All blog posts from the IDEA Courseware Team.
Canvas can make administering and grading online exams easier, but how do you know which tool is right for your exam? When considering the type of exam you will be giving, it’s important to understand the features and limitations of the current assessment tools. New Quizzes Use New Quizzes as…Read More
The Courseware Team is launching our Spring 2023 webinar series! If you are interested in attending, register for a session. After each session, recordings will be shared with all registrants, so please register even if you can’t make it to the live session. Please contact the Courseware Team at courseware@wharton.upenn.edu…Read More 
The Courseware Team has been hosting a series of Zoom webinars for faculty in Fall of 2022. We're looking forward to bringing you more in 2023! Previous Webinars How to Have a Well-Designed Canvas Site Description: Improve the accessibility, navigation, and overall effectiveness of your course site with simple techniques…Read More As FeedbackFruits’ suite of both asynchronous and synchronous tools are used across undergraduate, MBA, Executive Education, and MBA Program for Executives (WEMBA) levels at Wharton, this blog post serves to point you in the right direction when selecting a tool for many different assignment types. The decision tree shown below…Read More
As we continue a hybrid approach to teaching and learning where much of the collaboration is remote, the search for educational technology tools that best meet this need while fostering course engagement for faculty and students alike is ongoing. One tool that serves to organize discussion threads, Q&As, and additional…Read More
Diversity and inclusion are central to Penn’s mission, and as such, the University pledges to ensure its online course materials are accessible to the widest array of students. Creating an accessible Canvas site is easy to do when you apply principles of good design. The following steps can help make…Read More
Beginning in November 2020 and continuing through spring 2021, the Courseware team held a series of webinars open to all Wharton instructors and teaching team members. Check out below to watch the full webinar videos. New Quizzes for Final Exams Learn how to build exams with New Quizzes. We cover…Read More
By Becky Moulder Modules are a great way to elevate your course design in Canvas and to organize content more effectively for students, particularly when a course is taught fully online. Think of Modules as building a table of contents for your course materials: You can group course materials and…Read More
By Matt Borlik Wharton Computing’s IDEA Courseware Team has implemented a new policy regarding the digital distribution of copyright-protected reading materials on Canvas. All copyrighted reading materials must be distributed through either Lippincott Library’s Course Reserve system, a Study.Net-issued course pack, or–in rare instances–a publisher-specific resource. Copyrighted materials may not…Read More
By Dylan Fenton With the shifting focus to an online teaching environment, you may be concerned about your courses lacking the kind of student-to-student interaction that make in-person classes so magical. That cross-pollination of ideas between students can still happen during virtual class meetings, but are there ways to create…Read More
