Speaker 1: OTAN. Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.

Karin De Varennes: My name is the name of the century, Karin de Varennes. I work at OTAN and I'm filling in today for Dana, who is out sick. So it's really wonderful to see you. But she'll be back soon. So please, this is really one of my favorite topics, which is how to create and do fun assignments and assignments in Canvas.

So everyone has a Canvas-- does everyone have a Canvas account? I'm hoping yes. So if you can get into your Canvas, that would be helpful. And just FYI, it's kind of interesting about Canvas assignments. Assignments in Canvas are used to assess student understanding. And the three areas where there are assignments are those graded quizzes and surveys, the graded discussions, and the online submissions.

And so things that we do like that are activities as teachers, those aren't always considered assignments, because you don't need those for a grade. So whatever you put into the Canvas assignment then becomes a graded assignment in your speed grader. So FYI on that. There's ever any questions or you need something to slow down, speed up, let me know. And again, I would like to roll casually, because we're in a safe space to learn together. Any questions so far on what are Canvas assignments?

Audience: Can you name the three again?

Karin De Varennes: Is anyone seeing my PowerPoint?

Audience: Yes.

Karin De Varennes: OK, good. So the three are the graded quizzes, the graded discussions, and the online submissions are all considered assignments. And assignments can be used to assess how well students are doing, set up a way for students to submit their work online, and that can be quickly graded in speed grader. So whatever assignment that you put is connected into your grade book automatically.

So that's why you don't want to have just an activity that's checking for understanding as an assignment. Grading online work as well as student work is submitted on paper. You can also create differentiated assignments with assignments and then facilitate peer reviews. All of these automatically sync to your gradebook. So if you put it in as an assignment, it syncs to gradebook. Make sense? Any questions so far?

Audience: No, we're good.

Karin De Varennes: OK. And again, this is being recorded, so I will send out this recording and all the slides and information as soon as it's up and ready. OK.

So what is the difference between a Canvas assignment and an activity? Assignments are those that students complete for a grade and activities are those that students do not need a rubric or a learning outcome. So for instance, we already know now the assignments that can be counted are graded discussions, assignments, quizzes, surveys. Those are all assignments. An example of an activity, though, is a non-graded Canvas assignment where maybe you have them sort things or maybe you have them work on-- let me show you an example.

OK, so on my-- are you all seeing my Canvas? It says Zoom breakout activity, no submission.

Audience: Yes.

Karin De Varennes: This would be, and I'll put it in student view, an example of a no submission where you're giving students questions ahead of time about a video and you're watching the video. There's no submission to it. They're just thinking about it. So that's the one that's just a submission. Has anyone done any of those before? Oops. I'm going to move back over.

So the other things that could be considered like an activity are the non-graded discussions. So if you're just having students discuss something in that discussion forum, doesn't have to be in a graded discussion. So it can be a graded discussion as an assignment or you can choose not to have it graded. It's not graded. It's just an activity. You can do a practice quiz where, again, the grade doesn't count. And you can also do non-graded surveys.

So if you go into Canvas, does everyone know how to get into your assignments or how assignments are created? Does everyone know how to do that?

Audience: Yes.

Karin De Varennes: Yes? Please give me a thumbs up if you do. OK. Everyone else know how to do it? OK. Brenda, OK. Dalia, how are you on this assignments?

Audience: Yes, I got it. I got it. Yeah. I'm trying to find my reactions. Sorry.

Karin De Varennes: Oh good. No, it's OK. Thank you. I just wanted to figure this out. So let's kind of grab the assignment details. So hopefully you see my screen where it shows at the top when you make an assignment. When you set up the assignment details, you have to press Edit in the top right hand corner.

And from here, the points will be whatever you determine, correct? And this will be what appears on their grade. And you can display points as a letter grade or as points. You can also determine if you want it to be a percentage or complete or incomplete. I really like the complete incomplete component. So if you're in Canvas right now, are you seeing that?

The next part of the details that we'll want to figure out are the submission types. Students can upload their work in the following ways. So here under the submission type, you can have a non-submission or on paper where they turn it in to you physically. And then you can manually enter that grade in Canvas. But an online submission is very exciting, because students can enter text in the Canvas editor. They can upload a photo or file. They can annotate. And you can do an external tool, like a Google Doc. I'm going to share with you a text entry example.

