Tech Tip Tuesday

• Archiving Google Classroom Classes
• Canvas Tutorials Galore
• Sam Kary Part 5
• Before you leave for summer: One Last Form...ok Two, but one is anonymous so I had to split them :)

Some important housekeeping tips before you close out your courses for the year.

Unlike Google Classroom, you have a lot more freedom in Canvas to make your classes look exactly how you want. With that being said, for a lot of us, that means staring at a blank "canvas" for far too long, trying to decide how we want our class set up. Now that Google Documents and Slides are so easily embedded into a Canvas Page, we can design, beautify, and make our pages much more functional for our students as easy as making a Google Doc. Watch my video below to see how to do this.

I also have worked with Canvas and got some best practice tutorials from them to help us make our courses more engaging and formatted more effectively for students and ourselves.

Check out the video links and slides below. Each one is a full tutorial created by our contact at Canvas to show us ways to improve our Canvas courses:

Best Practices for Course Design

• Slides

Creating an Engaging Learning Environment for Canvas

• Slides

Increasing Collaboration in Canvas

• Slides

Notes From the Video: For a Google Doc you have to add some html code to tell Canvas how big to make your page, if you embed a Google Slide, you can skip this step.

The embed code looks like this below.

Change this:

<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSwY2bVihR1AC1Gz9Fw_Dg_xDwEQJn3mBWM4-LBYG9Di-q5D2Ap0K5vZRUOr92_J_shm5rlANoIgoNz/pub?embedded=true"></iframe>

To this:

<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSwY2bVihR1AC1Gz9Fw_Dg_xDwEQJn3mBWM4-LBYG9Di-q5D2Ap0K5vZRUOr92_J_shm5rlANoIgoNz/pub?embedded=true" width="100%" height="1100"></iframe>

After the true" copy and paste the bolded section. You can adjust how large you want your page. In the video I used a height of 600 and students had to scroll. When I increased that to 1100 they didn't have to scroll inside a window, the whole page fit onto Canvas.

Sam Kary in Part 5 of his 6 part series.

In this video he genuinely shares how anyone can integrate technology and create an innovative classroom regardless of skill or comfort level. He himself wasn't a huge proponent of integrating new tech just for the sake of it being new. That's what makes Sam my favorite coach to follow. He gives practical examples for educators at all levels. He then talks about how integrating technology with a purpose will transform your instruction in a way that will make you never want to go back.