Email Date:  December 3, 2018
From:  Canvas @ Yale Support Team
Audience:  All Spring 2019 Teaching Faculty
Subject:  Spring 2019 Course Sites Created in Canvas
NOTE:  An abridged version of this message was emailed to faculty - full text is included below.
Email Text:

Canvas @ Yale  |  Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning

Additional Information:

Spring 2019 Courses Have Been Created In Canvas

We invite you to visit your course site in Canvas to:

1. Post your syllabus in your course site’s “Syllabus” tool
2. Publish your course site.

Remember that course syllabi posted in a published Canvas course site will be become available to students in Yale Course Search within 2 hours.

Helpful Tips To Prepare For Spring 2019

• Canvas Syllabi will be available to students via Yale Course Search. To ensure that your syllabus is included in Yale Course Search, you must complete the following two steps:
  1. post your syllabus within your Canvas course site’s “Syllabus” tool and
  2. publish your course site.

  Syllabi posted in published courses will appear in the system within 2 hours.
   

• Reuse your previous Canvas course sites and/or migrated Classes*v2 course content. Check out our help article on how to copy course content from your previous Canvas courses and/or migrated Classes*v2 site into your Spring 2019 site.
   
• Use our Checklist to make sure you are on track for Spring 2019. Check out our Beginning of Term Checklist for ideas and strategies to get your fall course site prepared.
   
• Request your Umbrella Sites through our umbrella site request form. If you need an umbrella site for your course (What is an umbrella site?), complete ourumbrella site request form.
   
• Get face-to-face support with our Workshops & Drop-In Hours and One-on-One Consultations. Check out our Canvas event schedule  (updated events coming soon!) to register for one of our upcoming workshops or find our drop-in hour dates. If you can’t make it to one of our planned events, you can request a one-on-one consultation. We are here to help!

Spring 2019 Educational Technology Pilots

During Spring 2019, the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning is conducting a pilot of several Educational Technology tools - many of which integrate with Canvas.  Please click the links below for more information about these pilots and how you can participate.

• Gradescope - an online grading platform that helps accommodate large class grading and distributed grading.
• NoteBowl - a discussion board tool with custom auto-grading features and a Bulletin where students can post anonymously.
• PlayPosit - an interactive assessment tool that allows you to add quiz questions on top of a video.
• Poll Everywhere - an advanced polling and audience response system.
• Turnitin - a text matching, originality checker.
• VoiceThread - a collaboration tool that allows audio/video/text commenting on combinations of media and document artifacts.
• Mid-Semester Feedback - an alternative and optional tool for collecting anonymous student feedback during the middle of the semester.

Reminder - Access to v2*Vault (formerly Classes*v2)

The v2*Vault will be decommissioned on May 31, 2019.  You will continue to have access to the v2*Vault as a reference until then.   Please refer to our help documentation if you would like to create and download an archive of your v2 materials. 

Don’t forget, content from many Classes*v2 courses were automatically migrated to Canvas over the summer of 2017 - refer to our v2*Vault migration help documentation to find out what was transferred and how you can access and reuse your migrated content.