So here's a notice and wonder. And what's so exciting, I don't get access to the student view here. Oh, yes I do. Yay. OK, so here the student can start an assignment by pressing the blue button. And you can see here and look at the image of this graph, this plot graph, and use your mind to relate it to math. So students can look at that image and then in their mind answer these questions.

And then to submit this assignment, students can do a file upload. Again, I know it takes a bit to teach them how to do that. But the other cool thing is they can use a webcam from Studio. They can add another file, and they could submit an assignment. This is what I love about Canvas is that it also teaches digital literacy right as they're doing their assignments.

For a text entry, students could use the Rich Content Editor here to copy and paste or type in their submission. They could use Studio where they're recording themselves. They can add a recording here. Or they could just type. And then they would submit their assignment here.

And notice on the bottom the criteria with the rubric so easy to create and reuse. So submission addresses the prompts early. Submission is free of spelling errors. This is the rubric that we're using for this. And again, very easy to grade. Media record. They can record their own media. I think the math problem is like this. Or upload, select a video file or their audio file.

Great for English learners so that they can practice before giving an answer first and recording their answer rather than giving it into a group setting. If you're into CK-12 practice, you can do that. You can add a Google Doc through your Google Drive. Again, Office and Studio. So these are all the ways that students can respond to an assignment. Isn't that incredible? Which is great for differentiation and an amazing way to really understand and test their knowledge.

As well as if we press the Immersive button-- if we press the Immersive Reader button, the cool thing about this is it can be read and it can be read in many different languages and textile text. So if I want to choose Albanian by the document or by the word, we can just play that and off it goes. It can be read to them and their answers can be in English. Anyone played with Immersive Reader yet? I personally love it.

So from here, these are the kinds of online submissions. But you know that they can also have the standard turn it in. And then you would have to manually grade it in Canvas. That works. I wanted to go ahead and here's the next. Come on, cursor. Thank you. Curses.

So assignment details. You can assign to-- you can make it a group assignment, which is the one above that. But you can assign it to different people or mastery paths. And mastery paths are places where you can differentiate by choice or you could differentiate by the levels of students, the levels where they need more practice or they need more time or something.

So when you assign to something, if you click the Mastery Path button, which is an entirely different really advanced class, then that's where you can differentiate. You can also differentiate the different group assignments. Here at the bottom, you can put in the due dates and when it's available to when it's due.

Notice, though, that if you don't set a due date that students have till the end of your term and they're given all that time to-- there's no due date, basically. So the default is the end of the term. So you can set the time and date and then press Add. All these due dates will show up on that student's module, on their calendar, on the syllabus, and on to do list on their dashboard. Again, something you don't have to do yourself. That's just added in. Love that.

OK, so if I head back to my Canvas, leave student view, and I head back to my Canvas course, if I go to the Pages section. Oops, sorry. If I go to the Assignments section, I can search for an assignment there. And I can view all of them on this Course Index page. So I can look at all the assignments and I can figure out whether or not they seem to go or whether or not I want to file them somewhere or use them somewhere or duplicate or move to, send to, make another assignment.

As an instructor, you can also add assignment groups. Here's the button here where you can add a group. Let's say you wanted to differentiate where you have station rotation groups. So perhaps this assignment group is a video Q&A. You can just type in your different groups. Save. And I can make a different group. Maybe this group is a practice group. So you're practicing whatever skill that you're teaching them. It may be there's another group that I can add that assignment to. Word origins maybe or whatever I'm working on.

So here you can see that those folks are down here at the bottom. So there are my groups where I can add in those assignments there. So let's say for the video question answer, I wanted to add an assignment. I would go to the type assignment. Maybe I want it to be a discussion. The name would be something like word origin movie.

I could set in the time and the date, the due date. So let's see. I don't want it due today, but I'll put it the 12th. Points for this. I'm going to put it as a five point and I'm going to save. And then there it goes right beneath my grouping. Here I can actually go into the-- and create it here. Any questions so far?

So in that section where you can assign groups, they can be assigned to everyone, specific student group sections, or even individuals. So if you needed someone that needed more enrichment or needed a different type of assignment, you can do that when you go to the Assign tab.

