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The Quick Tip quiz saga continues, and our trilogy concludes this week with a focus on Canvas New Quizzes. 

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Last week, we took a comparative view of Classic vs. New Quizzes in Canvas.  This week, we’re taking a deeper dive into the Classic Quiz tool, including how to create the quiz, configure the settings and accommodations, preview and publish, and handle grading and makeups. 

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You say po-tā-toe, I say pot-ah-toe. You say, “tests, exams, assessments,” Canvas Panda says, “Classic and New Quizzes.”  

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Canvas has a helpful tool to allow instructors to see exactly what their students see in the course.

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Canvas gives a great way to share content with our students, but it can be a struggle to keep up with all of the digital resources and weblinks over time.  We can leverage the Link Validator tool in Canvas to quickly identify broken links so that we can fix them before they become a problem for students.

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Roll Call Attendance is a tool that allows instructors to take student attendance electronically via a list of student names or a seating chart grid. The Attendance tool can be used for both online and face-to-face courses.

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Course accessibility is a time-sensitive activity.  Throughout the course's development, you can take small steps to make course materials accessible, so when a student needs accommodation, it is available. Captioning videos can even help students who do not have an accommodation, for instance, if they do not know how to spell a term, cannot have the volume on, or simply learn better by reading.

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We hope you are having a great first week of classes!  For this week’s Quick Tip, we’re sending a reminder about the Canvas Dashboard and course enrollments.  Make sure to bookmark the updated ticket links below as these have changed since last semester.

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We hope you had a wonderful and restful winter break!  As our first Quick Tip of the new year, we wanted to share a great resource that will help you get your Spring 2023 courses “Canvas-Ready!”

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We hope the end of the semester is going smoothly for everyone.  We’re writing with some reminders and updates that we hope you will find helpful as we close out the fall semester and begin preparing for spring.

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Do you have a student taking an incomplete this semester?  The most common way instructors handle incompletes in Canvas is to extend student access to their course beyond the end of the term so that the student can submit the remaining work. 

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We are approaching that time of year when we start preparing for the upcoming semester.  Learn how to copy content from your previous Canvas courses.

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Cross-listing is a Canvas feature that allows instructors to combine multiple course section of enrollments into a single course. Cross-listing can be helpful for faculty who teach multiple sections of the same course and only want to manage course data in one location.

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This week, we’re taking a look at the Files section of Canvas courses.  You can access your course files by clicking the Files link in the course navigation menu on the left. 

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This week we want to show some Canvas course options that are easy to implement but could impact you and your students significantly.

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Once you’ve been teaching in Canvas for a while, you may find that your Dashboard starts to look a little cluttered.  To make it easier to find the courses you need when you need them, consider taking a few minutes to customize how your course cards appear on your Canvas Dashboard. 

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The gradebook looks like the fall trees, but there is purpose to that beauty. This week we are going to look at what those colors mean in the Canvas Gradebook.

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Updating all your assignment and quiz dates can be time-consuming, so this week’s tip contains two tricks for managing assignment dates more efficiently.

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��������'s Grade Push is a tool that allows faculty to "push" midterm and final grades recorded in Canvas into the KSU grade roster.

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Midterms are approaching!  Now is a good time to double-check that the grade information your students see in your Canvas course(s) is up to date, including the grading scheme.  The grading scheme is the setting that tells Canvas which percentages equate to which letter grades in the course. 

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