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How does your course appear in the Canvas app?
The students often use their mobile phones to view and sometimes work on their Canvas courses. As a teacher, it can be useful to know how your course is experienced in the Canvas app.
Live recording of "maktbarometern 2023"
The Media Academy presented the results of this year's Maktbarometer.
Upgrading Our Hybrid Classrooms
We are about to start an exciting project to upgrade our hybrid classrooms.
News from the Digital Examination project
A demo exam is now being launched in Inspera to reduce students' stress before digital exams, while a new exam hall is being constructed, and pilot projects are underway to broaden and improve the digital examination opportunities.
Reflection questions in your video at HV Play
The video pauses and the student is given a question to reflect upon before continuing to watch the video.
New feature in Canvas! Submit for student
A new feature for the autumn in Canvas is that now teachers can submit assignments on behalf of students.
New slideshow in Padlet!
Padlet is not just a collaboration tool but also serves excellently as a presentation tool!
Organize your dashboard in Canvas
With favorite marking, you can decide which courses are displayed on the Dashboard.
Hidden grading becomes the default
One of the updates for the autumn Canvas courses is that hidden grading will become the default for assignment submissions. Teaching staff have long desired for the grading of assignment submissions to be automatically hidden, and now the change is here!
Modified course menu in Canvas
The survey Student barometer, showed that courses in Canvas are perceived as difficult to navigate. As part of the effort to make it easier for students, the course menu will be modified. This will be available in the autumn Canvas courses.
Successful pilots for digital in-hall exams!
In June, the first exam pilots took place in the Digital Examination project. A total of 97 aspiring students from 5 courses participated in the new B104 hall. The students took their exams using the new examination system, Inspera.
Podcasts for lazy summer days
Time to go on vacation? Take the opportunity to enjoy in the hammock with entertaining and educational listening.
Updated Canvas guides in English
A lot has happened in Canvas since it was first introduced at Högskolan Väst in 2018. Therefore, we are now releasing a new version of the Canvas course about Canvas. Since the course is often used as an encyclopedia, the name has been changed to Canvas Guider. The cour...
Student activity with the unknown submission type
Canvas has several different submission types for an assignment. The most common is to upload a file. One of the lesser known is student annotation where students highlight, draw and comment on a document.
A new security solution is offered in Zoom meetings
Zoom has launched a new encryption for increased security in e-meetings, End-to-end encryption (E2EE)