You can also reorder assignments and assignment groups. So you do that by pressing these three buttons here where I can move up or down. And I can move these around. Oops. Before quiz one, I can move it and there it is. So just by pressing these three buttons here, they're easy to move. And I can move back to imported assignments. This is where I'm going to put it. So I just love how easy that is. So much better than my binder that I used to carry around that used to open up after I had so much in it. Anyone else carry around a binder when you first started teaching?

OK. I'm going to go ahead and reshare again.

Audience: I did. I was that teacher.

Karin De Varennes: Oh yes. I know. Didn't you love your binders and then all those little text pockets we used to have and the little tabs? And it you would just-- they were gold. Everything you owned was in that binder. Am I right? And I look back at those things that I've saved now and, of course, you can't even read them anymore. The ink's all gross. You know what I'm saying? Those dittos of the past and you think, I don't even know how people read these.

Audience: Right. I remember the days.

Karin De Varennes: Do you remember the days? Tell me.

Audience: And the smell.

Karin De Varennes: Oh, remember the smell of the dittos. For those of you that don't know, it was like sinner or something. Anyone else have those dittos?

So again, if you go back into your Canvas and you hit the Assignments in your navigation bar. Then you can-- are you seeing my PowerPoint again? Are you seeing my Canvas?

Speaker 1: Your PowerPoint is visible.

Karin De Varennes: OK, good. Thank goodness. That's where I'm meant to be. So again, on that navigation bar, if you hit Assignments, then you can view all your course assignments, which I just showed you. And that's that in a nutshell.

Another really cool feature of Canvas is when you're up at the top, you can group students, which I showed you ahead of time, but that's the button where you do that. And you can edit assignment dates. But you can also edit the group weight. So what's really neat is you can automatically weight your homework assessments, projects, whatever it is that you like to grade. And then as long as it adds up to 100%, you save it and then it automatically qualifies. You can also do it as points or percentages, I believe.

So the due date that you say the assignment must be turned in is to be on time. The date does show on the calendar. I think I've already mentioned this. And it's submitted into the gradebook. You can specify a specific date range as well when students can submit, which is interesting and nice. So someone has the range. You can get it in quicker or slower as a student. I like that.

Dates are optional. Can be set depending on how you want to manage it. And then again, just a reminder if it's left blank, then it goes towards the end of the term. I don't like that. I don't like to have to correct all that stuff at the very end. I don't know about you guys.

You can update your multiple assignments at the same time. I love that. So in your course navigation bar, you go back and click on the Assignments Index page that I just showed. And on the Assignments page, you click the Options icon. Then select the Edit Assignment Dates option. Any questions so far? How are we doing? How's everything going? If you want to keep an assignment open or locked, you could also do that.

Again, I'll have these for you, these slides and all of that on the recording. So what about extra credit? You can create a regular assignment for 0 points. And when the submission comes in, you just put those points in manually in your speed grader. You can also with assignments with no submission can also be used for extra credit. So it gives you a lot of opportunities in gradebook. I like that.

OK, so now it's we do time. I've kind of gone over the general what an assignment is. Would anyone like to see any examples or work together in creating assignments? This would be the practical time where we get to practice and do. So we can work on creating a graded quiz. What would be most helpful?

Audience: Well, that sounds good. Creating a graded quiz.

Karin De Varennes: OK. Everyone else OK with that? OK. So is everyone in their Canvas assignments? Are you in your Canvas? So I would go and grab your Canvas so we can do it together. Are you seeing my Canvas? Oh.

So the question in the chat. Could you give us an assignment with the Immersive Reader? Could you please-- a sample. Yeah. Well, in every assignment, it comes with Immersive Reader. So let me show you what I mean by that. The sample would be let's say that I want to show you an example of differentiation.

And I'm making a note here for the attendance check notes module for reinforcement. So you can see that's how it's differentiated. But up at the top in the right hand corner is Immersive Reader on every page. So if I go to the student page here, you see up at the top is Immersive Reader.

If I hit Immersive Reader, even in English, I can make it different colors for folks that have visual contrasting or just like different colors. I mean, people just like different colors too. I can arrange a different font. I can increase spacing and text size. So even here for students who may have some visual opportunities, they can do that.

