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Working with course rooms in Canvas

Strengthen your use of course rooms in Canvas and promote student learning with these practical tips and recommendations. For example, how to create closeness in the digital classroom, communicate with students without using email lists, take advantage of the co-authoring features in OneDrive, and track student progression through the course.

Tips when working with your course room in Canvas

Here you will find some tips that you may find helpful when working with your course room in Canvas. Among other things, you can read about how to create closeness in the digital classroom, how to introduce yourself and how to favourite mark courses and set notifications.

Tips when working with your course room in Canvas

Recommended ways to communicate in Canvas

To facilitate the spreading of information to students, you should use the Canvas tools "Announcements" and "Inbox", especially for one-way communication. Here we explains the differences in usage between them and why you should avoid email lists.

Recommended ways to communicate in Canvas

OneDrive for co-writing

Enabling students to co-write and comment on each other's texts is a common feature in courses, and this method benefits learning. Since using Google services is not allowed for security reasons, KTH refers to Microsoft OneDrive. OneDrive offers many opportunities and features for co-writing.

OneDrive for co-writing

Following the students through the course

You can follow the students’ implementation in the course in several ways. Here you will find a summary of the functions that you can use for course follow-up. We have divided the functions in three different areas: Monitoring learning progress, interact with students, and overview of the course.

Following the students through the course