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 find outcomes for a course then align assessments, assignments with rubrics and quiz questions, to those outcomes.
This document explains how to change your UMW password used for Microsoft, Canvas, DAWGS, and more.
This document describes how to use the ScreenPal AI Tools to add captions and audio descriptions to instructional videos.
This document explains how to find digital badges once Canvas courses have closed.
This document explains how to give Canvas sites a nickname for easy identification.
This document explains how faculty can enable or disable course-level features in Canvas.
This document explains how to create boxes around text in columns of text while maintaining digital accessibility.
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.