I can also go to the grammar options. Let's say that I wanted them to see all the verbs or adverbs. Or if I wanted to show all labels, which would be really confusing with what it is. So for instance, here today, here's an adverb. Shawn, you had a question?

Audience: I do. I do not have a Canvas through my school district. I only have Canvas through my school.

Karin De Varennes: Through your own-- OK, so if you don't have a Canvas, Shawn, well, let's talk after and let's see if we can. If you're in adult ed, let's see if we can't work through something for you. Yeah, because you won't have Immersive Reader or any of these tricks I'm showing you. That's so mean.

So those grammar options are huge. You can also do syllables. You can show one line of text.

Audience: Karin, can you decrease the size of the font so we can see more words?

Karin De Varennes: Oh sure. Let's go back. And let me go back down. Oops. And let me go to where it's all of the text. Does that help, Michelle?

Audience: Yes, it does. I can see more of what you're doing.

Karin De Varennes: Here. Let's see if I can't make it even-- I'll turn the line focus off. Does that help?

Audience: Yes, it does. Thank you.

Karin De Varennes: So down here with translate, is there anyone that would like to just throw out a language that you would like to hear? Some of these, I have to say, there's such a great range.

Audience: Let's check out Ukrainian.

Karin De Varennes: All right. Let's do it. Now watch. There won't be a Ukrainian. Oh, there is. Yay. OK, we're going to do the whole document. And I remember my newcomer class where everyone spoke Ukrainian and Russian back in 1992. And every word I had to use was from a dictionary, an English to Russian dictionary or Ukrainian dictionary. And just in a second, it just translated this text.

Audience: Amazing.

Karin De Varennes: Isn't that amazing?

Audience: Yes, it is.

Karin De Varennes: I just think it's so helpful. So students can use the Immersive Reader. And I just find it helpful, because I know in my second language it's tough to get sometimes the academic texts that you're trying to focus on and get the point of what it is. And then as you go back and read it in English, it makes more sense. In your second language, I mean. So anyway, Immersive Reader is on every student assignment.

So I'm still in student view. And if I start the assignment here, again, students can do any of these items to submit how they want to answer. So we're going to go back. And any other questions? Go back and we're going to make a quiz, correct?

Audience: Sure, if you have time or anything.

Karin De Varennes: This is the fun part of my job. I just love working on Canvas with other fellow teachers like myself. So to get to an assignment, you just press either the plus button here or you can add an assignment over here. Either way, it leads you to the plus assignment.

And for this assignment name, let's make it a quiz about-- and let's-- you guys are going to have to help me with this. Quiz about something that we know a lot about. Quiz about-- so let's talk about a quiz. Let's have a quiz about-- I'm thinking about word origins. I'm a weirdo. I like that kind of thing.

I am going to insert here a video. I'm going to write my directions at the top here. I'll make this more of a video quiz. So watch the video. Answer the questions below. I'm going to head over to my studio. I'm just doing something on child stars. Let's see. This is my-- OK.

So in my studio, I have a whole bunch of languages, different videos and different things. OK, I want to select the origins of English. I'm going to go ahead and turn off my display media tabs, because that makes it so people can make comments. I'm going to turn off my video for a sec.

So here I have watched the video, which of course as a teacher we would put a lot more directions in there. I've embedded questions through my studio option, which are these dots here. And I'm going to make points, say, like five points. My assignment group is a homework or question video. Here we go. Video question answer. I'm going to display my points as just points. I'm deciding that maybe I don't want to count this assignment towards the final grade or maybe I do.

My submission type. I can choose between no submission where they don't have to do anything. I can do an online, on paper, external tool. So I think I'd like them to do a media recording about their response. For attempts, I always like for students to have an unlimited amount of time that they can do it. I'm not going to require a peer review or a group assignment, though I could.

And then I'm going to assign it to everyone. I'm going to put a due date. And I'm going to make it a range. I'm going to add. Assign to Canvas assignments. Oops. Save. And here it is in student view. Oh, it hasn't been published. Let me go back and publish it.

At the bottom, I can add a rubric. Here I can find a rubric. I love this feature. And if you're with us on-- and could create a rubric down here, but we won't worry about all of that now. Here's the student view. And it's locked because I locked it. That wasn't very smart.

