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 quicklinks for Faculty, Students, and Moodle below.

113 documents
Accessibility Support, Faculty Support
Using Panorama to Improve Accessibility
This document explains how to use the Panorama accessibility checker withing the Canvas LMS.
Accessibility Support, Student Support
Panorama and Alternative Formats

This document explains how to locate alternative formats for course materials using Panorama.

Canvas Support, Student Support
Recording within Canvas

This document describes how to record videos within Canvas for Assignment and Discussion submissions.

Faculty Support
The Canvas File System

This document explains the Canvas Files system and how to share folders of files with students in Canvas.

Student Support
Registering for Classes

This document explains how to register for courses at UMW.

Canvas Support, Faculty Support
Messaging Students from within a Course

This document explains how instructors can message students within a Canvas course.

Canvas Support, Faculty Support
Checking Student Participation in Canvas

This document explains how to view student participation reports using Canvas New Analytics.

Canvas Support, Faculty Support
Downloading Canvas Course Content

This document describes how to export Canvas course content for backup purposes.