Week 1 - Set Your Classes up for Success

The faculty message for the week of August 26th, 2024 highlights communication tools and encourages faculty to properly set up their gradebooks. Additionally, it provides guidance on handling extra credit and grading schemes.

This message was shown to faculty in Canvas from August 26h, 2024 to August 30th, 2024.

Greetings!

This message is the first in this semester’s series of Canvas tips and tricks from the Technology & Learning Program. We send weekly guidance and reminders based on what your colleagues (and perhaps you!) have been asking.

The start of a new term is one of the most stressful times for your students (and perhaps you!). This week, we’re sharing the tools you have to make an impact with your students and set them on the right track for the weeks ahead.

Communicate with your Students

Announcements, Inbox, Discussions, Pronto (like Slack or Discord), and email! Learn more about communication options.

See how one Chico State professor engages students w/ Pronto

IMPORTANT! Gradebook Set-Up

• Download student rosters with email in New Analytics.
• Set your Grading Scheme to match your syllabus.
• No one wants students to have an inflated sense of their grade. For missing assignments, create an automatic policy now or enter 0s as you go. 
• Wait till the end of semester to create "drop the lowest x quiz scores" rules.
• Review your extra credit options before offering to students and wait till end of semester to enter it. No, seriously. Look into this first. In Canvas, it is complicated.

Need help? The “Help” button is at the bottom left in Canvas, or drop into the TLP Zoom Lab.

Cheers,
Your TLP and Learning Technologies Team
Claudine, Marjorie, Jim, josh, Christine, Allison, Alex, and Miroslav