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Fall 2022 Faculty Webinars

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

Seven Steps for Making Your Canvas Course More Accessible

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

Courseware Team Presents: Lunchtime Webinars

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

Using Modules to Organize Course Content

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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

Increase Student Engagement With FeedbackFruits

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

A Guide to Publishing in Canvas

By Neil McGarry Canvas has many features, but some functions cut across all of them. One of those features is publishing. Publishing in Canvas allows you to make content available to students. Unpublishing in Canvas makes content not visible to students. Sites themselves must be published before students can access…Read More

When Course Materials Appear on Websites – and What Faculty Can Do About It

By Rob Ditto Unfortunately, faculty might find that their course materials appear on “study resources” websites like Course Hero or ULoop. This is despite the fact that websites like these have no relationship to Wharton or the University. And our content partners, such as Study.Net and Lippincott Library, don’t share…Read More

New Quizzes in Canvas

By Becky Moulder In Fall 2018, Canvas announced that a new quiz tool was available for all its users called New Quizzes. Now, faculty have yet another way to assess student learning. So far, a handful of Wharton faculty members have taken advantage of the tool’s new features. These features…Read More

Group Filtering in Canvas’s New Gradebook

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By Rob Ditto A version of this post first appeared on the Canvas blog under the title, Groups in New Gradebook for Professional Education. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania uses every feature of Canvas LMS that supports our group project-oriented curriculum. While grading group assignments has been…Read More

Key Canvas Updates for Fall 2019

This is the first post on the new IDEA Courseware Team Blog. On the blog, we’ll publish info about emerging instructional technology, strategies, hacks, and more. Check back often for new posts! We’re excited to bring you many changes to Canvas in the Fall 2019 semester. We think these changes…Read More