Creating a great Canvas course site requires care and creativity, so the Learning Design & Innovation team wanted to recognize the efforts of the faculty members who design great Canvas sites! This Spring, we relaunched Dartmouth’s Canvy Awards for the first time since COVID. The Canvy Awards is a program designed to elevate the student…
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Discussion Update for Canvas
Canvas has been busy building an updated and redesigned discussion tool. This new tool is available for preview now in your Canvas course. The new discussion tool provides users with flexible viewing options; a mobile-friendly and responsive design; @mentions for course members and anonymous discussions and new filtering and search options. In addition, Canvas redesigned…
Start of Term Guide
You’ve crafted learning objectives, designed your course, updated your syllabus, and set up your course Canvas site and now it’s the start of term. At this point, you may be wondering what else you can do to support your students and set the class up to run smoothly. In “How to Teach a Good First…
Mid-Course Evaluations
Student feedback offered through mid-course evaluations provides a great opportunity to improve your course, both for yourself and your students. Read below to discover how to implement them in your class in five easy steps. Why collect feedback from students mid-stream? Evidence suggests that when students provide feedback mid-term, there can be meaningful improvements in instruction,…
Creating Accessible Materials Guide
Supporting accessibility in your classroom begins with your course materials. While you will work with Student Accessibility Services to provide legally required accommodations for individual students, it can be extremely beneficial to think proactively about how accessible (and inclusive) your course can be. On our team, we like to frame this work as Liberatory Access,…
New and Visiting Faculty Guide
Welcome to Dartmouth! There are a variety of resources for New and Visiting Faculty that will help orient you to the unique teaching and learning context at the College. We’ve pulled some of them together here, with a particular focus on course design and Dartmouth’s educational technologies. In addition to these resources, you should be…