Did you know you can tailor your course navigation so students can only see and access certain navigation links?
Canvas has great documentation on how to hide, enable, and reorder different course navigation links like announcements, modules, pages, people, grades, and more. Instructions for managing course navigation links can be found on Canvas’s community site here.
Please reach out to the Help Desk if you have any questions!
This week’s Tech Tip is for students. Ever see an icon in your grades, and you’re not sure what it means? Our Canvas Gradebook Icons MediaSpace video will discuss icons that indicate when an assignment is graded or ungraded or when there are extra details about your grade.
You can also click through the slides used for this video.
If you want more information about Canvas grading icons, please visit Canvas’ complete grading icon guide.
Making groups within your course in Canvas is a great way to facilitate group projects, collaboration, and participation. Please watch our video tutorial to learn how to make and edit groups in Canvas, what the student view of groups looks like, and more!
You can view our Group Work in Canvas walk-through video here.
Some important things to note about groups in Canvas:
Please reach out to the Help Desk if you have any questions!
Our Canvas Tech Tip for this week is about how to share class recordings on Canvas! You can view our sharing class recordings video walk-through here.
Please reach out with any questions you may have!
In order to add a profile picture to your Canvas account you would follow these steps.
After logging into Canvas, you will see a sidebar on the left side of the screen. When you click Account it will expand the smaller menu seen below, choose Settings.
The Settings will look like this:
Click on the circle at the top next to your name where your photo will go.
Clicking this circle will extend this menu of options where you can choose to either Upload a Picture from your computer or you can Take a Picture with your webcam.
When you’ve loaded a photo into Canvas you will be able to adjust how your photo looks in the profile picture circle. Once you’ve adjusted it to your liking, remember to hit Save.
Once you’ve saved and refreshed your window, your new profile picture will appear.
When you log into your Canvas account you are able to add your pronouns in your settings.
Begin by clicking Account in the sidebar on the left.
It will extend this menu where you will select Settings.
When your settings are opened, on the right you will have the option to Edit Settings.
Once you’ve opened your settings to edits, you will have a drop down menu with options for Pronouns.
Once you’ve selected your pronouns, remember at the bottom to save any changes you’ve made to your profile by clicking Update Settings.
Once you’ve saved the changes you’ve made to your profile, your selected pronouns will appear by your name. 
As mentioned last week, only instructors who have opted in to be early adopters of Canvas will have their course(s) on Canvas in the fall.
After an instructor expressed their dislike of the lack of interactivity in their online course, the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) responded with ways to add interactivity to online classes, specifically when using asynchronous videos.
Some of the highlights include breaking the videos up and adding them as parts of a Moodle quiz where they are broken up by questions or using Illinois Media Space to make the video itself interactive.