Why is this useful?

This page we have selected video tutorials and added text guides which are most relevant to you as a teacher designing blended or flipped learning in Canvas.

Use Canvas to monitor student progress and communicate with them on progress

One of the factors that is important to consider when you are implementing flipped or blended learning is how you will communicate with your students around the asynchronous tasks that you give them and how you will keep track of which assignments they have completed. For example, flipped learning will involve the student completing tasks before you meet them synchronously. You will need to know that they have completed these tasks on time and if you see that some students have not started you will want to message the student to ask if they need help. You can also find out a lot about how much interaction students are doing with your course content by looking at the analytics.

Keeping track of students in Canvas

Let us say that you have created self-tests or quizzes that you want students to complete before the synchronous session. How do you know that the students have watched the film or answered your questions? The literature on flipped learning emphasises that students need to be held accountable for their learning and you as a teacher will need to know how to monitor student progress. The Gradebook is the perfect place to start because you can send messages to students directly via a quiz or assignment if you see that they have not completed the task before class.

How To Track Students Usage in Canvas with Student Access Report

Learn how to easily track students usage in Canvas with the Student Access Report. In this short video on Youtube (3'18") Angie Teaches shows you how to see students they're accessing in canvas (and what they're not!). These time stamps indicate the contents of the video:

0'25" Student Access Report to track student activity in canvas
1'30" New Analytics in Canvas to look at students usage class wide
2'08" Weekly Course Activity and Page Views in Canvas

Tips for messaging students in Canvas

Johnie Forsythe, Quick Tutorial (3.54min) for faculty using Canvas Valencia College

See contact details for this video on Youtube.

Using Inbox in Canvas LMS

You may want to use the mail (conversation function) in Canvas to communicate with students if you are not sending a message directly related to an assignment.

Ashlee Espinosa in this video (10'00") takes you through how to use your inbox to communicate with your students.

For all of Ashlee's videos and contact details go to this video on Youtube.

Using New Analytics in Canvas

In this video on Youtube Ashlee shows you how to keep track of students and their progress in Canvas.

For contact details and more go to this video on Youtube.

Canvas' New Analytics Introduction, Tour, and Insights

This video (8'50") looks at insights that can be gleaned from Canvas Analytics. The presenter shows examples of data informed changes can be made to a course design based on analytic data as well as what retention efforts can be made in the first few days of the term.

How to Take Roll in Canvas + Set up a Seating Chart in Canvas for Attendance

Inthis video on Youtube (4'24") from the channel Angie Teaches Learn how to take roll in Canvas. You'll also learn how to set up a seating chart in Canvas and use the seating chart to take roll. Use the Canvas Seating Chart to take roll - it's so easy! Consider using the Attendance tool to take roll in Canvas.

Take Roll AFTER Zoom Meeting Ends

In this video from Youtube (1'03") from the channel Angie Teaches You can EASILY take roll after the zoom meeting ended. You'll learn how to take roll in Zoom after the meeting has finished. It's easy, and you'll never forget to take attendance in zoom again.

Text guides that might be helpful

How do I send a message to students from the Gradebook?
How do I add a page to the student To-Do list as an instructor?
Guide from Educatus: Using Canvas New Analytics to see how students are doing in your course

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