So let's go ahead and make it into a quiz, an assignment into the quiz. I go to the navigation bar and I put quizzes. I'll add a quiz. New quiz. And again, graded quizzes go in as an assignment. But you don't put them in as an assignment. You put them as a quiz.

So our assignment name could be-- let's see. What could we write in a quiz about? How about, I don't know why, but I'm thinking about a matching activity. Why am I thinking this so hard? We'll just say matching. I'm going to make it six points. The assignment group is assignments. I'm going to display grade as points. I'm not going to use a submission type. It's just going to be there. Hit Build. And it's loading my quizzes. Is everyone with me now? Where are we? How is everyone doing?

Audience: Yeah, I'm watching.

Karin De Varennes: Everyone OK here so far?

Audience: Yes.

Karin De Varennes: That sounds very reluctant. [laughs] So when you go to the quiz engine, you can add content just by pressing this plus button. I can categorize file upload. I recommend not yet the formula. I have to tell you that it's not working to what it could yet. So if you're a math teacher, it's really difficult to use. Let's try matching. I'm going to add an instruction here. Match the word with the language origin. And of course, I'm going to do a whole lot more.

Weird thing is about these question titles, you only need to write it once. Match the language origin with the word. The weird thing is for some reason these have to be-- this part also gets copied here. And even the instructor folks just say that's the way it works for when you want to share your quizzes. It kind of categorizes them by the second stem. But you can't leave it blank. So generally I just copy and paste.

And so question. I'm going to write the word agriculture. And the answer. What language origin? Does anyone know for fun? Latin, French, Greek, which one? So you just write what the question is and then the answer and then it'll match it.

So let's try a word like catatonic. Anyone know what language it is, stems from? I'll give you a hint. It starts with a G.

Audience: Greek.

Karin De Varennes: There you go. Greek. How about the word verbose? What do you think? Latin, Greek, French?

Audience: French.

Karin De Varennes: You got it. Let's think of the word sun. Where do you think that comes from? Latin, Greek, French, old English?

Audience: Old English.

Karin De Varennes: Old English. You got it. So here are those question answer pairs. I can put some distractors in if I want to, or I can just type different words. Yeah. I could write Japanese. Sorry, what were you thinking?

Audience: OK, these are the wrong answers.

Karin De Varennes: Mm-hmm. Like if I just wanted to put in-- where it gets tricky and I've made mistakes is if you have two Old English words, sometimes the computer, it only matches with one answer. So even though the other word is Old English, it doesn't recognize that.

The other thing that I've asked is if they could, as an ESL or teacher, I really appreciate a lot of pictures. And unfortunately, you can't add a picture yet. They can shuffle the questions. I can say that's an exact match. If my grade level has aligned outcomes, like word origins or some sort of foundational literacy, I can attach it. I don't have that yet. I could add this to a bank. So I could add this to a word origins bank. And I might just put these are my word origins quizzes. And they'll add to that bank.

So let's see what the preview looks like. So here it gives all the choices. So sun is, let's say, Chinese. Agriculture is-- I'm just doing some we know what they are, but we'll put some correct answers, some false answers. The student hits Submit. It auto grades. Got to love that. And here it shows the correct answer, Old English or Latin. Isn't that cool?

Audience: Yeah, that's really handy.

Karin De Varennes: Isn't that handy? So how about would you guys like to make one of those? Would you like to go on and make more quizzes, have more quiz examples for assignments?

Audience: Whatever you want.

Karin De Varennes: Whatever I want? No, no, it's your session. It's your valuable time.

Audience: Oh, show off. Come on. Show us what you know.

[laughs]

Karin De Varennes: I prefer it if you guys wanted to try it. How about if you help me this next time? So let's go to a-- let's create another quiz which would be graded. What in here would you like to try? We've got categorization, multiple choice, ordering, essay, fill in the spot, hot spot, multiple answer, true false, and the stimulus, which is kind of a cool-- it matches all the testing where it has the video or passage on the side and then the questions on the right side. So of these choices, what could you use tomorrow?

Audience: Well, I'd like to see stimulus or categorization.

Karin De Varennes: OK. Everyone else OK with that?

Audience: Or ordering.

