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Course Design & Development material.

Content

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Canvas Syllabus

Upload your syllabus on the Syllabus page in your Canvas course. Make sure to include a message about new online components and expectations.

Course Content

Use Canvas Modules to organize things like pages, files, assignments, and discussions in one place. Add Canvas Pages to your module to present text, hyperlink to files, and embed videos.

NOTE:  The UAB eLearning Online Course Template can provide structure for setting up your online course in Canvas. This template includes a homepage, Course Information module, UAB Policies and Resources module (with UAB policies, technical information, etc.), and weekly modules for weeks 1-15. This can be imported into your Canvas course shell and edited for your course. Request the eLearning template by filling out our eLearning request form.


Assessing

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Canvas Assignments

Add Canvas Assignments to your course modules so that you can collect students work and record grades in the gradebook.

Canvas Discussions

Add graded Canvas Discussions to your course modules so that students can respond to a prompt with text, files, or video/audio.

      • Allow threaded responses so that students can easily reply to other classmates.
      • Check that students must post before seeing replies so that they do not copy their classmates.

Canvas Quizzes

Add Canvas Quizzes to your modules to provide formative or summative assessment. Multiple choice, true/false, matching, and fill in the blank question types can be automatically graded while short answer and essay can be graded in the Speedgrader. Instructors can utilize Online Proctoring services to increase academic integrity.

Respondus

Respondus Lockdown Browser & Monitor is great for low-stake exams as it requires students to use a webcam to record their test taking session.

ProctorU

ProctorU is good choice for high stakes exams as it requires students to schedule a session with a live online proctor. Please contact the Division of eLearning (select 'other' as the technology) to make arrangements for using ProctorU in a transitioned course.

Teaching Modalities

    • On-campus: Courses that deliver all of the content 100% via on-campus face-to-face meetings.
    • Web-Enhanced: Courses that deliver less than 25% of content/instruction online. 
    • Blended: Courses that deliver at least 50% of content/instruction online.
    • Online: 85% or more content/instruction is delivered online. Most online classes do not have an in-person component; if they do, these components consist of events such as residency requirements, orientation sessions, or team-building activities.

    • Online courses can be asynchronous or synchronous. 

Asynchronous

  • No live components
  • Self-paced – students complete coursework on their own time
  • Format offers flexibility for students
  • Weekly deadlines 14, 10, or 7 weeks sessions

Synchronous

  • Virtual live lectures, discussions, group work via Zoom/Microsoft Teams
  • Required attendance
  • Weekly deadlines 14, 10, or 7 weeks sessions
  • Model offered during the pandemic

Communication

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Canvas Announcements

Post announcements with written or recorded messages for your students. This is the fastest way to communicate with your entire class from within Canvas. Suggest to students that they check their notifications settings to allow for copies of announcements to be forwarded to their email address. You will need to make sure your course is published for your students to see the announcements.

Canvas Discussions

Setting up a Canvas discussion is an easy way to allow instructors to discuss course content or assignments with students, or for students to share work or ask questions.



Grading

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Canvas SpeedGrader

Most assignments can be graded using SpeedGrader. Or, you can navigate to the gradebook in your course space and enter scores directly by clicking on a cell and entering a number.

Enahnce your teaching and student learning experiences by utilizing technologies that support your course goals. 

A full list of approved academic technologies is available on the eLearning Academic Technologies webpage

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