turn it on, I encourage you to do it before the semester starts.
The last thing I would recommend.
Any questions on that?
Again, it's not changing any functionality.
It's not changing anything else if you want to do a video assignment.
So I told you I'd show you this where they're just recording a video.
When you set up the assignment itself,
if you turn on file uploads, they will have the option
of turning in a file or a canvas studio video.
But if you do media recordings with the assignment enhancements turned
on, the only option they will have is Canvas Studio.
So if it's a Canvas Studio assignment,
I would choose that over the file uploads just to make it not confusing.
They can still upload and mp4 so they record on their phone or something
else they can do that.
Okay,
the last thing that I would recommend that you do,
and this one is completely optional because it really depends
on how your class is set up.
Is under settings, you can make your syllabus public.
So if I go to settings and I go to visibility, it says course
I'm going to change that to public.
Turn on customize.
I'm hesitating because I'm looking to see which class I'm in.
I'm in my live class, and I would leave the syllabus set
to public and turn the public.
I turn this files to course,
so only my students have access to course files.
But then everybody who has the link to the syllabus is now public.
Okay.
There's a couple of caveats to this. One.
You have to make sure your syllabus is up to date
to no one can search and find your syllabus.
They have to have the link.
So you're going to give them that link when you make it public
make sure
you hit update course details I'm not going to this is my live class.
What you would then do is if you turn this on public
is you'd go to your syllabus page and simply grab this link at the top.
And then when you get it to somebody else, or put it in your banner
horse information, that link will work
if your course is published.
Okay.
So if you want to put this like in your banner nine class
for students, springs for spring and students can see your syllabus.
What I would what I do is I turn I make sure
all my modules are unpublished
and I,
publish the course.
So that way if students who enroll go into my class,
the only thing they can see is the home page in the syllabus
and then have everything make sure everything is locked down,
and then you can put that link into and I'll show you
where you put it into your course information in banner
and then students who are looking for classes can look at your syllabus page
and see if there's
see what the course is
about before they really, sign up.
Make sense?
Good questions.
So once you've made that public, you publish your class.
I kind of put some notes here real quick.
So you make it
publicly viewed unpublished.
All your modules makes your syllabus is up to date.
Change your dates and things like that, then publish your course.
And then what you're going to do is come in to this isn't going to work.
Grades come into I'm logged in as say,
that's okay, I got some management resources all of that okay.
Perfect.
So you can come in to your my SPC edu
go to faculty resources and go down to class management.
On the class management page.
One of the options is edit important section information in banner nine.
Because all of these companies hate us, they change the name of that to syllabus.
So when you go into banner nine you might say the word syllabus.
It's much more than that.
It's not just that in banner eight we call this the important section information.
I'm going to go ahead and click on that link and it'll take you into
my banner okay.
And anything that's
put in in the page I'm about to show you
will show up in a link
on the area
where students actually are searching and registering for classes.
So then you would select your term.
I'll go ahead and go to spring.
Select the course you want to update your information for.
And here is your syllabus data.
Your important section information.
And then what I would do is paste in that link to my syllabus right there.
You can put other
tools inside of here such as for technical requirements
for all my classes going forward, especially with the new AI browsers
and stuff, I'm going to be requiring a lot more recording and video
for my students, so I'm going to put that in my technical requirements
so you can put anything that pertains to your class in here.
If you put links inside these other areas,
those links will show up as text, but they won't be clickable.
The only clickable link is here.
It doesn't have to be your canvas syllabus.
If you have a Google page explaining your class,
or if I do a website or some like that, or appoint a place on our website
that you want to point to, you can do that as well.
So these are just areas that you can add information to.
If you don't put in the learning objectives,
it just won't show up on that part. For the for the students.
So you can do this as you wish.
Once you fill in whatever you want, go ahead and hit submit.
I've heard a mixed story now from the banner folks
in banner eight from semester semester.
When this got rolled over,
it did not carry over any information.
I asked banner nine.
I asked banner people about this is banner nine.
They said it does not copy over it copied over my stuff
from last semester, so I'm not saying it does yet.
This is our first semester using banner nine,
but I'm getting the impression that this will roll over from semester to semester.
So if you do this, you want to make sure that you're going back and checking
and you can just in a new sprint spring semester come in, just hit reset.
It'll wipe it all out and you can put any new information in there.
And so a third tip to check this
because yeah, our class, some of our sections of library
one and one copied over some stuff, some random stuff
if that's like to of course revisions ago.
Yeah.
So if you didn't,
if you didn't hear Alan just saying they, they saw in there isn't it.
It copied over from who knows when.
So definitely go in and check it this semester
and see what everything is in here.
Students can see literally right now.
And I think besides
the last thing which is about copying or the the cross listing classes
that say I already talked about, I think that kind of covers
everything I wanted to show.
Yeah, let me
for the syllabus,
is it recommended that we do that, that
we post that information publicly? No.
Okay.
It's I think I think it's recommended,
at least from our point of view, is that this information,
the more information you give students, the better.
So it doesn't have to be in your canvas syllabus.
So if you want to take that information
and put it in a Google doc and link to it there, that's fine.
If you want to put more information in here, you can do it there.
Keep in mind
these boxes are very small,
so you're not going to put in all your course information in here.
So whether that links somewhere else or where else.
So the the question is should you publish your make your syllabus public in canvas.
That is completely up to you.
I think it's a very good practice
to get as much information to the student as possible,
whether that's through the canvas syllabus or through a different page.
Is that fair to say? Ellen.
Yeah. So I recommend that you
put something in here and link to somewhere.
You don't necessarily have to do it in canvas.
Thank you. Yep.
And we cover more of that in detail in the,
Start or the end of end of term checklist kind of thing?
Yeah.
How are we doing on time? Perfect.
Any other questions?
Comments?
Anyone want to see anything else again?
Well good.
All right.
It's a sunny day in Santa Barbara.
Go find some candy out there.
Happy Halloween.
Thanks for joining us on this Friday.
In the middle of the day
and a wonderful weekend.