In exploring all the different ways we can customize our Canvas courses, one of the options that many of you have expressed interest in is the idea of adding buttons (or tiles) to your course home page to help your students navigate your course.
Well, here’s any easy way you can create your own, custom-made, buttons quickly and easily.
You need help. But, who do you call?
Especially now that we’re all working remotely, when you need help, it’s not always clear whom to contact. So, here are some guidelines that might help.
Given the circumstances of what’s been happening around the world within the last few weeks, it’s safe to assume that what follows on this page is subject to change. That said, this is one of the resources available to you as you begin preparing to teach your classes completely on line beginning March 30th.
Update any instructions around participation, assignments/deadlines, and other topics.
Submit a Course Plan for Instructional Continuity for each class you teach. The university must have this document for accreditation and other compliance purposes.
Are you looking for new and innovative ways to help your students understand the complexity of the human body?
Do you want to upgrade the outdated images in your PowerPoint slideshows with 3D images?
The brand new Blausen Medical Collection may be just the thing you need!
Do you ever have guest lecturers who can’t make it to campus, or want to conduct online interviews or “virtual office hours”?
Do you need to record a lecture or short video that you can share with students later on? Is inclement weather preventing you (or your students) from coming to campus?
Or maybe you’d like to let students work together in a virtual space that doesn’t require them being in the same room?
Well, luckily, there are two FREE tools available to you to let you do all that and more.
You can embed ANY web page into your PowerPoint slideshow!
The steps below will show you how to embed a Sli.do poll into your slideshow. The steps are virtually identical if you’re using Kahoot!, Poll Everywhere, or just about any other website.
How do I embed Slido into my presentation?
Slido’s Present view can be embedded into your slides to make poll results and live questions visible directly in your PowerPoint presentation. The setup is really easy! To get started click the link above.
For more detailed instructions, you can also refer to this blog post.
If you have any questions or you’d like to schedule a 1-on-1 training session to learn more about PowerPoint or anything else, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Adding people to your Canvas courses is pretty simple. That is, once you’ve done it a couple times.
However, if you never have, it’s not the most “intuitive” process ever. So, here’s how you can add anyone to Canvas… as long as they have a UT EID.
