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There are times when your Gradebook might be a rainbow of colors and a variety of icons.  These indicators are meant to assist instructors in immediately identifying the status of assignments across their course.

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This week we will review how to hide unpublished assignment columns to help organize or simplify your Gradebook.    

By default, your Gradebook will show both published and unpublished assignments, discussions, and quizzes.  While students cannot see these unpublished assignments, they clutter the Gradebook with columns that instructors may never use.  

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The default view in the Gradebook is a table with students listed in rows, alphabetically, and columns ordered as they are arranged in the Assignment Index.  Many instructors leave this default view in their courses; however, you might explore adjusting this view based on your personal preferences.

Here are some tips on how to sort and arrange your Gradebook.

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In this series focused on Gradebook tips, tricks, and tools, we’ve spent a lot of time outside the Gradebook looking at related settings within the Assignments and Settings pages.

Now that we’ve covered the initial setup of your Canvas grades, let’s shift into looking at some of the tips and tools that are helpful in performing the actual work of grading.

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Over the last several weeks, we’ve covered a lot of Gradebook setup tasks in various areas of your Canvas courses. Our last Gradebook setup tip is a reminder to make sure to check and update the grading scheme in each of your Canvas courses.

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Like last week’s topic, this week’s grade-related features are also not located in the Gradebook.  Weighted Grades and Dropping Grades are options that are available in Assignment Groups. 

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This series is focused on Gradebook tips, tricks, and tools, but what you may not realize is that the Assignments Index page also contains important gradebook-related features that impact how grades are calculated in your courses.  

We often hear from faculty asking, “Where did these columns at the end of my Gradebook come from?”  The answer: Assignment Groups.

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Do you get emails from students that need you to re-open something?  It can be frustrating because it creates more work for you.  Canvas can help you accept that work with an automatic deduction.  This week, we will show you how you can utilize the automatic deduction option instead of using the “Available until” setting.

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Consider enabling the Missing Submission Policy in your Gradebook settings.  Once enabled, this policy will automatically enter zeros for missed assignments, saving you time and ensuring that your students’ running totals are kept up to date.

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We are happy to announce the release of a new feature in Canvas New Quizzes: the ability to add extra time to a student’s in-progress quiz attempt!

Instructors can now extend the time for students who are actively taking a quiz. This new feature allows you accommodate students who may need extra time without interrupting their workflow or requiring them to take a second quiz attempt. 

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Did you know that Canvas can alert you when a student clicks on a broken link in your course?  These notifications can help you catch and fix broken links quickly.

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In this Quick Tip, we will discuss how instructors can add extra credit in their Canvas courses.  It’s a question the RCID team has received from faculty regularly over the years, so we thought it would be good to share more broadly.

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 In this Quick Tip, we would like to showcase a few options for creating and delivering engaging announcements in your course.

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 In our last Quick Tip, we directed you to a helpful new resource for instructors as they consider course design and learning activities.  

We are happy to promote a series of workshops offered by the ����Թ� State Online team to further support those looking to apply the concepts from the Design, Build, and Teach pathways. 

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Introducing the new Design, Build, Teach Pathways, a series of asynchronous, self-paced Canvas courses that guide you through foundational concepts and best practices for online teaching.  These courses have been designed to accommodate a variety of learning preferences with various options for participation.

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By now, you’ve learned all about how to leverage Canvas Modules, Pages, and the Rich Content Editor (RCE) to improve how course materials are presented and how students view and interact with the content.

In this final installment, we are taking a look at the letter E in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for Editor Tips and Tricks.  We know that working with any online text editor can present some challenges, so we’d like to share the team’s favorite tips and tricks for working with the Rich Content Editor (RCE) more efficiently. 

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Welcome back to the IMPROVE series of Quick Tips.  Today we’re looking at the letter V in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for UniVersal Design Tips.  Okay, yes, we took some liberties with that one, but bear with us -- acronyms are tricky to come up with!

We’ve focused the last few weeks on creating page content via text and various kinds of media.  We’ve touched on accessibility throughout, but we wanted to take a week to highlight universal design strategies that can help make your Canvas content accessible not only for those with differing abilities, but for ALL learners.

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Welcome back to Part 5 of our IMPROVE series. We’re on to the letter O in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for Other Content Types.

Last time, we discussed how to use the Rich Content Editor (RCE) to present textual content within Pages in your Canvas courses. In Part 5, we will expand on embedding other types of content and media.

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Welcome back to Part 4 of our IMPROVE series.  We’re on to the letter R in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for Rich Content Editor (RCE).

So far, we’ve created a modular course structure and begun creating individual Pages to house our content. Now it’s finally time to start adding the text, files, links, images, videos, and more that make up your online course content.  

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Welcome back to Part 3 of our IMPROVE series.  We’re on to the letter P in our IMPROVE acronym, which stands for Pages!

We’ve spent a lot of time talking about Modules so far, and for good reason -- they create the overall structure of the course content.  Now that we have established that structure, we can move into creating the content for those modules.  In this post, we will discuss the purpose of Pages, how to create them, and how to add them to your modules.

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