Canvas and Zoom Technical Tips

Zoom

Schedule course meetings (lectures, office hours) through Canvas>Zoom.

  • Give them informative titles "Live Lecture" not "PSC001"

  • These will automatically be added to the Canvas Calendar

  • The students just click the link to join the meeting. They do not need to know the meeting ID

  • Set cloud recording - it has worked great (you don't have to remember to turn it on)


Instructions for using PowerPoint Presenter View with only one monitor


Awww shucks - why does it work like that?

  • There are different settings in Canvas>Zoom and ucdavisdss.zoom.us and you really need to go to both versions to get the settings 'right'

  • Each Instructor or TA must schedule their own Zoom times - you can't be in more than one place at a time and 'alternate host' doesn't release the primary host.

  • If you change a meeting - the changes will not automatically update the Canvas Calendar. Be sure to keep the Calendar clean and accurate

  • Zoom always starts on the hour - there is no way to say 12:10

  • There is no way to release a Zoom meeting in Canvas to a subset of the students - it is all or none

  • You can 'broadcast a message to all breakout rooms' but the message is fleeting. Try copying the message before you send it and send it every 10 seconds 3 or 4 times in a row.

  • Once you create breakout rooms you can reuse them but not increase the number of rooms - always create as many as may need.

  • The Zoom app will not show you your 'upcoming meetings' for meetings scheduled through Canvas.

Canvas > Quizzes

    • Accommodations (increased time): You can manage the time allowed for individual students after the quiz is published to accommodate SDC time extensions.

    • Quiz Grading: All student answers can be downloaded as a .csv from Canvas Quiz (statistics > student analysis report). Grading from this .csv can be quicker than using SpeedGrader but will not allow you to give item-by-item feedback to students.

    • Question Banks.
      +NewQuestionGroup > Link to Question Bank > Pick x Question > Worth y points.

      • To deliver each student a subset of the bank and randomize the order of the questions

      • Or to repeat a question (like the honesty pledge) on multiple quizzes

Canvas > Content

Use Pages to organize your course into weeks or topics

You can easily embed your video.ucdavis.edu material in Canvas. Click the little 'v' (on the toolbar next to YouTube) > Embed Kaltura Media and choose your video.

Pre-Flight Checklist

• Open Canvas in a browser

• Open PPT with your lecture deck and any landing site deck

• iClicker Cloud

– Start Class in iClicker

• Open the Canvas>Zoom room 10 minutes before start of lecture

• Share 2nd Desktop

• Start the landing site deck

• Participants… More>

– Check that ‘play sound on entry and exit’ is not activated

– Mute on entry

• Set Chat to ‘Everyone publicly and privately’ for the 10 minutes before class starts.

• Hover on TAs name in Participants and ‘make co-host’

• Turn on your mic and video. Let them know that you will be turning the Chat to host only

• Set Zoom Chat to ‘host only’

• Have a clock visible somewhere else.

If using iPhone as doc cam:

• iPhone

  • set display to ‘never’ auto-lock

  • set airplane mode

  • open camera

  • take photo of blank template