Karin De Varennes: Everyone else OK with that? OK, let's try categorization. So what do we want to categorize? So now you got to help me. What's something in here that you're thinking about with your students where they can categorize vertebrates?

Audience: Oh, uh-huh.

Karin De Varennes: Reptiles.

Audience: Or would it be nouns or verbs like you were saying?

Karin De Varennes: Sure, sure. We can do a noun verb. Nouns and verbs. And again, you have to copy and paste in that next area. And again, we don't know why. It doesn't make sense. So type a category description. Find the words that are a person, place, idea, or thing. Is that OK?

Audience: Sure.

Karin De Varennes: And then what would you say for a verb? Oh, body cavities. Holy cow. Ernestina, that would be a good one. I would know nothing about that. You would have to help me.

[laughs]

But yeah, it would be perfect for that. So since we're on the nouns, verbs, because I didn't see body cavities, that's just so thrilling to think about, though.

Audience: And much more interesting than nouns and verbs.

Karin De Varennes: Much more interesting than your EL teachers here, Ernestina. Now we know who to go to for a topic. So for a verb where we just say we'll just call it a being verb or an action verb. And then we just type our answers. So let's think of a noun, a body cavity. Two of these aren't at all what we would use, but I just was thrilled by that. Action verbs. Run. Listen. Jump. Let's just change this to skip.

Again, I wish there were pictures, because it would be really handy. They're working on it, I hear. We could make more categories if we wanted. We could make several more categories. And all you would do is type the answer there. So I guess if you did system, like a circulatory system or a--

Audience: Digestive system.

Karin De Varennes: Thank you. Digestive system or I cannot think of any of the systems that work in my body right now. Neurological I guess is a system. Ernestina, help, help. But you could do all those. Again, you could write the distractors. I could put an adverb in there or something. Let's see. I can align it. I can item bank it. I'm going to hit Done. Oh, I forgot, I got to get rid of these. Done.

And I want to preview. There's the matching that we made earlier. And here's the nouns and verbs. And students can just--

[interposing voices]

Karin De Varennes: Sorry, go ahead.

Audience: You can have more than one kind of question in your quiz.

Karin De Varennes: Absolutely. You can have so many different ideas in this. And it auto grades. Isn't that great?

Audience: Nice.

Karin De Varennes: So again, graded quizzes are considered assignments. You just don't put them under the Assignment button. OK, are we still building? Did you want to try building on your own over there, guys, or do you want to keep going?

So Ernestina might want to look at I'm thinking of a hotspot. So you could, with the hotspot, it's like you could put a picture here. So something like find the skull. I used to have a picture here. Let's see if I still have it. I may not. Picture, picture, picture of a skull. I don't have it anymore.

So let's say it's hummus. And it's find the parsley. It's not a good example, but I didn't have a body handy, which you may, Ernestina. Then you drag the hotspot shape. And you drag it over wherever you want students to see.

You can also do it where it goes-- where you can actually make it where it is a little more-- of course it's being gooey right now. But you get the picture. It's kind of user friendly, but you could see that it's a little awkward. Now I've got this like wacko thing that's going wild here.

And you can have them click within the hotspot to receive full points. And that's kind of cool. You can say Done. And then if the person hits the spot, then students get credit. So I'm having a hard time making it-- takes a little more time. Here we go. Align to outcomes. Done.

Oh, see, I always forget to find the parsley. So anyway, this can be done. The only other thing about it that's tough is I wanted to use it to describe the parts of a plant in my class, like stem, petal. And it only does one thing. So that's the unfortunate thing about the hotspot. You have to make several hotspots for it to go to different levels. Like if you wanted to say find the garbanzo bean, you would have to make another hotspot. Press Done.

We can go up and preview. And if I hit outside of the parsley, Submit. So it would say no. But if I hit in within that place and submit it, it would say great job. You found it.

So those are some ways-- those quizzes are just some wonderful ways of assignments that get counted as assignments and into your students and into your gradebook. Any other questions on the quizzes? Do we still want to go through them? Do you want to try some on your own? Oh, Dalia, that's so neat. I love that. Hopefully this is helpful. Is this helpful for everyone? Tell me where you're feeling.

Audience: Sure, this is great.

Karin De Varennes: OK, good. Fantastic. Shall we continue on with another quiz? The stimulus I think, Michelle, is what you wanted. Anyone else? Just the last go with the title.

