13:01:27 From mwaskiewicz to Everyone: I am just trying to think of something to type... 13:01:31 From mwaskiewicz to Everyone: :) 13:01:38 From dnaybor to Everyone: I really like Canvas and am using everything I need already 13:02:43 From Karen Edwards to Everyone: My only problem is getting my students into canvas/zoom correctly 13:03:30 From Karen Edwards to Everyone: I can tell them how-they just don’t do it right 13:04:46 From Mackenzie Davison (she/her) to Everyone: subtitles work 13:05:19 From Rebecca Romeo to Everyone: Should we be recording? 13:05:38 From Karen Edwards to Everyone: My desire is for incoming students to be required to learn the skills they need for zoom etc. 13:06:03 From Calli Shelton to Everyone: Say more, Karen? 13:09:45 From Eric Holmlund to Everyone: Does Nicholas require us to use the Canvas Gradebook, or do this and specifically use the weighted grade format? (In other words, can we use Canvas Gradebook and NOT choose weighted format?) 13:10:18 From Rebecca Romeo to Everyone: You can set it up so unsubmitted assignments automatically get a zero. 13:10:28 From Eric Holmlund to Everyone: Or is it the faculty who passed this - whichever the authority - the point is Canvas mandate or Canvas weighted mandate? 13:11:36 From Nicholas Hunt-Bull to Everyone: Provost says: you are required to represent all assignments in the gradebook, you are not required to use weighted grading. you could just post the five grades from assignments and then do your calculations on paper or in excel. that is allowed...although it does not make a lot of sense. 13:12:00 From Justin Waskiewicz to Everyone: Something I discovered while doing assessment this year is that the Canvas gradebook disappears shortly after the semester is over, so you need to copy and paste that data into excel at the end of the semester if you ever want to be able to look over how students did on different assignments and grade components 13:12:01 From Nicholas Hunt-Bull to Everyone: from experience, IF you are using the grade book, then you REALLY want to use the weighting to make it more flexible 13:12:02 From Rebecca Romeo to Everyone: It can also automatically do a grade reduction for late submissions. 13:12:13 From Eric Holmlund to Everyone: Thanks. I agree with weighting, just wanted clarification. 13:12:37 From mwaskiewicz to Everyone: Rebi, how does that work? Neat! 13:13:10 From Calli Shelton to Everyone: Justin, you always have access to the grade data in a concluded course. Freb or I can show you how to find that. 13:13:26 From dnaybor to Everyone: Weighting helped me a lot last semester when I had 30% as in class assignments weight and had to add or subtract some assignments as I realized I needed another one or wanted to eliminate an assignment because we were running behind. 13:13:27 From Randall Swanson to Everyone: Justin, I learned how to recapture the grades from previous courses. I can show you that. 13:13:58 From Jorie Favreau to Everyone: Justin et al. yes, the gradebook disappears from view but you can ask IT to make it visible again. given how important the gradebook is to course and program assessment, I wonder if we can keep all gradebooks visible even after the semester ends. 13:14:34 From Calli Shelton to Everyone: You don't need IT to make the gradebook visible in a concluded course. You have the power! 13:14:45 From Kendra Ormerod to Everyone: Oh, please tell us how Calli! 13:15:02 From Calli Shelton to Everyone: I'll put it in tomorrow's newsletter. 13:16:07 From Melanie Johnson to Everyone: To see previous semesters, go to the gradebook for the concluded course, hover in the space next to Student Name in the first column and three dots will pop up. Choose Show-->Concluded Enrollments. 13:16:46 From Kendra Ormerod to Everyone: Well I only know that to show us individual students, not the whole roster? 13:18:05 From Rebecca Romeo to Everyone: Go to grades - click the gear for settings on the far right 13:19:16 From Melanie Johnson to Everyone: Kendra, it should bring in the whole roster for the course. 13:19:18 From Rebecca Romeo to Everyone: Thanks for updating that. 13:20:26 From Jorie Favreau to Everyone: oh right! I forgot, IT showed me how but they didn't need to. Sorry!! 13:20:41 From Rebecca Romeo to Everyone: You used to have to set them up first, but now they can be added after. You can also move assignments from one category to another if you make an error. 13:20:50 From Kendra Ormerod to Everyone: Woo hoo! That's great. Thanks. 13:21:16 From Nicholas Hunt-Bull to Everyone: thanks Rebi! 13:22:02 From Rebecca Romeo to Everyone: Is there a best practice for using numbers versus letter grades? 13:22:06 From Justin Waskiewicz to Everyone: For what it's worth, I'm generally a Canvas curmudgeon, but I did find weighting pretty helpful and not too hard to figure out. Just have to be a little careful to understand exactly what it's doing. 