Canvas Showcase Roundup
December 18 th was the second annual GSA Canvas Showcase! Members of the GSA staff community shared mince pies and a wide array of insights into some of the innovative ways in which Canvas is being used across the institution. The topics under discussion included: The ways in which Canvas has streamlined the process of student sign-ups and enrolments for elective courses; The lessons learned from inviting students to submit images for display in the Design Domain course; Some of the features of the Cross School course, including the embedding of Padlet images galleries, and the use of sections to assist with the functioning of the Attendance tool; The new Virtual Classroom tool (Collaborate), with a demonstration of using it for remote teaching at Forres. Collaborate allows distant learning that remains live, interactive, and face-to-face; Using Canvas as a launchpad into other social media and web spaces; The value of academic reading lists, which ...