So let's say that you wanted a student to read a text. Title. I don't have a text handy. Let's see if I have one in my-- well. Let's see. Add a stimulus. So let's say that we want them to read something. What could we have a title about? Ernestina, give us something medical.

Well, let's think of patriotic symbol. No. Let's see. How about, oh, definition of a digestive system. Oh, good idea. The digestive system. Instructions. Please read the blah, blah, blah, and then answer blah, blah, blah. And then here I can upload a document. Let's see if we have any course documents I can just upload now happening in here. Let's see if it'll let me upload the document.

So you can just go right to your own file where you can upload a document. How about if we just do it the old fashioned way? I don't have anything exciting there. Let me go to Google. Oh, check this out. Isn't that interesting? There's a little view diagram.

Ooh, what do you think of this, Ernestina? Share. Copy link. Click to copy link. Wow. That's pretty neat. Oh, you like it? OK. So I'm going to copy the link. Share. Click. Link copied.

And I'm going to-- oh no. Save as. I'm not sure that it'll let me download this. Let's see if it'll let me. This is really cool though. All right. So here I'm going to go back to my content and insert. Oh, maybe I could do the link.

This is not kind of what we want, though. We want students to read. So let me get just something blah, blah, blah. Have to have another time spent going through the how to upload those other things. I'm just going to hit Copy. Go back. Paste. And of course, I would give them credit. Whoever it was that I needed to, I would make sure that the person got credit.

Options. So it scrolls up and down, which I like. But it also is accessible. Options. I could do questions to the right or questions below. And I'm going to do questions to the right. The source URL would be the URL where we got it from. And I don't have that bank, New Item Bank. Well, let's see what happens.

And then on this side with the stimulus, I can attach a question using those same quizzes that we just went over. So let's say if I wanted to have a matching after they read it on what is the digestive system, we could do the same thing we just did. Isn't that fantastic? And we can attach it. So maybe I'll do a multiple choice this time.

What does the digestive system do? And of course, that has to be the same. Isn't this cool? Makes our life so much easier, because actually when we get it finished, you can reuse it and reuse it and reuse it. And unlike Google Classroom where I used to use that all the time and loved it, I always had to re-upload every year. You don't have to with Canvas.

What does the digestive system do? Who knows? It digests. Here's your second answer. It feels, I don't know. It eats. This is a terrible example of what we would not do. It talks.

The other thing I can do here is I can have a response answer feedback. So I could say something like, OK, unfortunately this is incorrect. The correct answer is whatever because whatever. So you can do that for each answer.

Again, like the others, you could do your outcomes. Done. Let's see what it does. So students could read this and then answer the multiple choice question. And you could do multiple quiz options on that one. So what's your favorite?

Audience: So the stimulus is where you put in-- whoops. You put in the literature and the quiz.

Karin De Varennes: It's all together. You can also do a video, a picture. Any of those things.

Audience: That's called stimulus.

Karin De Varennes: Yeah. And I believe it has the Immersive Reader on that too, but let's check to make sure. Let's look at this preview. It's not going to let me go to student view at this point.

But let's say a student needs a hard copy of these assignments. Remember, if the submission is on paper, you can print the key with answers and then also print blank quiz. If for whatever reason a student might not have access to the internet or Wi-Fi, you can still use it by this printing. Before I go too heavy into quizzes, anyone have any questions on those assignments?

Do you want to have some time to make them or would you like to go on to discussions? We only have about 10 minutes left, so it's your time. OK. Anyone else have any things that you would like to do next? Again, it's your time, your very valuable time. So I don't want to fill it.

Audience: Discussions sound good.

Karin De Varennes: Discussions. OK. All right, let's go into discussions. So again, we can do an assignment with a graded quiz, a graded discussion, and a graded survey. So let's go back to our-- let's return. We'll go back. We'll leave student view. And I think I must have a--

So you can do discussions a couple of ways, get to them a couple of ways. You can go to the plus sign here. And beneath this carrot, you can hit Discussion. You could have a name. Getting to know your digestive system. When it's due. Any points. How about getting to know-- we wouldn't want people to know about our digestive systems. How about getting to know one another.

