Make a Canvas Development Site to Curate and Archive Content
Creating a Canvas development site offers a streamlined approach for archiving, storing, and developing your course content.
Faculty can utilize a development site as a secure sandbox environment to draft, edit, import, and refine or archive all of your course content. It also makes it easy to share materials with other instructors or future teaching assistants without adding them to an active teaching site.
For example, you can copy individual module items or copy all module contents from your active teaching site to your development course using the Copy To function.
This is a more selective content curation process than importing content from an entire course and can make the process quick and more iterative.
Making the Gradebook
Maintaining your Canvas Gradebook is a semester long (or longer) project.
ATSS offered a late August Webinar on Setting up the Canvas Gradebook. The session takeaways and slides have been published to the ATSS Extra Points blog,in the article Canvas Gradebook Set up: August 2024 Session Recap.
Additionally, UMD ITSS offers weekly Academic Technology Drop-in sessions and appointments, where you can get timely answers to your individual gradebook questions throughout the semester, such as: ;“How do I set the course grading scheme?” and “How do I view grades by section or by group?”
Assigning AI: 7 Approaches for Students, with Prompts
Although the AI’s output might be deemed “good enough,” students should hold themselves to a higher standard, and be accountable for their AI use.
- Bowen and Watson, Teaching with AI: A Practical guide to a New Era of Human Learning, pg. 77
From Assigning AI: Seven Approaches for Students, with Prompts a 2023 scholarly article from Ethan Mollick and Lilach Mollick, both of Wharton Generative AI Lab. The article is accessible, step-by-step workflow of Generative AI prompts and to users of all levels. We encourage you to explore the document on your own, or you can join the UMN Writing Across Curriculum Article Circle.