Microsoft Teams & Canvas The Microsoft Teams integration with Canvas (also called Class Teams or Microsoft Teams classes) is available in all Canvas courses and allows instructors to create a team to chat and collaborate with their students – during and in-between classes. Students can engage real-time with others in the class (in-person or remote)
Hypothesis is a social annotation tool that enables students to collaboratively comment on or annotate online texts, such as webpages, online PDFs, digital articles, or even specific course files in Canvas. Hypothesis has scheduled three info sessions for Northwestern faculty and staff – 2 intros, and 1 for advanced users. Mark your calendars to join
NU Teaching and Learning Technologies team has created a Canvas dashboard that shows when students have assignments due in other other classes. This can help you determine when to place an exam or what day of the week would work best to make an assignment due. More info here: https://canvaspost.northwestern.edu/2020/08/18/new-time-zone-and-student-analytics-tools-in-canvas Get it: email canvas@northwestern.edu NU
NU Teaching and Learning Technologies team (who manages Canvas) has built a tool in Canvas that allows instructors to easily see which students are in different time zones from the instructor. NU Worldwide sorts students so that instructors can quickly view which time zones students have indicated in Canvas and use a time simulator to check