I'm going to just check on my more options. So for discussions, I can record by going to Studio. So if you're part of our cooperative with adult ed, you can use your own-- you can use this for free. It's a really great picture. I can either record. And again, great for English learners if they want to do an audio for you to listen, for you to have them listen in English.

But I could say something like-- start recording. Hi, my name is Karin. It is the name of the century and my mom didn't realize it was going to be so popular when she named me. Finish. And here it is. I could save the media and then use it. Where is my audio file?

I can also-- so if I go up to one of these buttons, I can do a link where maybe if I had them do a PowerPoint about themselves, they can link their PowerPoint. Maybe I want to do an image of what you look like. So I might say that in comparison to-- oh, I know. You asked somebody to compare themselves to an instrument. That seems to be the pictures I have right now. So I am like a cello. You could insert media that way. And you could also just have them write about themselves.

If you didn't know what this is, this is the accessibility checker. And it tells me that I need to have the correct alt text. I want it to be maybe-- if I want it to be an anonymous discussion, I can turn off any names, pictures, or a partial or full. However way want it to work.

And if I want to have the user post before they see anyone else's, I can click that. If I want to grade it, I can check that. Of course, for assignment, it would be graded. If you ungraded it, it would be just an activity. And if I want people to like it or be able to it, that's also a cool option. But you can also press that only graders can like and not other people. It's nice with adult ed, because we have greater flexibility with those choices.

I might want to just grade it as a five pointer or a complete incomplete. It's an assignment. Do I want to require peer reviews? Nah. Assign to everyone. There it is. And I'm going to save and publish. And it's yelling at me for some reason.

So this is what a student would see. And I would have to post them before I could reply. So then all the student would have to do is reply to the exchange calling it a discussion, which would be interesting. You feel like you look like a cello. I personally feel like I look like a guitar. Whatever the post is. Reply.

And from there, those discussions go right into your grading. You can view them split screen, inline. You can sort, you can expand threads of people talking. That, my friends, in a nutshell is a discussion. Anyone use discussion in different ways?

Audience: Yeah, but just purely text. Text editor. But this is a great idea to get things visual.

Karin De Varennes: I think just those of us that are visual love that and those that aren't are like, don't make me do that. Right? But so here it is. Getting to know one another. And your discussions, again, there's an index. You can tell who's given it. And then here's your plus another discussion. Did you want to go back over like here you can upload your image?

Audience: No, I see, I just never thought of doing it.

Karin De Varennes: Yeah. Well, we all have tons of lives. I thought it would be fun too if you could your favorite song or your favorite TikTok with this generation. You could upload your document. It's just so fun. Just so much that we can do with this. And that is a discussion. Anything else that you want to see then with assignments?

Audience: Somebody mentioned rubrics.

Karin De Varennes: Oh yeah. OK. So in an assignment, let's say that I wanted to add a rubric. So this is an example of a peer review practice assignment. So I just wanted to show you.

So at the bottom, you can add rubrics to any graded assignment. And they can be as easy as if you have all your learning outcomes, like per your section, like if you're all ESL or ABE or HSE, you can create rubrics and share them. If you're GED, you could just upload their writing rubrics, which I think is pretty handy. I'm going to leave student view. Go back.

So with a rubric, you can create your own rubric. You can add a rubric. You can delete a rubric. You can edit a rubric. And again, I'm not going with the prepared discussion. We're just going to kind of-- I just want to show you how easy it is. So if you wrote something like a title of--

OK. Let's say that we wanted to write a text submission, like a writing submission. Sentence writing rubric. I could find the outcome if my group has come up with one, like your outcomes, like your CASAS, any of those outcomes can be uploaded and handy. But I can also add a criterion, which description would be like the title. The long description would be sentence must have a subject, verb, adverb, and prepositional phrase. That's really hard.

And then here I can select my range. The three points is good job but missing something for three. I could put one, which I don't think I would ever do this, but I will write one. Review. Unfortunately did not meet the requirements. I can update it. And it's worth a full five.

So when you create an assignment where you're asking them to write a sentence, then you can add this rubric to that assignment. And when the person turns it in, all you have to do is highlight where they fell and it gets graded. And it's really lovely. And unfortunately, I don't have a quick example to show you of that though. Any questions?