Using Canvas- Announcements and Feedback

Office Hours 4-May 6, 2020

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Alexa Haselhorst and Susan Miller-Hendrix

Agenda

• Using Canvas for your Announcements
• Using Canvas for your feedback
• Using a text expander to help you with feedback
• Questions

"information hydrant" (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by Will Lion

• Announcement - Now what?

1. HTML Editor-
2. Insert/edit Media
3. Link to URL
4. More External Tools
5. Record/ Upload Media
6. Check Accessibility

Announcements

1. Engage them!

-Use a giphy.com (grab the embed code)

-Use an image (if you use flickr- use imagecodr.org to get the attribution)

- Use a cool text

- Use a wordle- (check out tagxedo.com)

Giphy

Search giphy.com.

Click on what you want to use.

Then you can get the link to hyperlink, or use Media to use the Embed Media option, or get the embed code and click on the HTML editor to paste it in.

Add an attribution- I use: Created by XX via XX.

Flickr

On Flickr, change the search to Creative Commons. Find your image. Copy and paste the image address into imagecodr.org. And then it will let you know if you can use it and it will give you the embed code. Go to your announcement and click on the HTML Editor and paste it the code.

Announcements

2. Instruct them! (Content Instruction and Course Information)

• Use a screencast to make a video to teach (screencastify and loom)
• Use the Record audio so the kids can hear you!
• Include a link or embed to a webtool- quizlet/ quizizz/ kahoot/ youtube/ edpuzzle/
• If you make a table- check the accessibility guide.

Screencast

Screencastify, screencast-o-matic and loom are options for screencasting. I use Loom, and I use it as a google extension.

To record, I click on the red swirl for Loom and record. Then, I click on share and get the embed code.

Youtube

Use the Share- Embed option for embed youtube videos directly into your announcements.

You can also use the Insert/embed media option.

Quizlet/ Quizizz/

In quizlet, use the …. In order to find the menu to get the embed code.

In quizizz- copy the link to the practice which never expire or play a game with your class.

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Announcements

3. Celebrate them!

This can be a place where you celebrate your students. I use my bitmoji to give shout outs to students.

Mme Haselhorst’s bitmoji

Feedback in Canvas

Your feedback matters for your students- especially since they are likely not getting a “grade.” You can record media comments. And you can use the speech to text option.

I use a textexpander to allow me to give more detailed feedback. I begin my feedback personal to the student and then I use a textexpander to elaborate.

EX: Student, great effort with this new topic. In French, most adjective go after your nouns. Here are your corrections: …..

Check this video as I go over these notes- https://www.loom.com/share/c2e27041387449f98a6b62ad6fce17ae

TextExpander

I use the google extension for text expander, but there are many options.

I give my assignments a code- for example, the Unit 1 Lesson 1 Assignment 1 code is 111;

After I type 111; - then it will auto populate to say- Intéressant! Great discussion about this topic. When I was in high school, my motivation for learning French was my desire to go to Paris. During college, I did a study abroad in France and fell in love with France. I've now been to several French countries, but have yet to go to Belgium, so that's where I'd most like to travel.

It helps me to give longer feedback to all students, and also- I want to point them to a website or video and I can have that in my autotext.

Text expander

I go to Google Menu- More Tools- Extensions.

I select Auto Text Expander for Google Chrome.

I click on Extension options to see all of my shortcuts.

Questions