eLearning Tips, Tricks, and Helpful Documents
If you are an instructor at UMW, here you will find various documents to help with providing the highest quality eLearning experience for your students. If you are a student, you will find documents that will help make your life easier.
You can browse the list of topics, search for topics of interest, or begin by using the quick links for Faculty, Students, and Canvas below.
This document explains how to configure and begin using the Microsoft Education apps within Canvas.
This document explains how instructors and advisors can make a list of appointment available to students through the Canvas Calendar.
This document explains how to make an appointment with instructors/advisors in Canvas when they are made available to students.
This document explains how to connect your Dropbox account to Canvas then link to files within a course site.
This video demonstrates how to embed (or link) to a video that has been uploaded to the UMW OneDrive within the Canvas Rich Content Editor.
This document explains how to add checkpoints to Canvas discussions so that initial posts and replies have distinct due dates and grades.
This document explains how to calculate/display student Total grades as if ungraded items are zeros.
This document explains how to remove Inactive students from a course’s People list in Canvas without losing important student data.
This document explains how to add Canvas links to library database articles.
This document explains how to create the best possible results when scanning book and journals as well as how to make those scans accessible.
This document explains how to submit grades to DAWGS by using the Canvas Gradebook Passback tool.