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🧑‍💻 As spring term winds down, instructors

🧑‍💻 As spring term winds down, instructors should plan to store data from your courses so that you can access it easily whenever you need it.

✅ Here’s a quick checklist you can use to make sure you never lose any of your course content.

1️⃣ Remind students to save their own information such as submitted assignments.

2️⃣ Keep your own local copy of course grades outside of the learning management system. You can do this by exporting grades from Canvas to an Excel spreadsheet.

3️⃣ You can also export your entire course so that you can save a back up copy on your computer.

4️⃣ If there’s any student work that you may want to keep for accreditation or for your own teaching portfolio, you should plan to download those as well.

At the teaching center, have an entire end-of-term canvas checklist for faculty.

Make sure you head over to our website to learn more.

That’s teaching.pitt.edu.

#datastorage #teachingtips #canvaslms

👀 With the teaching survey period underway, her

👀 With the teaching survey period underway, here’s a quick checklist that faculty can use to increase student response rates and generate as much meaningful feedback as possible.

1️⃣ Visit your teaching survey dashboard to make sure that a survey is open for your course. And while you’re there, monitor response rates.

2️⃣ Make sure that you encourage students in person to complete their surveys. Dedicating class time for students to complete their surveys is one of the most proven and effective strategies at boosting response rates.

3️⃣ Use the Canvas Learning Management System and promote your teaching surveys by posting personal announcements and sharing survey links with your students.

To learn more, you can visit our website at teaching.pitt.edu where we have a full end-of-term teaching survey ✅ checklist for faculty.

#teachingsurveys #assessmentofteaching #teachingtips

Here’s how to ensure that your Canvas gradebook

Here’s how to ensure that your Canvas gradebook is accurate before submitting final grades.

No. 1️⃣: Use gradebook late policy settings to automatically enter zero for any unsubmitted work in your course.

No. 2️⃣: Verify that grades and totals in Canvas are correct. And double check that your grade weights are functioning correctly.

No. 3️⃣: Make sure that the score to letter grade conversion aligns with your grading scheme.

And finally, No. 4️⃣: Post any hidden assignment grades so that they are visible to your students.

Here at the Teaching Center, we have a full end-of-term Canvas checklist for faculty.

Head over to teaching.pitt.edu to learn more!

#h2p #highereducation #canvaslms

Once the term is over, you might want to clear up

Once the term is over, you might want to clear up your Canvas workspace so that you can focus solely on preparing for the upcoming term. @canvaslms

You can do this in 3 simple steps!

1️⃣: Adjust the notifications for your completed courses in Canvas.

This will help remove any unwanted alerts that may show up in your workspace.

2️⃣: Review the course or term dates and adjust them, if needed.

3️⃣: You can also “unfavorite” your old course in Canvas so that it is entirely removed from your dashboard.

Here at the teaching center, we have a full end-of-term canvas checklist on our website.

Visit the link in our story to learn more!

#canvaslms #highereducation #onlineteaching

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