In This Email

• Quick Tip - Quiz Settings
  
• What's New with Webcourses@UCF
• Video Tip - LinkedIn Learning
• Zoom Tip - Zoom Updates
• Design with Quality in Mind - Resources for Improving Your Online Courses
  
• #ThriveOnline - Creating an Online Course … Can Be a Creative Act
• Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository - Call for Submissions
• Kelvin's Corner - Advancing Online Learning

Managing the release of quiz results to students can play a big part in the security of your exam. For example, you may not want students to see the correct answers for an exam until all students have taken the quiz. By default, Webcourses@UCF allows students to see which questions they got wrong and to view the correct answers immediately upon completing the quiz.

For the most enhanced security, it is best to uncheck the box to "Let Students See Their Quiz Response" at least until the quiz is closed.  To see all your quiz setting options, visit the Canvas Guide: What options can I set in a quiz?

Gradebook – View Ungraded as Zero

The Gradebook View menu includes the View Ungraded as 0 option, which is a visual change only and does not affect any grades. This setting allows instructors to view student grades as if all ungraded assignments were worth zero points. This setting also persists for the Individual View Gradebook. 

Gradebook - Import Final Grade Override Scores

This new feature is used in conjunction with an existing Gradebook feature faculty must turn on in Settings: Final Grade Override. This update allows instructors to modify the Override Score in the Gradebook by importing scores from a CSV file. After the import, changes to Final Grade Override scores will be reflected in the Gradebook history.

Rich Content Editor – Pretty HTML Editor

The Rich Content Editor includes a pretty HTML editor in addition to the raw HTML editor. This change provides an enhanced HTML experience for users. When using the Rich Content Editor, users can switch to the HTML editor by clicking the HTML editor icon. Watch the Canvas Feature Video for more information.

For more information about Canvas (Webcourses@UCF) updates, view the February 20, 2021 Canvas Release Notes.

In this video, you will learn how to embed LinkedIn Learning videos into your course. Similar to Vimeo and Youtube content, LinkedIn Learning videos can be embedded into Webcourses@UCF for easy access. For more information about LinkedIn Learning, visit UCF's Getting Started with LinkedIn Learning.

Zoom's strength lies in its simplicity and its compatibility with Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android when used in the browser.  Many performance problems in Zoom can be fixed or avoided by keeping your Zoom software current with the latest updates.  To check for updates, sign into your Zoom desktop application, click your profile picture, then click Check for Updates. If your software is current, you will get a “You are up to date” message with the version number.  

Visit the Zoom Help Center for more information. If you need any assistance using Zoom, contact Webcourses@UCF Support. 

Want to make your online or blended course great for students but not sure where to begin? The Center for Distributed Learning has resources for you!

• Use the Quality online course design items as a checklist for best practices of designing (or improving) your online course.

Want more information for how to implement each Quality design item? Our Design With Quality in Mind series of posts is a growing collection of articles that suggest tips and provide examples for implementing the Quality and High-Quality course design items.

In today’s Kelvin’s corner, we recommend this episode from the podcast Tea for Teaching, called Advancing Online Learning. Guests Kevin Kelly and Todd Zakrajsek, authors of "Advancing Online Teaching: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments", discuss how universal design principles can be used to provide learning equity and human connections in our online classes. 

Kelvin Thompson is the Executive Director for the Center for Distributed Learning. He is always finding, sharing, recommending interesting and insightful resources about teaching and learning.