13:25:13 From Karen Edwards to Everyone: Is there a way to have a 2 part question so 2 answers when you select numerical answer 13:25:56 From dnaybor to Everyone: Yes, Karen I think there is 13:27:05 From Kendra Ormerod to Everyone: When will classic quizzes go away? And will that mean old quizzes we reuse/tweak will disappear? 13:27:20 From Kendra Ormerod to Everyone: thanks 13:31:00 From Eric Holmlund to Everyone: What was wrong with Classic Quizzes and will some functionality be rolled into new quizzes 13:32:10 From Karen Edwards to Everyone: I have a hard time respecting Canvas as they have no test category. Everything is a quiz. Confuses the students 13:32:34 From Calli Shelton to Everyone: I agree, Karen...it's bad terminology and not intuitive. 13:33:13 From Rebecca Romeo to Everyone: Weighted assignments fixes that. 13:34:38 From Karen Edwards to Everyone: Oh I can work around it but thats not my point. It is a LMS so should allow for things we do all the time 13:35:04 From Rebecca Romeo to Everyone: Agreed. 13:36:26 From Karen Edwards to Everyone: Back to my first point! Haha 13:38:30 From Rebecca Romeo to Everyone: When we created the home page for the Masters template, we used buttons, but now we are using modules for the home page, correct? I thought we were asked to do that for student consistency. 13:39:04 From Nicholas Hunt-Bull to Everyone: the basic set up of every course should be modules, yes 13:39:31 From Nicholas Hunt-Bull to Everyone: but you could also provide a page with buttons as an alternative! 13:39:32 From Melanie Johnson to Everyone: Buttons and tables often look much different on a cell phone than a computer. I recommend checking it out in the canvas student app so you can see what it looks like for students. 13:41:26 From DonK to Everyone: Create a Page and then insert it into the Module. 13:42:07 From Melanie Johnson to Everyone: My understanding was we are required to use Modules as the Home Page so it will be consistent for students between classes. 13:42:17 From Jorie Favreau to Everyone: give me visuals any day! I tell the students just to bookmark the page they prefer , making it the page they say first. 13:42:35 From Nicholas Hunt-Bull to Everyone: Sorry, have to drop out of this meeting for my next one 13:42:39 From Nicholas Hunt-Bull to Everyone: bye 13:42:52 From Jorie Favreau to Everyone: my point being "let the student pick by bookmarking" 13:43:52 From Calli Shelton to Everyone: FYI there have been a few new features added to Canvas lately - Chat, SCORM, Item Banks, Badges, etc. Check Settings - Navigation to ensure things you're not using are in the lower section so they don't show to students and confuse them. 13:45:58 From Janet Mihuc to Everyone: Freb, can you send us the link to that help page for students having trouble with Zoom? 13:46:26 From Craig Milewski to Everyone: I did not know modules washome page default. I thought we had the option of making homepage the syllabus. 13:46:29 From Karen Edwards to Everyone: I am happy to know where to send them-Compass. I also took screen shots to put in my info 13:47:48 From Janet Mihuc to Everyone: Hmm, where is canvas compass, I see campus help but nothing that says compass 13:47:51 From Karen Edwards to Everyone: 2 hours 13:48:16 From Rebecca Romeo to Everyone: It's for students only. 13:49:35 From Melanie Johnson to Everyone: Where is Canvas Compass? 13:51:50 From Karen Edwards to Everyone: Maybe using the technology tools could be a sub part of General Ed and used in most freshman classes so they learn it, use, love it. 13:52:21 From Kendra Ormerod to Everyone: Good point, Janet 13:52:36 From Melanie Johnson to Everyone: I got a couple of questions from students when I published, so they apparently can see? 13:53:06 From Kendra Ormerod to Everyone: Re: dates of courses - my course dates were super off but also uneditable, and Nolan adjusted them for me 13:53:11 From DonK to Everyone: I've had students browsing my Canvas courses already. 13:53:42 From Rebecca Romeo to Everyone: When I imported last semester files from one course, I made sure to revise the start date. 13:54:22 From Karen Edwards to Everyone: Don’t do it!!! 13:54:22 From Kendra Ormerod to Everyone: I love importing 13:54:25 From Marlyse Waskiewicz to Everyone: What about not having to publish courses that start mid-semester until later on.... I don't like to confuse them more... 13:54:42 From Rebecca Romeo to Everyone: Don't forget to check links. 13:55:14 From Calli Shelton to Everyone: Sorry...my understanding is that students are enrolled in, and able to access, courses approximately one week prior to the start of classes. 13:56:13 From Catherine Lalonde to Everyone: Heading to another meeting - thank you, Freb - and to all who participated today! :)